| I often go out to the countryside to
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| | or a small fountain in such an area is
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| visit my mother. Her home is like a
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| | much appreciated by the wee folk.
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| magnet; it draws you in from the street.
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| | Leave out a food offering over night.
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| Walking up to her porch, one cannot
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| | Fairies especially love dairy products,
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| mistake how the air sparkles. Even the
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| | bread, cakes, and cookies. Don't despair
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| cares of the world, which have been
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| | if in the morning it doesn't look like
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| weighing down your shoulders, seem to
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| | the meal has been eaten. Fairies are able
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| melt away into the earth along the
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| | to extract the essence of food without
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| pathway like rainwater. I am not the only
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| | physically eating it. Food should be
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| one drawn to mother's house. Several
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| | discarded after a day or two, since it
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| years ago mother came upon an old,
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| | will have little nutritional value left
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| out-of-print fairy book at a library book
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| | for the fairy. If an animal should
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| sale. Within these pages she learned how
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| | approach the food don't chase it away!
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| to attract fairies. Since then, her home
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| | Sometimes a shy fairy will assume the
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| has been the refuge of human and fairy
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| | shape of an animal to accept its present.
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| alike. The following suggestions will
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| | Fairies love water. Fountains, bird
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| help you create a fairy-welcoming
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| | baths, ponds, and streams will all
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| atmosphere in your home:
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| | attract fairies.
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| The most effective way to invite fairies
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| | Abodes of various types are appreciated
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| to your home is to plant their favorite
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| | by fairies. Using rocks, caves can be
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| flowers. Fairies share the same habitat
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| | made at the base of rose bushes. A
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| as hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees.
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| | bird-house can be easily adapted for
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| Flowers that attract these creatures will
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| | fairy use by adding bright colors,
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| also attract fairies.Bluebells, foxglove,
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| | dollhouse furniture, and glitter to the
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| forget-me-nots, heather, hollyhocks,
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| | inside. Toadstools and mushrooms (real or
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| lilacs, lilies, marigolds, pansies,
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| | fake) are also a favorite of the wee
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| peonies, primrose, and roses are flowers
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| | folk. Colored stones and crystals,
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| beloved by the wee folk.
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| | especially in a water-filled bird-bath,
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| In addition to flowers, clover, ferns,
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| | will attract fairies.
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| and thyme are plants especially
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| | Set aside a table top or a corner for an
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| attractive to fairies. Oak trees hold
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| | altar, where you can leave offerings for
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| special powers for fairies.
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| | your fairy friends in a basket. Offerings
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| Since fairies are sensitive, it is best
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| | may be food, flowers, herbs, pretty
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| not to refer to them directly. They find
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| | leaves, stones, or anything else you
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| the name "fairy" particularly offensive.
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| | think your fairy might like.
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| If you must talk about them, you may use
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| | Keep your home reasonably tidy, as
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| the terms: wee folk, good folk, or the
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| | fairies hate a mess.
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| gentry.
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| | Most important of all, you must cultivate
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| Fairies enjoy both well-manicured and
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| | a sense of reverence, wonder, and fun-as
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| wild areas in gardens. It is good idea to
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| | these are qualities necessary to befriend
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| reserve a special corner in your garden
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| | a fairy.
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| for fairy use. Placing a special statue
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