Mortals Guide to Visiting Faerie

~ Cold Iron interferes with fairy magic or fairy powers.

~ If you eat in Faerie, you might be stuck there for 100 years.

~ Don't accept any gifts in Faerie, you might be stuck there for 100 years if you are not able to match the gift.

~ Always be polite in Faerie - for an impoliteness you can find yourself with donkeys ears or worse.

~ Never tell anybody in Faerie your true name because knowing someone's name gives you power over them.

~ Touch an iron nail to any gold a fairy gives you to tell if it's real.

~ The fake gold that fairies give you turns to dross in the morning.




* Information derived from 'Books of Magic - Chapter Three'  by Neil Gaiman *

The Endless

Destiny - Greek name Potmos

Death - Greek name Teleuti

Dream - Roman name Morpheus - Greek name Oneiros  - male offspring Orpheus

Destruction - Greek name Olethros

Desire - Greek name Epithumia

Despair - Greek name Aponoia

Delirium once known as Delight - Greek name Mania


Their appearance can change to fit the expectations of others.

Chateau LaFitte 1828

Only a few bottles remain in dreams.

Shared by Morpheus and Hob Gadling.

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the Devil his due."


* Sandman #13 Men of Good Fortune *