A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.

Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin, but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a Christian tradition, as deities in Pagan belief systems, as spirits of the dead, as prehistoric precursors to humans, or as spirits of nature.

The label of fairy has at times applied only to specific magical creatures with human appearance, magical powers, and a penchant for trickery. At other times it has been used to describe any magical creature, such as goblins and gnomes. Fairy has at times been used as an adjective, with a meaning equivalent to "enchanted" or "magical". It is also used as a name for the place these beings come from, the land of Fairy.

A recurring motif of legends about fairies is the need to ward off fairies using protective charms. Common examples of such charms include church bells, wearing clothing inside out, four-leaf clover, and food. Fairies were also sometimes thought to haunt specific locations, and to lead travelers astray using will-o'-the-wisps. Before the advent of modern medicine, fairies were often blamed for sickness, particularly tuberculosis and birth deformities.

A list of fairies found on this wiki can be found here.

All published appearances of Fairies from before January 1, )-(95)}} are in the public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* Lanval (lai), by Marie de France (12th century)
* The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser (1590)
* The Scottish History of James IV (1590)
* Nymphidia (1627)
* Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests (1628)
* Parnassus (1657)
* Faust I (1770s)
* Oberon (poem), by Christoph Martin Wieland (1780–96)
* Holger Danske (1789)
* Queen Mab (1813)
* Trilby; or, The Fairy of Argyll, by Charles Nodier (1822)
* Oberon (1825–26)
* The Fairy Mythology, by Thomas Keightley (1828)
* The Tale of the Nutcracker (1844)
* Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by James Orchard Halliwell (1845)
* The Mad Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (1845)
* “The Fairies of the Caldon Low,” by Mary Howitt (1847)
* “The Fairies” (poem), by William Allingham (1850)
* The Rose and the Ring (1854)
* The Water Babies, by Rev. Charles Kingsley (serialized 1862–1863)
* Fairies of Our Garden, by E. H. Watson (1866)
* “Christmas Greetings” (poem), by Lewis Carroll (1869)
* Amy’s Wish and What Came of It, by Mrs. George Tylee (1870)
* Birdie and His Fairy Friends, by Margaret T. Canby (1873)
* The Elves’ Gift: The Veritable Narrative of Thomas Graspen (1874)
* Fairy Guardians, by F. Willoughby (1875)
* Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English Writers, by Joseph Ritson and James Halliwell‐Phillipps (1875)
* “The Reel Fairies,” by Ennis Graham (Mrs. Molesworth) (1875)
* Fairy Bells, and What They Tolled Us (1876)
* The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881)
* “The Christmas Fairies,” by M. E. K. (Dec. 1882) – story in St. Nicholas
* Fairy’s Album (1884)
* Brownies and Bogles, by Louise Imogen Guiney (1888)
* Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll (1889)
* The Flight of a Pigeon and Other Stories, by Arthur Henry and Maude Wood Henry (1894)
* My Own Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang (1895)
