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Halloween: Fairy

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I changed the picture's brightness, though it is probably barely noticeable.

I already said more than enough in my previous Halloween picture here (arcturus94-j.deviantart.com/ar…) about the fair folk and how the modern image differs greatly from the old one.

Here in the upper panel is the modern depiction of fairies as these beautiful, tiny people with insect wings.

In the lower panel is a more traditional fairy the Pooka, a malevolent or very amoral shapeshifter, which can take on the form a horse, goat, rabbit, cat, dog, human  (though in that form it would have animal ears or a tail) and a deformed goblin. Active at night it would scare travelers and cause a lot of property damage: destroy fences, destroy crops, sour beer, and make cows unable to give milk and chickens to lay eggs. It demands a share of people's crops during harvest time (31st of October and the 1st of November, also known as Pooka Day); those who refuse to give it to it would suffer its wrath. It is a very vindictive being. Berries affected by frost should not be eaten, as it is the Pookas spit, which turns them poisonous. Its only weaknesses are that it cannot enter a house uninvited and iron burns it. Here it took on one of its more hideous forms, that of a horse with a human-like face.

Also, when it comes to the Fairy Land/Land of the Fair Folk in my opinion, rather than being depicted as beautiful land of forests and grasslands, it should be depicted in such a way that is more in tune with the nature of its inhabitants, that is an eldritch universe of chaos, constantly shifting terrain, full of alien geometries and extremely hostile environments, where a human, who was spirited away by a fairy, would eventually go mad or die.

Waiting for comments and criticism.
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Tarturus's avatar
"sour bear". "Barrie's affected by frost".
I'm guessing you meant to say "sour beer" and "Berries affected by frost".

Great pooka depiction btw.