There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of My Garden Quiz

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1. You'd know if you had one of these fairies lurking in your garden, because any fruit trees you happened to have would have withered and died. This odd and exceedingly ugly creature has half a body, with one eye, one arm, one leg, and a rooster's crest on its head.

Answer: Fachan

I wouldn't recommend you go looking for a fachan, because it's said to be so ugly the very sight of it might give you a heart attack!

2. If you have a large overgrown garden with many mature trees, especially conifers, you might attract one of these fairies. He usually appears as a tall man with pale white skin and bright green eyes, with a grassy hair and beard.

Answer: Leshy

The Leshy is a forest spirit who is the guardian of plants and animals, and has the power to change form and size. He is a trickster and a prankster, and leads people astray. He may even tickle a captive almost to death.

3. You really wouldn't want to hear this fairy wailing and keening at the bottom of your garden because that would mean somebody in your house was about to die.

Answer: Bean Sidhe

Bean Sidhe (or banshee) can translated as a "fairy woman". Always female, she may be invisible, appear as a young beautiful, but pale woman, or as an ugly hag.

4. A reliable sign that you have one of these solitary fairies in your garden wouldn't be a pot of gold, but his little red (or green) coat, and your neatly cobbled shoes.

Answer: Leprechaun

Traditions change, and the appearance of the leprechaun is one of those traditional elements that has been altered in modern times. In older stories, he always wears a red coat and a cocked hat, whereas in most modern images his coat is green and he has red hair. The pot of gold is also a modern invention.

5. Should you have a mine at the bottom of your garden, you'd be happy to have these little Cornish fairies there, because they warn miners of dangers underground.

Answer: Knockers

Knockers are said to look like grizzled little men, about two feet tall. They wear miner's grab and have a habit of collecting unattended items. The miners in Cornwall would often leave the last bit of their pasties for the knockers, so that they would be helpful and warn them of cave-ins.

6. These fairies are grotesque, and though normally small, they have an alarming tendency to swell to enormous size. Things disappearing would be a clue to one having having taken up residence at the bottom of your garden.

Answer: Spriggan

Spriggans are said to guard faerie treasure, and to have a habit of adding to it, being skilful thieves with a malevolent attitude. And should you find one, you might like to get in the archaeologists, because they generally inhabit old ruins and ancient barrows.

7. This headless fairy rides a headless black horse and carries his head under his arm. You could not keep him in your garden, because he ignores locks and bars, but you wouldn't want to, because wherever he stops, someone is about to die.

Answer: Dullahan

His head is said to resemble mouldy cheese, and have huge staring eyes. He carries a whip made from a human spine... and he's found his way into a number of horror stories!

8. If you spot a beautiful black horse, with a flowing mane and glowing eyes, at the bottom of your garden, then you might have one of these shape-shifting faeries hiding among the cabbages...

Answer: Pooka

The Pooka, (or P�ca or Puck) may also take the form of a human, a rabbit, a dog or a goblin. If it entices you onto its back, expect a wild ride. But the Pooka, however chaotic and scary, is essentially benevolent, and is known to give good advice, and to lead people away from harm.

9. If your things start to vanish, your milk turns sour, and your dog goes lame, then you've probably got one of these malevolent fairies lurking in your garden.

Answer: Boggart

Never name a boggart, or you'll never get rid of it! It is said that hanging a horseshoe on the door will keep it out, but the only way to get rid of a boggart is to outwit it. There is a story about a farmer, who bought a patch of land that was inhabited by a boggart.

When the farmer began to cultivate the land, the boggart was angered, and only satisfied when the farmer agreed to give it half the crop. The boggart agreed, and the farmer asked if it wanted the half below the ground or above the ground.

It asked for the half below the ground - so the clever farmer sowed barley. He got a fine harvest of barley, and the boggart got stubble. So, it demanded the half of the next crop from above the ground. So, the farmer planted potatoes, and claimed a big heap of spuds.

The boggart stomped off in anger, never to be seen again.

10. This fairy you might actually want in your garden, because he likes to help around the house. If annoyed he can be irritating, but a gift of clothing will send him on his way.

Answer: Hob

The Hob (a type of Brownie) is a type of faerie called a household spirit. There are domestic faeries in many traditions and as long as they are treated right (food left out for them and so on) they are helpful, doing odd jobs around the house, out of sight, and often at night. It seems likely that Dobby the house-elf in the "Harry Potter" books was based on these creatures.

Source: Author Flamis

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