* The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun, by Ernest Vincent Wright (1896)
* Fairy Tales (3 vol., 1897, 1898 and 1903) – Fairy Soap advertising booklets
* Fairy Art Booklet (1899)– Fairy Soap advertising booklet
* The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
* Peter Pan, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904)
* Queen Zixi of Ix (1905)
* “How Winnie Hatched the Little Rooks,” by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1906)
* North Cornwall Fairies and Legends, by Enys Tregarthen (1906)
* Puck of Pook’s Hill, by Rudyard Kipling (1906)
* The Cozy Lion, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1907)
* The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo, by William M. Thackeray (1907)
* Tooth Fairy (1908)
* Down Spider Web Lane, by Mary Dickerson Donahey (1909)
* Fairies I Have Met a.k.a. My Days with the Fairies, by Maud Margaret Key Stawell (1910)
* Rewards and Fairies, by Rudyard Kipling (1910)
* The Magic Aeroplane, by Mrs. L. R. S. Henderson (1911)
* The Now‐a‐days Fairy Book, by Anna Alice Chapin (1911)
* The Sea Fairies, by L. Frank Baum (1911)
* Shadow Fairies and Others, by Ruth MacFarland Furniss (1911)
* The Fairies and the Christmas Child, by Lilian Gask (1912)
* Sky Island, by L. Frank Baum (1912)
* The Children’s Blue Bird a.k.a. The Blue Bird for Children, by Georgette Leblanc (1913) – adaptation of play below, includes the fairy Bérylune
* Korean Folk Tales, by Im Bang and Yi Ryuk (1913)
* “Fairy Tea” (poem), by D. K. Stevens (Mar. 1914)
* A Year with the Fairies, by Anna M. Scott (1914)
* The Everyday Fairy Book, by Anna Alice Chapin (1915)
* Flower Fairies, by Clara Ingram Judson (1915)
* Mamma’s Angel Child in Toyland, by Marie Christine Sadler (1915)
* The Book of Elves and Fairies, by Frances Jenkins Olcott (1918)
* The Fairy Who Believed in Human Beings, by Gertrude Alice Kay (1918)
* “Raggedy Ann and the Fairies’ Gift,” by Johnny Gruelle (1918)
* The Tin Woodman of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1918)
* Rainbow Stories, by George W. Caldwell (1919)
* The Box of Smiles (and Other Stories), by Laura Rountree Smith (1920)
* Fairies and Chimneys, by Rose Fyleman (1920)
* Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1920)
* “The Luck Fairies,” by Elsie Spicer Eells (1920)
* “The Early Irish Fairies and Fairyland,” by Norreys Jephson O’Conor (Oct. 1920)
* The Little Green Door, by Zoe Meyer (1921)
* Peter Rabbit and the Fairies, by Alma Hudson (1921)
* The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1922)
* “Goblins and Fairies,” by Shepherd Knapp (1922)
* “How Nial Won the Beautiful Princess,” by Evaleen Stein (1922)
* Fairies of the Nine Hills, by N. Moore Banta (1923)
* Four‐and‐forty Fairies, by N. Moore Banta and Alpha Banta Benson (1923)
* The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924)
* The One‐Eyed Fairies, by Georgia Eldredge Hanley (1924)
* I Have to Know 57 Trades in Order to Run My House (1925)
* The Adventures of Nip and Tuck, by Muriel Moscrip Mitchell (1927)
* The Batter and Spoon Fairies, by Edna A. W. Teall (1929)
* The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Potter (1929)
* The Elizabethan Fairies, by Minor White Latham (1930)

