PLANET NERD

DRYADS are often hued in the color of various barks, and sing beautifully. They are playful, friendly, and like to tease. Some of them can hop from tree to tree, favoring Willows, Oaks, Elders, Birch, Rowan, and Ash-all sacred trees to the Celts while others must stay with their birth tree, as their souls are connected and one cannot live without the other. Friendly Sprites and Elves share these dwellings with the Dryads, and sometimes you can catch sight of an Elf near the base of an ancient tree, or hear the sweet melody of a Sprite who makes her home way up in the treetop.

SIDHE DRAOI is Gaelic for faery Druids, and it’s believed the Celtic Druidesses took the name of their order from these faery nymphs, who thought them the magic of trees.

In Scotland and England, ELVES are small and round, sweet and good-hearted trooping race of wee people. However solitary Elves are nasty. All Elves are truly good shoemakers, excellent spinners, and are very smart. They keep mice for pets, dislike cats, and live in the woods usually under oak trees. Elves enjoy feasting, drinking, and socializing and can be found in many part of the world. Originally from the otherworld called Alfheim, many of the Elves of Germany long skinny tails, snatch babies and leave changelings –called Elf Children –in their stead, and are rather mean. The Elf King of Denmark and Germany wears a big golden crown, and is attired in such finery as only true royalty would be. He appears to humans to warn of their impending death, and lives in Valhalla, the Norse Otherworld, or World of the Dead. Some lore considers the Elves faeries while other tradition does not.

The POOKA, a magical wild sea horse is a gleefully malicious horse who delights in taking the unsuspecting inebriated human on a reckless midnight ride, then dumping him rather unceremoniously from his back sometime near dawn, often drowning him. 

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