5 Faerie Friendly Home Tidbits

Hello friends! It's been a while since we've touched on Faerie Friday, but some recent events among the witch community have inspired me to return to this Tuatha teaching tool. Today, I'm going to be touching on some good to know tools for anyone looking to learn more about general protection while working with or avoiding work with the fae alike, including some basic charms and tricks to invite them inside your home, know if they're already there, or keep them out.

1. Faerie Gardens and Spaces

A faerie garden can be located either inside or outside the home. I personally set up spaces in both, but those of you who are not interested in having faeries inside your home should stick to the outdoors! They also greatly prefer being outside, which will help in attracting the fair folk to your prepared space if you are not already in contact with them.

There are some materials to avoid all together when working with faerie spaces. Iron, steels, plastic, rubber, chemical-heavy paints and glues, and other similar things are harmful to many fae. Precious metals like silver or gold are acceptable, as are raw and un-worked ore stones.

Items that faeries enjoy are crystals, shells, attractive wood pieces, and other objects of nature. Moss, leafy or flowering plants, running or living water or otherwise clarified pools of water, and trees, especially the Hawthorne, are sure to draw faeries as well. Bells (again, those made of silver, gold, tin, ect.) and other things that make music when stirred are also beloved by the fae.

The goal is to create an aesthetically pleasing and natural looking space full of glittering and interesting objects and tools. This is an exchange of a safe place for the faeries to exist, either to ensure they stay outside, or to request their assistance in maintaining a faerie touched space in your home. While larger gardens and spaces are sure to draw more or larger energies, small spaces are also great spaces to provide the fae a chance to recharge and heal, especially in more industrialized or urbanized areas such as cities.

2. Hagstones

Hagstones are very useful to both work with or keep out the fae, interestingly enough. From my work work, I think this is because the hagstone serves as a doorway that works particularly well in channeling faerie energy. It makes a lot of sense, considering the very natural yet magickal way that hagstones are formed.

A hagstone is any stone that has had a hole, which penetrates the entire stone, placed through it by water or wind erosion. The can be done by the sea, creeks, rivers, lakes, rain, and various surface weather phenomenon, and as those who admire hagstones know, can be absolutely incredibly intricate and beautiful pieces of natural art. I have some pretty great ones pictured on my Instagram, and a few for sale here in my little shop.

Leaving hagstones set up in faeries spaces or just in your house in general can very often attract a faerie, if one isn't already present with the stone. Again, as mentioned above, I do my best to not leave the stones near any materials that may be harmful to my friends.

For those interested in using hagstones to keep faeries out, I recommend binding the hagstone with three sprigs of mistletoe or yew, and hanging it above your door. Before hanging the stone, attune it so that it will 1) keep the fae out, and also 2) allow the fae out of your home, but 3) not back in (hence the three sprigs!). Whenever the herbs on the stone seem like the need replacing, replace them. They should help assist the stone in doing its work.

3. Bells and Chimes

A set of bells and chimes near commonly opened windows or doors, or inside of magickal spaces, can also be used to alert of faerie presence. Leaving some cream and honey or a glass of good ale or whiskey beneath the bells can be a lovely way to draw them in. If there are faeries present in your home that have not been removed by cleansing and other spiritual vacancy methods, the bells will sound seemingly without motivation.

Charming bells is a good way to alert those who want friendly faeries only to those who aren't so good for us, as well. This involves attuning the bells so that they will lure and be sounded by those who mean you ill or don't have your best intentions at heart.

The metal that the bells are made of does have an impact on the overall efficacy of the bell, I think. Silver bells are much better at warding and clearing energies, and so I think they make much more useful tools when it comes to keeping faeries out, and keeping an eye on their intentions alike.

Gold bells and chimes can be left out for friendly faeries, however. Gold clarifies and empowers energy, while also helping to purify. All good things, for faeries and us alike!

4. Iron Boxes and Jewelry Holders

Okay, so what is the number one complaint being complained by people pestered by faeries? Stolen things! I know we've mentioned that iron is not good for faeries, but that is exactly why you should get an iron or plastic jewelry box or chest to keep your "absolutely not for you," items out of faerie hands, either to become lost or tampered with by nefarious magick.

I have an iron stand that I hang my actively charmed or interesting-to-faeries jewelry from. I also have a rather large metal chest that we purchased in my late teenage years from an antiques store for I want to say $60. It stores all of my crystals (probably the most common thing they take from me if I'm not careful lol) and magickal implements. They have both helped a lot in the number of times I've had to ask the fae to give me my things back, as well as the amount of energetic interference with my tools. As far as I can tell, my box doesn't seem to offend any of my faerie friends, either, if you are worried about that!

Because they can't get in, nothing gets messed with. It's a very simple system! And who doesn't like a nice vintage trunk, right?

5. Color, Cleanliness, and Emotion

Color and emotional energy have a large impact on the fae as well. Bright and cheerful colors, and happy emotions like love and joy are more likely to draw pleasant faeries than drab and sorrowful spaces. There are most certainly faeries who will be drawn to both. It's not really a coincidence that people who are bright, bubbly, and colorful are often compared to pixies or fae! The fae, at least those who mean us well, really like these things, themselves.

The organization or cleanliness of the space also seem to affect the type of fae that are drawn there. Dirty and chaotic places are more likely to draw fae who are prone to causing negative or chaotic feelings and energies. They may also be interested in perpetuating and increasing the mess and chaos once they settle in.

Wherever you are attempting to draw or work with fae, the goal should always be to work with them in a clean, colorful or natural, and happy space. This greatly improves the odds of channeling or calling in faeries that are orderly and kind, or less likely to be nefarious in nature to us.

How faeries makes us feel, and the types of spaces they make us want to be in, can say a lot about whether or not its a "good" faerie or a "bad" one. Just like people, faeries that make us feel uncomfortable or out of place are probably not good for us, and shouldn't be worked with anymore. By staying out of those energies and spaces, we are much less interesting targets for the faeries who need them to thrive.