* “Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals” by Charles Perrault (1697)
* "Fairy Tales" by Madame d'Aulnoy (1697)
* Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812)
* Fairy Tales, Now First Collected, by Joseph Ritson (1831)
* By Seven Singing Willows (1930)
* Read It Yourself Stories, by Jessie A. Harris and Lillian M. Edmonds (1930) – includes unnamed fairies in “The Toy Shop” and moon fairies in “Santa’s Visit”

* A Midsummer Night’s Dream (play), by William Shakespeare (1595–96)
* Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (1597)
* The Entertainment at Althorp, by Ben Jonson (1603)
* Oberon, the Faery Prince, by Ben Jonson (1610)
* Love Restored, by Ben Jonson (1612)
* Grim the Collier of Croydon (1660)
* The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (c. 17th Century)
* Faust I (play), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1770s)
* Oberon (opera), libretto by James Planché, music by Carl Maria von Weber (1825–26)
* Melusina (singspiel), libretto by Franz Grillparzer, music by Conradin Kreutzer (1833)
* The Way of Life (play) by Jno. Jay Bailey (1867)
* The Magic Clock; or, The Reward of Industry (pantomime), by G. B. Bartlett (20 Dec. 1881)
* Four‐and‐twenty Blackbirds (operetta), by Geo. B. Bartlett (1882)
* The Foresters (play), by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1892)
* “The Rainbow Fairies” (song), words by Lizzie M. Hadley, music by Rossetter G. Cole (1895)
* “The Fairies’ Moonlight Dance” (song), words by M. B. Willis, music by Louis Gregh (1906)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(play) The Blue Bird] (play), by Maurice Maeterlinck (1908) – includes the fairy Bérylune
* Pinkie and the Fairies, by W. Graham Robertson (1909)
* A Topsy‐Turvy Christmas (cantata), book by Edna Randolph Worrell, music by Clarence Kohlmann (1911) – includes Dream Fairies
* Melilotte (operetta), by David Stevens (1914) – includes the fairy spinners Thistle Bloom and Pansy Bud
* Santa’s Rescue (play), by Elizabeth F. Guptill (1914) – includes unnamed Snow Fairies and Sunbeam Fairies, as well as the Brownies’ Fairy Godmother
* The Fairy and the Witch, by A. D. Nelson (1915)
* Dear Brutus (1917)
* The Busy Christmas Fairies (operetta), by Maude Summer Smith (1922)
* Good Health Fairies (play), by Eva Williams (1922)
* The Tooth Fairy (1927)
* A Christmas Dream, by Mildred Abernethy Hayes (Dec. 1928) – includes the Dew Fairy
* Jack and the Beanstalk, by Florence McClurg Everson (1929) – includes unnamed fairies as well as the Fairy Queen
* In Quest of Santa Claus (operetta), libretto by Lena M. Harry, music by Otis M. Carrington (1929) – includes Christmas Fairies named Kindness, Helpfulness, Goodwill, Unselfishness and Love
* Brownie and the Lost Reindeer, by J. Rae Tooke (Dec. 1929) – includes the fairy Twinkle
* Santa‐the‐Third, by Marjorie Barrows (Dec. 1929) – includes Mistletoe Fairies
* The A B C Fairies, by Gladys Henderson (1930) – includes Alphabet Fairies and the Queen of Fairies
* Lucy Chooses, by Gladys Henderson (1930) – includes the fairies I’ll Try and Do It Now, as well as the Queen of Fairies
* Madam Blossom’s Ball (play), by Rebecca Strutton (1930) – includes unnamed fairies
* The Queen of Roseland (play), by Rebecca Strutton (1930) – includes the Fairy Queen and her attendants and courtiers
* Safety First (play), by Mildred Corell and Irma Liccione (1930) – includes the fairy Safety First
* A Visit to Fairyland (play), by Rebecca Strutton (1930) – includes the Fairy Queen and a fairy band
* The Wisest Wish, by Alice W, Norton (1930) – includes the Wishing Fairy

* Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland (newspaper strip) (1905–1906)
* The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo (newspaper strip) – includes the Jam Fairy (26 June 1910), mountain fairies (17 July 1910) and ice fairies (5 Feb. 1911)
* Thrilling Comics #9: The Fairy Queen refuses to leave Fairyland to become a Hollywood star.
* Pep Comics #18, 28-29, 37-38: Here she is also known as "The Good Fairy" and appears to govern Wonderland, sending Danny of Wonderland on missions for her.
* Four Color #68: The Fairy Queen attends Mother Goose's birthday party and transforms the Ugly Duckling into a beautiful swan.
* Hoppy the Marvel Bunny #1: Marvel Bunny helps retrieve the Fairy Queen's wand from a witch, restoring the Fairy Queen's power.
* Hoppy the Marvel Bunny #2: The Fairy Queen gives Millie a magic ring that grants wishes (and causes trouble).
* World Famous Stories #1
* Ibis the Invincible #5
* Fairy Tale Parade #2, 6, 8
* All-New Comics #4

* La Fée aux Choux (1896,lost)
* Cendrillon (1899)
* La Fée aux Choux (1900)
* Sage-femme de première (1902)
* La fée printemps (1902)
* Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
* Le royaume des fées (1903)
* Cendrillon (1907)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
* Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)
* Cinderella (1911)
* Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse (1912)
* Nursery Favorites (1913)
* The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)
* Cinderella (1914)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(1918_film) The Blue Bird] (1918) – includes the fairy Bérylune
* Peter Pan (1924)

* Cinderella (1922)
* Por Cinderella (1934)
* Gripes (1943)
* The Infantry Blues (1943)
* Snafuperman (1944)
* The Wee Men (1947)
* Leprechaun's Gold (1949)
* Uncle Walt (1964)

*In the 6th generation of Pokemon games beginning with Pokemon X and Y, fairy type Pokemon are introduced and many Pokemon were changed to be the new type such as Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Marill, and Mr. Mime, as well as their evolutions & pre-evolutions.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/fairies/4060-57239/ ComicVine]
*[https://myths-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=fairy&scope=internal&navigationSearch=true Myths in Media Wiki]
*[https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Fairy Myth and Folklore Wiki]
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