8 Terrifying Fairies From Cultural Folklore

We often picture fairies as those little human-like beings that fly around surrounded by their little sparkly auras. They are usually depicted as precocious, like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, or beneficent, like the fairy godmothers in various Disney films. However, fairy-kind isn’t limited to these stereotypes—various cultural folklore depicted fairies so vicious and frightening they could make your grandmother cry.