So the hunter-gatherers come to help in the fields for part of the year. During other parts they bring meat, spices, and other treasures from the forest to help the agriculturalists survive, thus each needs the other. Both think of the other as magical. Pygmies think the agricultural people have the power to curse them, just as pixies feared humanities evil eye. At the same time the agriculturalists valued the pygmies ability to heal them and foretell the future.
Finally, its worth noting that the pygmies were known as amazing singers and dancers for a long time. Ancient Egyptian records even mention this. This relationship between two people's isn't isolated to Africa. It exists in the Philippines and Malaysia and likely many other places as well.
This relationship can explain a lot between the relationship between humans and pixies. For example, why humans believed that while they should pay the pixies a small amount they should to avoid letting the pixies have too much or else they would feel too fine to work.
It explains why the pixies and humans can both get along and be antagonistic towards each other at the same time.
Especially presuming some pixies are more angry about their relationship with humans than others. The difference, of course, is that pixies aren't human. On the other hand humans themselves aren't entirely human.
In lore humans were just another branch of the fairy family, so there are some similarities between us and them. In terms of understanding pixies we can see three primary driving forces for their behavior;. It seems clear that many of the pixies have come to embrace their place within human folk religion as "the magical others.
Because pixies tend to be obsessed with hard work, with cleanliness and productivity. They can't stand to simply be lazy and so they are prone to helping people with their work, so long as the people are hard working themselves.
Their obsession with hard work is extreme enough that they feel the need to punish those who are lazy and reward those who fit with their notions of what's decent and moral. In addition to these Santa Like activities they punish those who deny them. In one of their wars with a human who was trying to get rid of them they made it impossible for butter to churn, they ruined wine, they pixie lead people to get lost, pulled people's noses, pinched them, and caused all manner of trouble.
What's key here, is that despite the fact that the pixies don't like people to see them, they want people to believe in them. It's not entirely certain what they get out of this relationship, other than a bit of food and clean water. However, as a writer you could speculate that they get a certain amount of magical energy from the rituals people perform to them. Or perhaps the pixies are merely obsessed with respect. Pixies are fun loving, wild, and mischievous. March Elves of Evermeet.
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Cancel Save. Daphne Specialists Nabu Paladins. Pixies Elves Gnomes Animals. Winx Avatar Story. Music Albums Songs. Comics Books. Dolls DVDs. Official Season 9 Discussion Blog. Explore Wikis Community Central. A fairy is a type of mythical or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin, but are rather a collection of folklore beliefs from disparate sources.
Fairies were a common feature of Renaissance literature and Romantic art and were especially popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The Celtic Revival also saw fairies established as conical part of Celtic cultural heritage. The fairies of the past were feared as dangerous and powerful beings who were sometimes friendly to humans but could also be cruel or mischievous.
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