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French Trip.

I have been invited to Paris, France by the fairies that live in my part of Fairyland. I am wondering if I should accept or not after all my knowledge of French is very rusty. Do the French Fairies speak English? Will I have to brush up on my knowledge of French? After all the invitation is for next week it does not leave me much time to learn. Then what do the French Fairies eat and drink I myself prefer to drink a cup of tea with milk and sugar. I am not sure that I could drink wine with my meals. At home we drink water with our lunch I am told that the French drink wine. Do the French Fairies also drink wine or like the English Fairies do they have elderberry and parsnip wine. I like these very much and I am often given a bottle of parsnip wine by the Fairy Queen Feeana.

What shall I wear?  Will it be very warm in France or is it still cold as it was a couple of months ago in winter. There are so many questions to be asked I think that my best thing to do is to go to the woods that form my part of Fairyland and get some answers from the Fairies. I first asked for a meeting with one of the wise old fairies she would surely be able to help me. Fairy Normafee was free to speak to me and I spent a very happy afternoon with her discussing France and the French fairies. I now knew that I could go to France with the Fairies and not have to worry about speaking French. The French Fairies also drank the dew that settles overnight on the plants and grasses, trees and bushes. They also drink elderberry wine and parsnip wine. The food is the same as Fairy food all over the world.

The day arrived when I with a small suitcase made my way to Fairyland. All of the little folk were there and it promised to be a very lively trip. Soon Her Majesty Feeana arrived and we were now ready and waiting for her to wave her magic wand. A bright light a small puff of smoke and we were in France. We landed in a huge field of Lavender in the Provence the smell was lovely everywhere the eye could see were lavender bushes all in full bloom. We were greeted by a committee of French Fairies and made very welcome all the Fairies spoke English so I had no need to worry about speaking French.

We were taken from the lavender fields to French Fairyland. It was as far as I could tell very much like all the other parts of Fairyland that I had in the past visited. The small neat houses some built direct in the treetops, others in hollow trees and some under the roots of the trees. Living under the roots of the trees had the advantage that one was always cool in the hot summer months. Here the flowers were much like the English wild flowers. To hang out the fairy washing there were washing lines spun by spiders just like in England.

We spent the first day getting to know the French Fairies. Some of the French Fairies had visited England and knew one or two of the English Fairies. I got on well with the little folk I was a good listener and the Fairies confided in me. A witch that wanted to learn the secret of how to make a Fairy Magic wand was troubling the French Fairies. Through her cunning the old witch had found out that one needed wood from a Yew tree, also that certain flowers were used in the process most of these flowers she knew and it would not be long before she could make and use Fairy wands for her evil purposes.

This was serious and I told her Majesty Queen Feeana of the witch’s evil intentions. Her Majesty was not alarmed and she told me a secret that when making a magic wand one must know the old language and a spell was always spoken in the old tongue. Without this spell the old witch could never make a wand even if she had all of the ingredients. The old tongue was taught to the Fairies in school and it was very difficult to learn. The old tongue as they called it was something similar to the Welsh language and this was based on the old Celtic language that hardly anyone could speak in our day and age.

Queen Feeana dressed as a French country maiden went to see the old witch just to make sure that she had not stumbled on to any of the old Parchments that held the written version of the old language. Going to the witches house she told the witch that she was looking for work as a kitchen maid and would work just for her board and lodging she did not want any money. The witch was delighted to get a strong healthy young girl to do her housework and agreed that the maiden, Queen Feeana in disguise could work for her. The old witch showed Queen Feeana where she could sleep and the small kitchen where she expected her to cook the meals.

The old witch then went off into the woods collecting herbs and roots and flowers for her spell making. This gave Queen Feeana the chance to look for any signs that the witch knew any thing about the old language. Queen Feeana found nothing in the house and was going to leave and then she had another idea. When the witch came back home to her house with a sack of herbs. Feeana sang a song in the old tongue carefully watching the witch for any reaction she might have. The witch did not react at all, she had no knowledge of the old tongue so the secret of making a magic wand.

Queen Feeana told me that I could tell the French Fairies that they had no need to worry the witch would never be able to make a wand and there was no danger for them at all. On the day that we went home one of the French Fairies gave me a present of a leather bag full of truffles. Truffles grow in the ground and normally the humans need a trained dog or a trained pig to smell them under the earth. The fairies need no trained animals they can sense them and just dig them out.