Fairies were always big like ppl, till Victorian era; folklore historian

 See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i61jkjPtMuw

See time 14:30 in video.

Scots and Irish fairies are still big. And fairies used to always be human sized or bigger… also were beautiful. 

The English in the Victorian era made them smaller.  Victorians were interested in nature and insects… dragonflies and stuff. 

Irish Aos Sí, Irish fairies (pretty much fairies,), from wikipedia - Riders of the Sidhe (1911), painting by John Duncan . 

Check out this site. 

More from that Irish folklore site

"While we now see the word Sidhe (pronounced Shee) as meaning an Irish Fairy being, the word in older Irish generally referred to a place associated with the Otherworld, the actual mounds themselves that were said to be connecting places between the worlds."

That's interesting to me, b/c it is just like the torii gates in Japan... crossing over into the Other World... the world where something like spirits/magical beasts/fairies can live basically in both cultures.  

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Toothfairoes used to be mice. Kinda. 

… commenter veryscarydragon says: mice and rodents eat antlers and bones and teeth in the wilderness.  Seems to be true https://iere.org/why-do-rodents-eat-antlers/

See Pianotm’s comment. Lord Byron did initial ghost story contest, that’s why ppl contestants wrote him as a vamp. And GRIM REAPER. Based in Greek… the titan Kronos lord of time w his scythe, …. Being Charon the boatman…then associated w the Black Plague as roaming the streets of Europe really solodified him personified as dearh.