Post by adiosToreador on Oct 28, 2010 9:26:29 GMT -6
aLRIGHT SO RUMMAGING THROUGH MY RESPITEBLOCK, aND, uHHH, mY GRUBTOP'S OLD FILES AND HARD RESIN DRIVES, i ACTUALLY FOUND SOME ALTERNIAN POEMS ABOUT FAIRIES AND PIXIES,
sO i THOUGHT i SHOULD PROBABLY MAYBE MAKE A THREAD, aBOUT IT SO i COULD SHARE IT WITH EVERYBODY,
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(i'M GOING TO BE PASTING THIS STRAIGHT FROM, a REALLY OLD TEXT FILE SO i'M NOT SURE IF THE QUIRK WILL MAKE IT THROUGH, i DID NOT WRITE THIS BY THE WAY,)
Pixies are variously described in folklore and fiction.
Pixies are said to be uncommonly beautiful, though there are some called pixies who have distorted and strange appearances. One pixie is said to have some goat-like features. Another is said to be coltish in character.
They are often ill-clothed or naked. In 1890, William Trolling noted a pixie's preference for bits of finery: "Indeed, a sort of weakness for finery exists among them, and a piece of ribbon appears to be ... highly prized by them." Lack of fashion sense has been taken by Rashell Vinne, a modern fantasy writer, to mean that pixies generally go unclothed, though they are sensitive to troll need for covering. In Vinne's book, the main character, a pixie wriggler, delights in ribbons made by her custodian.
Some pixies are said to steal wrigglers or to lead travellers astray. This seems to be a cross-over from fairy mythology and not originally attached to pixies; in 1850, Trhollmas Keight observed that much of Alternian pixie mythology may have originated from fairy myth. Pixies are said to reward consideration and punish neglect on the part of larger trolls, for which Keight gives examples. By their presence they bring blessings to those who are fond of them.
Pixies are drawn to hoofbeasts, riding them for pleasure and making tangled ringlets in the manes of those hoofbeasts they ride. They are "great explorers familiar with the caves of the ocean, the hidden sources of the streams and the recesses of the land."
Some find pixies to have a troll origin or to "partake of troll nature", in distinction to fairies whose mythology is traced to immaterial and malignant spirit forces. In some discussions pixies are presented as wingless, pygmy-like creatures, however this is probably a later accretion to the mythology.
One Alternian scholar took pixie myth seriously enough to state his belief that "Pixies were evidently a smaller race, and, from the greater obscurity of the … tales about them, I believe them to have been an earlier race."
Literary interpretations
Many Grubaissance era poets saw them as magical beings. An example is Sawmuhel Thralltorn Peck: in his poem The Pixies he writes:
‘Tis said their forms are tiny, yet
All troll ills they can subdue,
Or with a wand or amulet
Can win a flushed heart for you;
And many a blessing know to stew
To make to spritlock bright;
Give honour to the dainty crew,
The Pixies are abroad tonight.
The late 19th century Alternian poet Nora Trolsson summarized pixie mythology fairly well in a poem entitled The Pixies. She gathered all the speculations and myths into verse:
Have e’er you seen the Pixies, the fold not blest or banned?
They walk upon the waters; they sail upon the land,
They make the green grass greener where’er their footsteps fall,
The wildest hind in the forest comes at their call.
They steal from bolted linneys, they milk the key at grass,
The maids are kissed a-milking, and no one hears them pass.
They flit from byre to stable and ride unbroken foals,
They seek out troll lovers to win them souls.
The Pixies know no sorrow, the Pixies feel no fear,
They take no care for harvest or seedtime of the sweep;
Age lays no finger on them, the reaper time goes by
The Pixies, they who change not, grow old or die.
The Pixies though they love us, behold us pass away,
And are not sad for flowers they gathered yesterday,
To-day has crimson foxglove.
If purple hose-in-hose withered last night
To-morrow will have its rose.
She touches on all the essentials, including even more modern accretions. Pixies are "in-between", not cursed by Gog or especially blessed. They do the unexpected, they bless the land, and are forest creatures whom other wild creatures find alluring and non-threatening. They love trolls, taking some for mates, and are nearly ageless. They are winged, flitting from place to place.
The Pixie Day tradition in Sawmuhel Trollor Kolerid’s homenest of Trollery St Mary in East Alternia was the inspiration for his poem Song of the Pixies.
The Grubaissance era writer Mary Elizabent Withercomb divided pixies in to tribes according to personality and deeds. Troll Eliza Gray suggested that pixies and fairies were distinct species.
