Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years. Edward John Poynter's painting Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862.

He wrote of the sidhe, as the fairy folk were named in Gaelic ... and welcomed the fanciful association of her reign with the faerie kingdom. It is not a coincidence that Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night ...

But where did fairies, or "faeries ... spelt "Bean sidhe"), that only appeared to foretell tragedies, or hags that haunted areas in the wilderness. Another famously evil fairy was the "Jack ...

Finvarra is also the King of the Daoine Sidhe, a race of deities ... to be the inspiration for the fairy Queen Mab immortalized in Edmund Spenser’s "Faerie Queen." Midhir, or Midir, is an ...