Black Fae Day is in a week and already I've seen White Neo Pagans talk about appropriation of Celtic cultures and I'm genuinely cracking up at these folks. It's as if they save all the energy for Black people but none of the energy on researching the thing they are speaking of.

First of all fairies aren't unique to one place in Europe. Or honestly Europe. Many cultures around the world have similar (and sometimes exact) folklore. Fairies also been in actual popular culture for longer than 600 years. Oh, and let's not forget the slave trade existed.

Hoodoo can see traces of European, Indigenous, and African folklore. Oh, and have I mentioned the fact that POP CULTURE has relied on Fairies for hundreds of years? Shakespeare. Holly Black. Charles de Lint. Fairies even exist in OTHER religions. I'm looking at you King James.

Most people don't understand that during the Victorian period fairies were popularized in culture as a part of revival of romantic histories of the UK, which of course was the same in the US. A lot of what people know about the folklore is only 200 years old. Etomology is a thing

For instance some people believed fairies were fallen angels that served Satan. (Still looking at you King James!) Some people believed they were dead people. The very word didn't mean any one creature but "enchanted". Fairies do not come from any one single origin at all.

You can associate the Fae and fairies with French people. With German people. With the English. The Celts. Oh, and ALL the people they colonized and enslaved thereby passing on their culture and beliefs that were mixed up the beliefs of the people enslaved and colonized. *Boop*