Relating to fairies; magical, enchanted, or possessing fairy-like qualities; an archaic or poetic variant of 'fairy.'
From Old French faerie, ultimately from Latin fatum (fate). The term evolved from referring to the supernatural realm to describing anything magical or otherworldly.
Feirie is how medieval writers spelled 'fairy'—and reading Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' you realize that in the 1500s, people genuinely believed in fairy realms as real places you could visit!
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