Origins Of The Blue Fairy

The Blue Fairy has existed in different forms since the beginning of times. Most know her as the helper from Pinocchio's fairytale. She is also known as the Egyptian goddess Isis and one of her forms is Virgin Mary wearing her blue cloak. In this lecture you shall learn about the origins and stories and symbolism behind the blue fairy. She often represents a mother figure who protects her followers and love and support.

Transcript

Andch Merry meet lovely people,

It is Nina.

You are watching FaerieChamber channel and time to continue with the Faerie series and today's Faerie is the Blue Faerie.

I think some of you might know Blue Faerie from Pinocchio at least or from Once Upon a Time.

The Blue Faerie,

Her origins,

They come from the ancient goddess cults.

The most recent effects that have blended into the story of the Blue Faerie,

They came from Middle Ages and from different religious characters like the Virgin Mary,

Shekinah from Judaism and Lady of Guadalupe from Mexico.

So all these kind of religious characters who are associated with the color blue.

Then these Abrahamic religions,

They were introduced to the public more and more.

The church fathers,

When they wanted to convert people,

Many of the pagan goddesses,

They were transformed into,

Not translated,

Transformed or tried to be Virgin Mary.

This happened to hundreds of thousands of goddesses around the world.

For example,

In Finland,

Mierik the Forest Goddess,

When Christianity arrived to Finland,

First it was Catholicism and later on,

Therianism.

Mierik,

If she wore the blue cape,

She became the Metsamaria,

The Forest Mary.

Then if she wore green cape or brown cape that were to her original colors because she is the Forest Goddess,

Then she remained as the pagan goddess.

But with the blue cape,

She became the Christian Goddess.

Can you say Christian Goddess?

I'm going to use that word now.

Anyway,

The whole mythology behind blue fairy is,

I think,

In the fairy tale literature,

That's where her character is based.

It is based on those religious goddesses.

Some of these most famous ones were Isis from ancient Egypt and her color was also blue.

She was very much associated with blue and those of you who have fascination towards ancient Egypt,

This kind of blue especially,

Maybe a bit darker than this,

That's the royal color and the color of the higher spirit in Egyptian folklore,

In Egyptian magic.

But then in general,

In Western countries and in countless other countries,

Blue is color of serenity.

It is the color of purification because it is the color of water and the sky and it is also color of high spirituality.

So this is why so many goddesses around the world are connected with the color of blue and so many religious figures as well because it is somewhat a neutral color for many.

This is also why Virgin Mary is so heavily associated with the color blue.

But anyway,

This is also why the blue fairy is the blue fairy.

I quite recently made a video about the fairy tale origins of Sleeping Beauty,

The fairy tale and it has some creepy origins.

But anyway,

In that particular video,

I talked a little bit about the fairies and different fairy groups and those special fairies in that particular fairy tale.

You might want to check that video if you are interested to understand more about the fairy lore.

Anyway,

The different fairies,

They are associated with different colors.

So fairies,

Depending what kind of fairies you are talking about,

Like in this case,

We are talking about somewhat a flower fairies,

A woman with wings and flower fairies especially,

They are connected to different colors and fairies in general,

At least to me,

They mean nature spirits and fairy can also mean just simply an invisible spirit.

A fairy can be related to actions of humans as well,

They can be related to actions of animals,

Everything that is about life and everything that's happening.

So the blue fairy especially is connected to humans and the human behavior.

Then for example,

The fairy who wears green color,

They are connected to the forest and they care about the flowers and so on,

The fairy who wears the red color,

They are usually more earthy,

They are connected to more earthy things when the blue color fairy is more connected to the spiritual and they are both connected to the matters of heart and the red fairies especially the matters of love and such things.

So all these kind of color associations,

They are also connected with the fairies that have those qualities that they represent,

The same qualities that the color represents and in that sense,

The fairy who is left with the black color,

Traditionally in the fairy tale,

She has been demonized heavily because within Europe black has been color of misfortune and debt and all kinds of weird things and it's not completely black and white.

