The source of fairy beliefs was that a race of people had once lived in the Celtic nations and British Isles that were driven into hiding by invading humans. They came to be seen as another race, or possibly spirits, and were believed to live in an Otherworld.
The Otherworld in Celtic mythology is the realm of the dead or the stronghold of spirits and beings or right alongside the world of the living, but invisible to most humans or
described as existing underground.
Faerie folk: They are generally portrayed as humanoid in appearance and as having supernatural abilities, various animals have also been described as fairies. One popular belief was that they were the dead (ghosts), or some subclass of the dead.
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