Faeire Paper Outline

*** whenever i meantion "in each country" i will be using the "fairy faith in celtic countries" book because it goes in depth with the different countries

What is a faerie:

1. Origins -
1. quote website... then say that the paper will focus on celtic origins
1. http://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/faeries.html
2. Which countries are considered celtic?
3. for the purpose of this paper the term Faerie will be used to describe any beings from the Celtic Otherworld
2. Origin of the word
3. Tuatha De Dennan -> Sidhe -> faeries (use link in comparison blog)
4. Fallen Angel Theory
5. Otto theory
2. Characteristics 
1. Glamour (quote Iron King)
2. Iron
3. Shape.... go into the wide variety (humanoid like elves, animalish like kelpie...sizes.... irish vs sweedish elves)
3. Types
1. stereotypical ideology of faeries - "tinkerbell" to "Legolas" to "rock trolls in frozen"
2. Element type fairies
1. Water - Selkies, merrows,  kelpie
2. fire - 
3. wind - 
4. "earth" - trolls, gnomes, dwarves

Organization

1. Courts (see if there is variation amung countries on courts.... or if it is just scottish)
1. Seelie
2. Unseelie
3. Wild/Solitary
4. House Faeries

How the belief affects the culture

1. olden times
2. modern times 
1. physical effects 
1. artitecture/roadays (iceland article:  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/world/europe/building-in-iceland-better-clear-it-with-the-elves-first.html?_r=0 )
2. cultural effects -
1. books, plays, folk songs 
1. Heather Dale the fair folk
2. Bansidhe/banshee and other still actively used and believed in each country

How the belief has evolved through religion

1. Why would it be grouped into religion? - based off of definition of religion (i'll give examples that fit).... re-bring up Otto. 
2. pagan belief in faeries
3. Christian belief in faeries 
1. ^^^ these two would involve my conversations with people... but they weren't interviews...exactly? just conversations.

Conclusion

1. restate what the celtic faeries are
2. Why was the belief in them so important
3. how is it still important now

*anthropomorphic = human like

to get an idea of abstarct: http://issuu.com/lookout_2014/docs/the_lookout_2

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