Working With The Fae By Mike Sexton I love to learn about the Fae, all the different types ever since I had my first experience with them. It's interesting to learn their stories and myths from countries around the globe, and one thing that most of them have in common is the truth that the Fae are very little like what you see in Disney films or cartoons. The Fae aren't to be trifled with and are a very proud race of beings. There was a time when most of what we consider ghost or poltergeist activities were attributed to the Fae and their displeasure with something we might have done. People took great care, even after Christianity was introduced into Europe and other lands, to not offend the Fae in any of their forms. Often, if a child suddenly fell ill or looked unusual in some way, the parents thought that the child was a changeling. This was when the Fae were believed to take a healthy human child with them
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and leave a sickly child in its place. This was a way for parents to explain why their child was behaving strangely or wasn't quite right. During this time of Beltane, we can communicate most efficiently with the Fae. The other time is Samhain. During these times, the veil between our realm and theirs is much thinner, and it makes it easier for us to contact them and vice-versa. However, let me state that dealing with the Fae isn't something you want to attempt if you're new to your path. It takes a great deal of knowledge and experience under your belt to communicate with such beings because if you do something wrong, you could end up with a world of troubles. This includes inviting them into your circle for rituals and spell work and then not knowing how to let them return to their realm correctly.