Fairy, fey or faery ?

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Fairy
The original fairies, or faeries, bestowed gifts upon newborn children, such as beauty, wealth and kindness. Fairies can only be seen clearly by animals and sometimes by humans. If one is fortunate enough, one might catch a fleeting glimpse. Fairies use their power (known as ‘glamour’) to enable a human to see them. By looking through a self-bored stone (a stone in which a hole has been made by tumbling in the waters of a brook; one can see fairies. The rulers of the fairies are Queen Titania and her consort Prince Oberon.

Other words for fairies are: fae, faerie, faery, the Little People, the Green Men, the Good Folk and the Lordly Ones. The name is probably a combination of the words fae “friend” and eire “green.” So Faerie means “Green Friend.”