Puck, also called Robin Goodfellow: the old English puck, the hobgoblin of the 1628 chapbook, and how Shakespeare welded them into one sprite. Jack of Diamonds in the Creatures of the Fae deck.
Titania, queen of the faeries: a name borrowed from Ovid, the changeling boy, the enchantment with Bottom, and the older Queen of Elfland behind her. Queen of Diamonds in the Creatures of the Fae deck.
Oberon, king of the faeries: the German dwarf Alberich, the French Auberon of Huon de Bordeaux, and Shakespeare’s jealous, forgiving monarch. The King of Diamonds in the Creatures of the Fae deck.
The faery star, or elven star, is a seven-pointed heptagram. Here is where it comes from, what the seven points are said to mean, and whether it has any connotations to worry about.
What people across Europe believed about faery rings, why you were warned to keep out of them, and what is really growing under the grass.
Where the Seelie and Unseelie Courts really come from, what the words mean, and who belonged to each according to Scottish folklore.
The trees the fair folk are said to claim, from the Irish fairy thorn to the Elder Mother, and the one tree that keeps them out.
The rules of the fae from folklore: guard your name, don’t eat their food, give but don’t take, keep your word, carry iron, respect their places. Where each rule comes from.
Fairy, faery, faerie and fae are one word spelled four ways, but writers use them differently. Here is where each comes from and when to use which.