In modern fiction the fantasy author Rashell de Vinne is faithful to pixie mythology, weaving many of its elements into her work. Other writers pay tribute to pixies by at least using the name, though they often stray from the mythology.
sO i THOUGHT i SHOULD PROBABLY MAYBE MAKE A THREAD, aBOUT IT SO i COULD SHARE IT WITH EVERYBODY,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(i'M GOING TO BE PASTING THIS STRAIGHT FROM, a REALLY OLD TEXT FILE SO i'M NOT SURE IF THE QUIRK WILL MAKE IT THROUGH, i DID NOT WRITE THIS BY THE WAY,)
Pixies are variously described in folklore and fiction.
Pixies are said to be uncommonly beautiful, though there are some called pixies who have distorted and strange appearances. One pixie is said to have some goat-like features. Another is said to be coltish in character.
They are often ill-clothed or naked. In 1890, William Trolling noted a pixie's preference for bits of finery: "Indeed, a sort of weakness for finery exists among them, and a piece of ribbon appears to be ... highly prized by them." Lack of fashion sense has been taken by Rashell Vinne, a modern fantasy writer, to mean that pixies generally go unclothed, though they are sensitive to troll need for covering. In Vinne's book, the main character, a pixie wriggler, delights in ribbons made by her custodian.
Some pixies are said to steal wrigglers or to lead travellers astray. This seems to be a cross-over from fairy mythology and not originally attached to pixies; in 1850, Trhollmas Keight observed that much of Alternian pixie mythology may have originated from fairy myth. Pixies are said to reward consideration and punish neglect on the part of larger trolls, for which Keight gives examples. By their presence they bring blessings to those who are fond of them.
Pixies are drawn to hoofbeasts, riding them for pleasure and making tangled ringlets in the manes of those hoofbeasts they ride. They are "great explorers familiar with the caves of the ocean, the hidden sources of the streams and the recesses of the land."
Some find pixies to have a troll origin or to "partake of troll nature", in distinction to fairies whose mythology is traced to immaterial and malignant spirit forces. In some discussions pixies are presented as wingless, pygmy-like creatures, however this is probably a later accretion to the mythology.
One Alternian scholar took pixie myth seriously enough to state his belief that "Pixies were evidently a smaller race, and, from the greater obscurity of the … tales about them, I believe them to have been an earlier race."
Literary interpretations
Many Grubaissance era poets saw them as magical beings. An example is Sawmuhel Thralltorn Peck: in his poem The Pixies he writes:
‘Tis said their forms are tiny, yet
All troll ills they can subdue,
Or with a wand or amulet
Can win a flushed heart for you;
And many a blessing know to stew
To make to spritlock bright;
Give honour to the dainty crew,
The Pixies are abroad tonight.
The late 19th century Alternian poet Nora Trolsson summarized pixie mythology fairly well in a poem entitled The Pixies. She gathered all the speculations and myths into verse:
Have e’er you seen the Pixies, the fold not blest or banned?
They walk upon the waters; they sail upon the land,
They make the green grass greener where’er their footsteps fall,
The wildest hind in the forest comes at their call.
They steal from bolted linneys, they milk the key at grass,
The maids are kissed a-milking, and no one hears them pass.
They flit from byre to stable and ride unbroken foals,
They seek out troll lovers to win them souls.
The Pixies know no sorrow, the Pixies feel no fear,
They take no care for harvest or seedtime of the sweep;
Age lays no finger on them, the reaper time goes by
The Pixies, they who change not, grow old or die.
The Pixies though they love us, behold us pass away,
And are not sad for flowers they gathered yesterday,
To-day has crimson foxglove.
If purple hose-in-hose withered last night
To-morrow will have its rose.
She touches on all the essentials, including even more modern accretions. Pixies are "in-between", not cursed by Gog or especially blessed. They do the unexpected, they bless the land, and are forest creatures whom other wild creatures find alluring and non-threatening. They love trolls, taking some for mates, and are nearly ageless. They are winged, flitting from place to place.
The Pixie Day tradition in Sawmuhel Trollor Kolerid’s homenest of Trollery St Mary in East Alternia was the inspiration for his poem Song of the Pixies.
The Grubaissance era writer Mary Elizabent Withercomb divided pixies in to tribes according to personality and deeds. Troll Eliza Gray suggested that pixies and fairies were distinct species.
In modern fiction the fantasy author Rashell de Vinne is faithful to pixie mythology, weaving many of its elements into her work. Other writers pay tribute to pixies by at least using the name, though they often stray from the mythology.
