Some more basic facts about fairies

Although in modern culture fairies are often depicted as young, sometimes winged humanoids of small stature, they were originally depicted much differently: tall, radiant, angelic beings or short, wizened trolls being some of the commonly mentioned forms. Diminutive fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries, but these occur alongside the human-sized beings which have been depicted as ranging in size from very tiny up to the size of a human child. Even with these small fairies, however, their small size may be magically assumed rather than being a constant.
Wings, while common in Victorian and later artworks of fairies, are very rare in folklore; even very small fairies flew with magic, not with wings, sometimes flying on ragwort stems or on the backs of birds. Nowadays, fairies are often depicted with ordinary insect wings or butterfly wings.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein