However, there is a way through all this confusion. Fairyists have long noticed that fairies tend to break down into two categories: trooping and solitary fairies; or as they have also been called social and anti-social fairies. Ambitious dust-keeper fairy Zarina, captivated by Blue Pixie Dust, teams up with scheming pirates when her ideas get her into trouble. Fawn never judges a book by its cover.
She is an Animal Talent Fairy who loves all animals. Vidia is the fastest of the fast-flying fairies. She is confident and caring in her own way. She loves her friends, but may not say it out loud. Periwinkle is a Frost Fairy who lives in the Winter Woods. So why did we lose our fear of fairies and how did they come to be associated with childhood?
Fascinated by angels, ghosts and vampires Victorians subsequently Edwardians increasingly saw fairies as the souls of the dead. Rather than dispelling fairies, the first world war and the loss of many loved ones heightened a belief in airy spirits and occult methods of communicating with them.
When the first baby laughed…its laugh broke into a thousand pieces…that was the beginning of fairies.
This is far from the malevolent fairies and their shadowy history in folklore. In these stories they steal children, drive people insane, blight cattle and crops — and drink human blood.
Barrie, of course, was aware of their dark side. Despite the fairy dust and glamour, Tinker Bell is dangerous and vengeful like a deadly fairy temptress. At one point in the story, she even threatens to kill Wendy.
Peter Pan was canonised by Disney in and the sentimental celluloid fairy was born. The exact numbers depend on when the modern human fairy-generating species developed, but by the time the last ice age was over, the accumulated fairies could have outweighed our tiny living human population 10 to 1.
Once our population started growing following the agricultural revolution , we would have quickly outstripped fairies in terms of weight. In , fairy biomass would be down to about 1. But as long as humans keep reproducing, the fairy population would keep growing. If we assume the human population will level off at around 9 billion partway through this century, then the share of mass occupied by fairies would continue rising steadily.
In the year ,, if our species is somehow still around, they'll outweigh us. This makes things interesting. Let's assume fairies need to eat. If fairies weigh about as much as us, they'd presumably be consuming a similar share of food and water. So even if the Earth can support million tons of human, it may not be able to support million tons of human and another million tons of fairy.
This suggests that, sometime in the next hundred millennia, the growing fairy population would start to crowd out the human population. But if fairies crowd out humans, that would in turn reduce the growth rate of the fairies, slowing down the replacement process.
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