The Existence of Fairies

Throughout the history of mankind, stories of small winged creatures are common from Europe to the far east and from the North Pole to the South Pole. Whether or not they are believed in, fairies could be living on Earth and make up a part of culture. Despite the lack of scientific evidence, fairies may exist because many different cultures have told of them, their disappearing abilities have protected them, and genetics or evolution could have created them.

People who say fairies are figments of imagination may charge a believer to prove fairies are real. Admittedly no known scientific evidence exists to prove the existence of fairies. Of course, no scientific evidence is around to prove that God, heaven, or hell exist, yet many people believe in the existence of those possibilities. Non-believers of fairies may also say that the fairies can not be seen—"I won’t believe it until I see it." Almost every person who lives in the country in Ireland has one or more stories about fairies and it can be guaranteed that some of those tales of their lives include fairy spottings.

Most cultures throughout the world have some story that involves a creature or two from the race of fairy. These stories generally come from primitive history before the tribes knew other tribes of humans were around. Now, how could such widespread belief come about without fairy existence? These stories did not come from just a few people’s imaginations and spread. First, the tribes could not communicate with each other because of the evolution of different languages. Second, where did the idea come from if it was just a story? No cave person who used every moment of their life for survival was going to sit and try to make up some "fairy tale"--how would they get the idea in the first place? Third, the stories seem to have some attributes that are similar.

Most of the fairies in stories can disappear. Disappearing acts are not that hard to pull off and do not require magic, just brains. All that is needed for a disappearing act is someplace to disappear (such as up a chimney, onto the roof, into the woods, into a hole in the ground, or into some tall grass), some camouflage clothes with the correct colorings, and some speed or motionlessness, whichever the situation requires.

Normally, it would be next to impossible to find where a fairy lives, unless led to the fairy’s home or city. This goes along somewhat with disappearing acts. If a house or shelter is made of materials of the surrounding area, the shelter will not stand out for coloration. Build it in a shape similar to a mound with grass growing on top, in a tree with many branches, or underground, and the living spot will look like or be hidden by nature. The shelter should then not be visible to the untrained eye. Most people in modern times could never find animal homes when well hidden.

Another attribute in common is the existance of good and evil fairies. Of course not all fairies are going to be the same. In every species in the world will be found a "bad egg" or outcast.

Finally, most fairies seem to be small in stature and have wings. Evolution takes care of those items. Earth is very old; its occupants have had many years to use evolution. A creature evolved that is very small: about the size of a song bird or butterfly. This creature has wings. It has a human shape—head (with brain), torso, arms, legs, hands (with an opposable thumb), and feet (a small monkey without fur or tail). This creature would be called by the name of fairy. If you take away the wings, you have ground dwellers (they would have somewhat of a larger size—say possible human midget’s size).

Why couldn’t such a creature have evolved? In the past, people were much shorter—the average height would have been about four feet tall. Look at pygmies. The adults are three to four feet tall and would be much smaller than kids of modern days. Even small enough so that if they had wings, they could fly. All that is needed is for them to stay small or to shed wings. The possibilities are endless when it comes to what evolution can do in the fild of genetics—scientists can grow ears on the backs of rats, why not wings on the back sof humans? The scientist might stop growth at a young age and actually create an artifical fairy.

Fairies created by evolution have lived in stories from many cultures, protected by their ability to hide, for as far back as humans can remember. Who needs scientific proof? Most people do not seem to need it for many things they believe in. John Fallain, an archaeologist from Connemara, Clifden, Ireland quoted an old woman to a group of tourists who said, "I don’t believe in fairies, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real."