I mean like before people started to wear white wedding dresses,

At least in Finland people actually wore black when they got married.

Actually the white wedding dress,

That was first time wore by the Queen Victoria when she got married in the 19th century.

This is the one who started the fashion of white wedding dresses and before that wedding dress,

It could be any color and if you go to China,

They were red wedding dresses.

That's because in China and in Asian countries,

Red is very lucky color when in Europe especially around during middle ages,

This kind of bright red,

It was very,

Very suspicious color and connected to the devil and all kinds of weird things.

And anyway,

I'm getting very off topic here.

So the blue fairy was obviously connected with the color blue and blue fairy,

You can find that from different fairy tales mostly as a fairy tale character.

Maybe one of these little fairy tale groups or fairy godmothers.

Like in Pinocchio,

There is a blue fairy who helps Pinocchio on his way to become a real boy.

There was a chart,

I read Kolodie's Pinocchio and I remember that I absolutely hated that book and it was terrible and now this spring we had to read it again because in school we had to illustrate scenes from Pinocchio.

So I studied illustration in university and I still hated that book.

It's terrible.

I hate that.

Well if you are familiar with my channel,

I like to analyze fairy tales a lot,

But that's one that it's just freaky.

Maybe I analyzed one day again for you.

Anyway,

It was really difficult for me to read that because the whole story,

It was written in the 19th century by Carlo Kolodie,

Italian writer.

It's not consistent.

The book is not consistent because it appeared as a series and he had long breaks between those stories to come out.

So it's not consistent and in each story Pinocchio gets into trouble.

He doesn't have any conscience and he's just like a terrible brat and he's really mean to everyone and you know,

You know Pinocchio's story and it's very,

It's much more cruel than the Disney version,

Which is like very,

Very tame even though some people think that Disney version is dark,

That hasn't even seen darkness compared to the original story of Kolodie.

Okay,

So in the Kolodie's version,

The Blue Fairy,

Such a weird character.

Then in the Disney version,

The Blue Fairy,

I don't know,

She's just pretty and just grants the wish,

That's her job only.

And then there's the Blue Fairy in the Once Upon a Time and I think she's very annoying person there as well.

I don't know,

These pop culture doings of Blue Fairy is not really my taste,

But still I find this mythology very interesting.

The way it's connected to different gods and goddesses and not gods,

But goddesses and religious female figures around the world,

That's really interesting.

Back in the days,

There was two types of animals connected to Blue Fairy.

One was a blue dove and dove,

That's very much a Christian symbol as well.

I can find that from many fairy tales that have like Christian origins,

Like many of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales,

They have doves landing and that's the sign of God.

Or the Blue Fairy could have been connected to fireflies that were blue.

I have never seen blue fireflies,

But then again,

We don't have any kind of fireflies in Finland,

But I think there might be blue fireflies as well.

And pretty much any kind of animals that fly,

They have been connected to fairies as long as there has been people talking about fairies.

The color blue,

Of course,

The animal that has the blue color that can be connected to the Blue Fairy.

The whole idea of fairy and the tiny flying animal,

Of course,

They make sense because they look a little bit similar,

But then from different myths around the world,

You can find this kind of belief of the soul being a butterfly or a soul,

A human soul living inside a butterfly or in a bird.

In Finnish mythology,

Little birds,

They were believed to be souls of their children or when a person died,

It was believed that their soul would fly away as a butterfly.

In Sami mythology and in Pathic mythology,

There is different goddesses that are also half little birds or half butterflies.

I think you can find that from many other myths as well around the world where there is this little fairy like creature who is a goddess in some cultures.

So the whole concept of the Blue Fairy goes all the way to worshipping different kind of nature deities.

So that's the story of the Blue Fairy.

I hope you enjoyed this and I will see you soon.

Take care and bye.

Reviews

Loved this talk about the Blue Fairy. Much gratitude to you and your studies. I am thrilled to hear you speak about the other fairies, too. Specificallly, the red fairy which is near and dear to me. 🧚🏻‍♀️

Thank you! 🌀💙🦋