When I think of dust, I think of housework and not fairies. But apparently fairies have a special kind of dust that can make you fly. Just like Tinker Bell. Some brands of fairy dust also permit you to shrink and hide. As a response to Fight-or-Flight, fairy dust covers the flight option well. However, the chronic activation of the “Fight-of-Flight” response can wear one down. For this reason, the dust must be used with caution.

Now fairies can’t fly without the dust and what good is a fairy that can’t get up off the ground? And because this dust is so important, there are specially selected dust-keeping fairies who have the responsibility of process and rationing out the precious dust.

Having some fairy dust to throw around when needed could dramatically help the quality of my daily life. The minute someone starts exasperating my bio-rhythms, all I have to do is blow some dust in their face to send them away.

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Related: Brakes, Daphine Du Maurier and Peter Pan + Mermans and Mermaids, Hans Christen Andersen in Rome +

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was Fairy Fixated. He travelled extensively for his spiritualist missionary work. In 1922, he published The Coming of the Fairies describing his belief in them.

Doyle had been taken in by the Cottingley Fairies and truly believed the photos taken by cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright to be real  +   The two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle +

The Armistice Day Series – The Spirit Photography of Ada Deane +

Metamorphoses by Ovid is a collection of stories about transformation +

Grimms’ Fairy Tales + What-the-Dickens: the story of a rogue tooth fairy by Gregory Maguire, read free on Archive HERE +

A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures by Katharine Mary Briggs on Archive HERE + Madame d’Aulnoy + A History of Fairy Dust

Fairy Flax is a petite herbaceous plant that can grow up to 25 cm in height. It’s from this delicate plant with little white flowers that the fairies use to make fabric for the clothes that they wear.

making fairy dust + buy fairy dust with these ingredients +

Fight or Flight, Understanding the stress response  +

Change, The paradoxes and possibilities of changing, the continuous creative act of seeing clearly, art at the border of the mathematical and the miraculous +

On my Fairy Bookshelf: ‘Prisoner in Fairyland’ +