Little People

The little people is the fey term in Ireland.  Although for the purposes of my blog I will be including dwarves, goblins and hobbits as well as Leprechans into this segment.   Little people as the Irish refer to them are often tricksters and love to pull pranks and steal small items from the household.  Little people can be blamed if you loose something and for some reason it ends up in some odd place or another.  Leprechans have vast amounts of gold and according to legend store them at the end of rainbows.  Although it is impossible to get to the end of the rainbow....Well that's science another thing entirely.   Leprechans are very jealous of their gold and will do anything to protect it.   Leprechans are part of the history of Ireland and its folk tales.   Dwarves are little men that love gold, in some stories they are fierce small warriors with beards, in one story I read they had glowing moss in their beards that had to be carefully tended.  Goblins are some of the most hated of the little people, as to some accounts they steal livestock and even people, they are an ugly race overall.  They do seem to be cleaver, for an uncleaver goblin is a dead goblin by their thinking.  I read quite an interesting book about goblins once where the main character was a goblin himself.   Finally we have hobbits, hobbits are peace loving three feet tall humanoid creatures, who like to smoke pipes and have a fondness for music, they are the creation of J. R Tolkin and no one since him has made a story in which the hobbits are the main characters.

Elementals come in two diffrent types, there are those that are thought of as spirits of the four elements and those that can control these elements at will.  The element masters of air would have the ability over air, they can control anything from a simple breeze to gale force winds,  using this power they can also fly upon the air currents going where they wish and benifiting from their abilities.  In most stories air folk are supercillious and flighty as their element.   Water elementals have control over water, they can control the waves and make waves in still water, in some books they can breath under water for indefinate periods of time.   Water elementals are thought of as being a calm and soothing force.   Earth elemtals can control soil rocks and in some cases animals and humans.  Earth elementals can also heal people as they have close connection to the body.  They are quite literally thought of as down to earth.  Fire elementals have ability with fire, this seems to be the most dangerous of elements for obvious reasons, people and fire do not mix well.  In some reports Fire elementals are resistant to the flames they control.  Fire elementals are often given to fury and are as volitile as their element.  The four elements sometimes have a fifth called spirit, which can replace Earth's ability to control people.  In some cases they can see into the minds of others if that an be believed.  All elementals seem to be quite cool to me, I wish I had control over one of these elements.

Wizards

Wizards aren't technically magical creatures, but they can do magic so I'm putting them in my blog.  Wizards are cool, I like them a lot and read a lot of books about them.  There are many different ways wizards use their power, the most common is through a wand or staff like Gandelf in the Hobbit.  In the Harry Potter books they use wands and the wand chooses the wizard not the other way around. I think that a wand choosing its host is a realistic way of getting a wand because if a wizard chooses the wand it seems to defeat the purpose and make it seem like just another tool.   A wand is vital to a wizard as they can't do magic without it.  Although fake wizards and witches were burnt at the stake, there is no proof that there actually are wizards in the world.  Many believe that magic is real however, I believe in the possibility of magic and wish that I was a witch but sadly I am not.   It would be really cool to be a witch or a wizard and be able to do stuff to objects and people around you.  I think that a pen that takes notes for you is awesome, it would be a lot easier then having to take notes yourself.  There are some other things in the books I read that I want myself, like pictures that move.  It would be awesome to have something to remember a certain event. Wizards are epic and cool.  I wish that I could see one.

Faries

Fairies are different depending upon which book or person you ask.  Some picture fairies as tiny people with wings while others have them as big as people.   The fairy courts in Shakespeare are the most famous but many other people have written about fairies over the years.  I like the books by Eion Colfler as he has a unique point of view about Fairies.  I also like the fairy wars series it’s a darker take on fairies then is usually portrayed. Another famous fairy is Tinkerbelle from Peter Pan; she's a tiny fairy and gives off a gold dust that can make people fly.  Tinkerbelle’s companion is Peter Pan and they have adventures in Neverland.  I also like it when fairies are mischievous or down right nasty like Tinkerbelle was to Windy.   When I was a little girl I had an entire room devoted to fairies, it was pink with fairy wallpaper and decals.  I loved that room.  Fairies are also part of Irish culture and myths and I like stories about them.   I believe in the possibility of fairies as some say they die if you don’t and I think it would be terrible to inadvertently kill a fairy by not believing in them.  Fairies are beautiful little creatures; they are also a treasured part of myths and legends from around the world.  The most famous fairy is the tooth fairy that supposedly gives young children money in exchange for one of their baby teeth.  Kids grow up with the legend of the tooth fairy taught to them by their parents and they believe in it until after they reach a certain age.   Fairies are one of my favorite magical creatures.

Dragons!

I love dragons, they are so pretty. I like the ones in storybooks when there are different kinds of dragons.  I loved E.E Knight's books and the Harry Potter books take on dragons was cool to.  However my favorite kind of dragons are the elemental dragons, I wish there were more books out there about dragons that would be cool.  I think I like dragons because of their pretty wings and the ability to breath fire, which would be pretty awesome when you think about it.  I wish I could breath fire, how awesome would that be, if someone annoyed me I would just breath fire and then they would be all like whoosh their on fire.   I also like water dragons and they used to have them on maps, or sea serpents more of.   I'm not sure if all dragons breath fire or not but that would be cool.   Sometimes I wish I were a dragon that would be really neat too.   I'd love to fly.   If I were a dragon I would have some form of treasure as dragons tend to bury gold.  They get this gold from explorers and adventurers as they die in nasty ways such as being cooked inside their own armor.  Dragons take delight in this, as they like their knights nice and crispy.  I personally don't blame them a nice char broiled knight would be a tasty treat, as well as a princess for desert.  Mmm toasted princess is a dragon's favorite, however they have to wait to eat until after the foolish knight attempts to rescue them.

First Post

Hi my name is Kyla Hockman and I have a lifelong love of Si Fi and Fantasy.  So when my English Teacher decided that we should start doing our own blogs, it was my natural choice.   I think this blog will be about all sorts of wonderful magical creatures and beings, such as but not limited to, faeries, dragons, fey, wizards, witches, elves, dwarfs, goblins, ect.   Anyway about all things fantastic and fantasy.  Perhaps the best place to start is to talk about myself, the mythical creature that is me.  Well I'm 20, in my second year of college, I love to read and write, so maybe I'll be talking some about my favorite books as well as everything else.  I'm an only child as well, which meant that I had to live a lot in my own world growing up, imagining games and different worlds.  I was a very imaginative child, occasionally mischievous as well.   However my parents always guided me towards being a good member of society.  Growing up my favorite books were and still are by J.K Rowling and Dianna Whynne Jones, I love those authors and the worlds they weave with pen and ink.   I've always thought that being a writer is a most marvelous  career choice and I've thought of doing it as one of my options for my life.   Currently however my reading has taken a back burner to my college studies as I need to graduate in order to have a fulfilling life and as well as the fact that college is just plain fun and exciting.  I love learning new things and college is a wonderful place to learn them in.  I like my professors and feel as though this is a good experiance for me.   Anyway blog to you soon, Kyla Hockman.