Shindy - a row, rumpus

A birthday party

    Every time a fairy-let, or baby fairy, is born they have what is called a shindy.  It lasts all day and night starting as just a normal party until sunset when the newborn fairy-let is introduced to Fairytopia.  All the fairies kiss the baby on the forehead for good luck in a long and healthy life.  After this is done, the fairies grab a partner and dance.  While the fairies dance, the proud parents sit on a throne made of birch and the fairy-let lies in a crib of birth, fold, and gems.  When all the stars are in the sky and the fire is lit, the parents dance and the god-parents watch the baby.  After the shindy, the parents and the fairy-let spend the night in the Hollow Tree Hotel.  In the morning, the shindy ends and the family goes back home.

Grog – a mixture of rum and water

Grog is a terrible and deadly disease to the fairies of Fairyland.  It is very common and is not contagious at all.  The reason grog is so common is because the fairy’s leaf-like clothes are made with the oily skin of a frog.  All they do is swipe their hand against the frog and zip off with the oily substance which acts as a paste for the fairy clothing.  Grog is given to a fairy if the frog croaks during this simple procedure.  After twenty terrifying days of grog, the fairy either dies or if the fairy lives, they are sent to the Fairy and Wings Community Hospital.  Here they live for a few days until they are healed, but they will never fly again so their wings are removed and put under the transplant list.  Sometimes a lucky fairy will regain the ability to fly.  In which case they are put back to work at the clothes factory as a clothes worker and no longer as a paste collector.  Being a paste collector pays good, too!  Fairies are paid as much as one butterfly wing and a snail shell.  Because of the well paid job, paste collectors usually live in a whole toadstool!  Most fairies live in a hollow tree with many other fellow fairies or they live in tulips and roses.  If a fairy gets grog, they are treated well and if they live, great respect is given to them.