A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time when the world was young and full of magic, fairies lived in all the wild places. They dressed in the finest of cobweb gowns and had the most beautiful gossamer wings in lovely shades of pink and blue and lavender. They shared their world with other magic folk and all lived in peace and harmony.

Time passed and the age of man came upon the earth. People stopped believing in magic and all the magic folk began to change. Elves, whose ears were large and pointed so they could hear the tiniest sound in the forest, began to notice their ears getting smaller. Pixies, who could sleep on a flower petal, got taller and taller until they had to sleep in a real bed. And worst of all, fairies lost their beautiful wings. Some of the magic folk got angry and began to do mean things. Gnomes, small creatures that lived in the woods and took care of the wild creatures who lived there began to steal anything pretty and hide them away in burrows deep under the ground. They weren’t really bad; they just missed the bright shiny world of magic. Try not to be too angry if a gnome occasionally steals some small bright colored thing of yours.

The world has become a dull place where beauty and magic are only things told to children in fairytales. Even so, a few people began to wonder if the magic they had heard of in those fairytales might be real. Some little girls looked in their mirror and wondered if maybe they were fairies; fairies without wings.

Do you think you may be a fairy? Well, I’m going to tell you a secret; you are. Shhh, don’t tell anyone. Most adults don’t believe anymore and their doubt destroys the magic, so we have to keep this just between us. But if you throw coins or jewelry into the magic wishing pool and wish very hard, wonderful things can happen. It was your fairy magic that brought me here today to share this powerful secret with you.