Book of Tides

Fae

Offerings to the Fae:

What to give: faery cakes, baked goods, honey, milk, oats, nuts, seeds, fruits, faery wine, crystals, potted flowers, earrings, coins, nature safe art

Actions to keep up: clean litter, maintain wildlife feeders, plant seeds, sing, dance, take care of the earth, clean, write poetry

Do NOT Give: synthetic materials, glitter, himalayan salt, cut flowers, chocolate

Where to put offerings: by natural springs, rivers, creeks, parks, subtle but hidden, windowsill by plant, forest, garden

Don't: Don't say thank you say you appreciate them, don't spy on them, never give them your name, never eat their food, don't step in a fairy ring

The Fae are powerful beings of a semi divine nature who possibly decended from God's and Goddesses not like those in fairytales. According to some people they were the prototypes that human race evolved from.

They make themselves known to witches over respect for nature.

Both have power to influence the weather.

When you work with nature you technically work with them too.

Tree Fae: Every tree has a fairy resident when the tree dies the fairy leaves.

Fairy Witchcraft combines neopaganism with the fairy faith. The fairy faith is both ancient folkloric tradition of the fae and the contemporary version that began in 1970s

Faery Wicca draws upon Irish myths of the Tuatha dé Danann and emphasizes fairy lore in it's practices

Christian beliefs classify fairies as demonstrated, some as fallen angels