Wendy asks about Tinker Bell, and Peter says he can't remember her and assumes she's died, and Wendy observes that fairies don't live very long. This suggests that at any given time, there are probably be far fewer fairies than humans in the Peter Pan universe, since they have the same birth rate and shorter lifespans. But Mira's scenario assumes immortal fairies, so let's talk about immortal fairy demographics. A fairy is created by every [2] Approximately, anyway, but we'll round up by assuming that all babies laugh.
The total number of humans who have ever lived is somewhere around billion, [3] There are various groups who have estimated this, and they all tend to come up with a number around in this range. If you take a set of estimates for ancient human population Wikipedia has a table of them and assume a birth rate near the biological maximum before the 20th century 35 to 45 births per 1,, according to this paper , you can derive a similar number yourself.
How much do all those fairies weigh? Tinker Bell, the main fairy from the Peter Pan universe, seems to be a little under six inches tall. As another data point, the statue of Tinker Bell at Madam Tussaud's wax museum is 5. That's less than humans or horses , and probably comparable to the total mass of all humpback whales. At these numbers, fairies would be a minor piece of the ecosystem, although possibly a pretty annoying one.
But it wasn't always the case. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Who gives it light and color as the seasons come and go?
Who helps all creatures Great and small to walk? To swim? To fly? Who crafts such tiny details? You might see them if you try. For it's all the work of fairies, but they stay well out of sight. For the first time that baby laughs, a fairy's life takes flight. Fan Feed 1 Encanto 2 Mirabel Madrigal 3 Universal Conquest Wiki.
Tinker-talent fairies build things to help other fairies accomplish their own responsibilities more easily. Water-talent fairies can manipulate water. They are able to control it in various ways, including forming it into various shapes, freezing it, boiling it, or using it to create fountains. Water-talent fairies collect and redistribute water to where it is needed, such as putting dew drops on grass and spider webs. Animal-talent fairies have the unique ability to speak with any animal in its native tongue, whether it be a raccoon, bird, tree frog, or squirrel.
They are extremely sensitive and can "read" an animal's thoughts or emotions. Like the animals they work with, animal-talent fairies have a keen sense of smell and excellent hearing. Animal-talent fairies help raise baby animals, provide animals with guidance, and care for animals in distress.
Despite the fairy dust and glamour, Tinker Bell is dangerous and vengeful like a deadly fairy temptress. At one point in the story, she even threatens to kill Wendy. Peter Pan was canonised by Disney in and the sentimental celluloid fairy was born. But in folklore, fairies are often a demonic or undead force; one which humans need to seek protection against. As folklorist Katharine Briggs has noted. In her Dictionary of Fairies , she wrote:. People walking alone by night, especially through fairy-haunted places, had many ways of protecting themselves.
The first might be sacred symbols, by making the sign of a cross, or by carrying a cross, particularly one made of iron; by prayers, or the chanting of hymns, by holy water, sprinkled or carried, and by carrying and strewing Churchyard mould in their path. Bread and salt were also effective, and both were regarded as sacred symbols, one of life and the other of eternity. What is more, fairyland has a hunger for human blood. Fairy affairs reappeared two decades later when two teenage cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, played with fairies in the English countryside near Cottingley.
Interacting with imaginary fairy friends would probably be considered normal behavior for and year-old girls, but the pair insisted that the fairies were real. They even provided proof in the form of five photographs showing little fairy folk playing with the girls.
While some dismissed the photos as obvious fakes, many others were not so sure. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, believed that the fairies were real, and wrote a book titled "The Coming of the Fairies," in which he discussed the fairies and his conviction that their existence had been proven beyond any doubt.
Many were taken in, and the reality of fairies was the subject of debate among some adults for decades. Finally, in , Frances Griffiths, then 75 years old, confessed that the "fairies" were cut-out drawings from a book,.
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