World Wide
England
The Faerie in England is a blending of the Germanic dwarf-elf people and the Celtic people of the hills. The translation of the French romance of Huon of Bordeaux. From this translation came idea of an organized Faerie world. The Faeries of Spencer and Shakespeare evolved from this translation.
Perhaps the most famous English Faerie tale was the Cottingley Faeries. Elsie Wright and Frances Griffins of England in 1917 took pictures of Faeries, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included in The Coming of the Fairies.
Germany
The finest of the fairy-mistress stories originate in the Germanic nations. Such stories of the union of a mortal and a fairy are part of the general story pattern of the love of a mortal and a super-natural being. The Knight of Staufenburg, the lais of Launfal and of Graelent, the story of Oisin and the and the queen of fairyland, Melusina, Sir Orfeo are a few of the mortal and super-natural being type stories.
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A Tribute to Axel Jacob-And Our Other German Friends
The child sees a possible world of fairest flowers and most delicious fruits, of noblest men and women, of truth and excellence, of thinking and striving, of high thoughts and generous loves. Finding that the world, the real world, somewhat lacks, the imaginative child peoples a world of its own, with fictional characters; and into that world the adult cannot enter, except in those brief moments when adult and child share and share alike in the realm of reading. So, let the gates of reading be thrown open wide, that the young may know the freshness of life, and may know gentle and knightly company, to evoke their admiration. Visit Axel's world and admiration you will find - even more!
Persia
Pari, piri or feri is certainly our fairy, but she is no fingerling. She is an enchantress, human in size, in beauty, and in desire.
Ireland
In Ireland, the first drops of milk from a cow are allowed to fall on the ground for the Faeries. The Faerie blast originated in Ireland. People seeking to dig up Faerie treasure are often stopped by a terrific gale of wind. There is a famous story about a musician who learned to play the Faerie music. Once when he was so bold as to play some of the tunes at a country dance. He was whisked away suddenly by a blast of Faerie wind.
China
More often than not, the Chinese version of the Faerie has hair in a pony tail like that of the traditional male dress. The Faerie will also change forms from animal to human and vice versa. The bulk of China's fairy tales have not been translated because of the pre occupation that such tales are not worthy of wise men.