The reality of magical creatures like fairies, elves, witches and more is often debated. Most of our cultural understanding and beliefs about fairies come from mainstream movies, TV shows and comics.

"My kids would put out their shoes and the Full Moon Fairy would come and bring them a trinket," creator Karly Bonfante tells PEOPLE exclusively of her books Shane O'Donnell Karly Bonfante, a Los ...

This waterfall in Malham, Yorkshire Dales, captivates visitors with its mystical green glow and fairy queen folklore, ...

For ages, some people have believed in fairies — strange and otherworldly creatures often connected to nature. But that belief hasn’t always been mainstream in the United States. Andrew Warburton is ...

Rip Van Winkle slept, the Goblin King of Dunderberg plotted, and the Hudson Valley hummed with mischief in the tales written by Washington Irving. But long before Irving put pen to paper, New York’s ...

Author Rudyard Kipling was one of the many inspired by East Sussex's fairy tale heritage when he lived at Bateman's, Burwash in the early twentieth century. The magic he felt endures still today ...

For a brief moment after World War One, everyone was obsessed with fairies. It started with a series of black and white photographs, showing two schoolgirls in Edwardian clothes frolicking in the ...