what's the difference betweem a fairy and a fairy god mother. in most depictions i've seen, a fairy godmother is always an old woman and almost always carries a wand. but a fairy never has a wand, and usualy has wings, wheras alot of fairy godmothers dont.

i know it's a stupid question, but my mind wandered, and now i want to know

a god mother that is a fairy.

like any god mother who watches over a child when the parent dies a fairy god mother does the same, except from a distance and usually invisible and uses subtle means.

Like a guardian angel, or a literal "god" parent.

all though in most stories where a god mother is "inserted" originally used something else (a god), an angel, a demon, a ghost, or just a spirit.

Also a fairy god-mother helps you while a fairy usually just play tricks on you. And there is only one type of fairy god-mothers while there are many diffrent types of fairies. There is the woodland fairy, evil fairy, good fairy, mountan fairy, asian fairy, ect.

the term "fairy" is over-used and has become ambigious for many unrelated beings.
putting it in the same catagory as the words, vampire, dragon, werewolf, and demon.

I think it would have been better to say something like, "There are many different types of Faeries" and list such as "Brownies, Nymphs, Sprites, Pixies, Leprechauns, etc." I'd name more but I haven't read up on Faeries for awhile now, and that's all I can name at the top of my head. Anyways, back on topic -deathanddarknesswithnaruto, those aren't really "types" of Faeries...what you named was more like... the equivilant of species or race. I forgot the word for it, so excuse my inadequacy.

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I akm not sure but there seem to be many forms of the "FAE" with only a few being Faeries. It is like there are many musicians with only a few being metal.

I'll venture an educated guess at this.

Fairy's are a generic term for some spirits that exist in many cultures and myths.
Fairy godparents with little magic wands that spread happiness about are a derivate of those, they're some fantasy writer's spin on the classic form of fae (in specific, the smaller sprites). Thus establishing itself as in what are now known as "fairytales", stories that are meant to inspire our young. Once Disney and various other cartoonists threw them into various cartoons, the hype was complete. A child after all needs to be able to identify with their "godparents", accept them in some way. Casting them into the role of a benign magical being suits that role.

Like anything that gets thrown in a tale for young children, negative elements are kindly left out, or polished up to not scare the children (needlessly).

I guess I was just posting forms of the Fae. However, there are many specific Faeries.

Dont fairys fly and the are little but fairy god mothers are human life sized and do not fly but have some sort of magical powers.

well they all have some some sort of magical powers.

and i dont know about the size difference, but it sounds pretty disney to me

lol...good question. Im guessing in the realm of fairies and things of that nature, that Fairy Godmothers are senior fairies? Like the little young fairies just create pretty little dew drops on flowers and prnce around and stuff...and the fairy godmothers are the ones who have the wands and can grant wishes I'm wondering where the tooth fairy would come into this equasion? maybe shes older than the young fairies and younger than the fairy godmother? I mean I have no clue I'm just guessing here, since I don't beleive in Fairies.

when I was little after reading a book about Irish fairies I thought the tooth fairy took the kids' teeth and gave you money as some kind of truce as they would eat the teeth rather than eat the children.

folklore faries are freaky little monsters.

but even imp like shroom and human eating little monsters can become girly playthings if they are cute (and confused with house brownies to the nth degree).

Personally, as long as we're on the topic of "Faeries" and "fairies" and "fairy godmothers"....

I'm going to have to agree with whomever posted that a fairy godmother was just a fairy who happened to be a godmother. The Saxons, prime believers in fairies, as well as the Irish, etc., and many other cultures around the world, would most likely never allow a specific fairy to be their child's godparent. For one thing, to be blessed by fairies, was to be troubled by them as well. Fairies were not purely benevolent in nature. In many stories, fairies stole children, and placed the cuckoo children in their place. The only way to be certain to destroy a cuckoo was to throw it in a fire, and if you were wrong... you get the picture. Giving any fairy maternal rights to your child was as ludicrous an idea then as it is today, but for different reasons. I also cannot stand the self-appointed experts in fairies who -insist- on the "Faerie" spelling. Before they were "Faeries", they were peskies.