Minor/Major: How to Catch a Fairy Potential Scenario Ideas

Here are some scenarios I thought that could be used of the Catcher attempting to Catch the Fairy.

Context:
­­Catcher comes home, Fairy is in the House, with the house in disarray.
Narrator on Radio, How to Catch a Fairy

1. Wreath of Herbs/Marigolds
⦁ Catcher informed to put a wreath up on his door to repel fairies
⦁ Put the wreath up on the door, closes door
⦁ Fairy is behind the door, angry, Opens the door, grabs the wreath and slams it over the Catcher, and kicks him out.

2. Iron Poker
⦁ Catcher comes into House, sees Fairy in front of the fireplace
⦁ Instructed that Fairies hate/weak to Iron
⦁ Sneakily grabs the poker from the fire place, confronts the Fairy
⦁ Fairy snatches it from the Catcher and forces him back into the fire, which catches his trousers and he runs out.
⦁ The Narrator informs that unfortunately the Fire Poker was Brass

3. Drawers
⦁ The Fairy is sat on the counter opening Drawers, The Catcher comes in and closes the drawers
⦁ The Fairy and the Catcher end up in a 'close, open' contest glaring at each other
⦁ After an angry pause, The Fairy opens a cupboard door behind them, slams into the Catchers face, Opens the drawer and slams the Catchers Hand in the drawer, before running off giggling leaving the Catcher in pain.

4. Picnic/Cake Stand
⦁ Narrator inform that Fairies are attracted to sweet treats. Catcher leaves out a cake stand/picnic on the kitchen table
⦁ He hides quickly outside and peers in through the window, Fairy comes in, eyes wide at the cakes and jellies, begins to eat
⦁ The Catcher pokes through a large long fish/butterfly net, slowly moving closer to the Fairy who is seemingly unware.
⦁ The Fairy, while still eating, grabs the net, pulls it forward along with the Catcher, and pokes him in the head and pushes him back outside and the window slams shut.

Minor/Major Project: Idea and Research

How to Catch a Fairy

My idea for third year is a short animation, similar to an old public information video, in which a narrator guides a wannabe fairy catching into trapping and capturing a not-so-Tinkerbell fairy, and with each attempt he meets his demise.

Compared to kind and innocent fairies usually shown in media, much of the original folklore surrounding fairies mostly focuses on protection from the fairies/fae. In Celtic mythology, fairies are mostly noted on their malice and mischievous deeds. Some folklore includes Goblins, Piskies, water-based fae, such as the Kelpie, which lure children, men and women to a body of water and drown them, another involves swapping a human baby in place for an ugly fairy, named a Changeling, and a fast and brutal fairy called a Red Cap which is armed with sharp teeth and claws, which gets it name for once killing it will mop up the blood with it's cap, dying it red.

In folklore fairies have been shown to range in size, such as small as a flower, a human child, and as tall as an human adult, and that they can change size and form at will.

Fairies are believed to be spirits of the dead, guardians of nature, a supernatural race, and even demons.

Protection against fairies was prominent in folklore, and many techniques in repelling fairies consist of hanging a wreath of St John's Wort above a house's door, hang an iron horseshoe, ringing silver bells to which the sound frightens off malevolent, give offerings of honey, milk and bread on the doorstep, never enter a fairy ring (a circular mound in the ground which people believed if entered the fairies could 'spirit away' the intruder never to be seen again.) and sprinkling salt on the windowsill, and turning coats inside out.