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A Fairy (妖精 Yōsei?, lit. "Bewitching spirit") is a legendary creature in European folklore. In the world of Toaru Majutsu no Index, legends surrounding different kinds of fairies are used as a basis for magic spells.
Principles[]
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According to Ollerus, fairies were pagan gods of old that were changed when Christianity became much more prevalent. Simply put, they shrank down the pagan gods (though without being aware of it). The king of the forest transformed into a dwarf. The queen of the sea was remade into a female monster that sank ships. One theory said the gods of the many old religions that conflicted with Christianity were reclassified as evil gods who fell under the category of demons. Those became clear enemies, but there were others that had been remade into beings that lived alongside mankind.[1]
Fairies are apparently seen as diminutive beings, being referred to as "small neighbors". They are also seen as either malicious or enigmatic, kidnapping people and ate their insides, or helped with one’s job or housework if certain conditions were met. Despite the spread and power of major religions in forbidding belief in them, fairies have remained in people's hearts. These beings had not been completely remade as enemies or completely eliminated. Unlike the evil gods whose great power was recognized but were seen as merciless enemies, most of these had managed to remain unchanged in people’s hearts on the condition that they were made powerless or shrank down.[1]
In the modern age, the word "fairy" has become commonplace. Religions did not treat it as taboo.[1] Children’s fairy tales (童話 Dōwa?, alt. "おとぎ話, Otogibanashi") (sometimes referred to by the term Märchen (メルヘン Meruhen?)[2]) and picture books (絵本 Ehon?), such as Peter Pan, The Golden Axe, and Snow White are well known.[3] However, very few people had accurately extracted their true form and original role from the flood of information. It was similar to how the great mixture of information on the modern internet diluted the trustworthiness and credibility of the information found there.[1]
Turn into a fairy[]
Ollerus, a magician who failed to become a Magic God, researched fairies and fairy tales and the weaknesses of a magic god in order to stop Othinus and her nefarious plot. He made a spell based out of the historical fact on how pagan gods were turned into fairies during the rise of Christianity.[1]
Called Turn into a fairy (妖精化 Yōsei-ka?), the spell is specifically created to counter Othinus the Magic God and bring her down into a field where she can be defeated. Fiamma of the Right was also taught of this spell as a back up when Ollerus' attack fails on Othinus. The spell appears as a glowing stake that comes out of the user's open palms, and is supposedly used by piercing the target's chest. The spell, if working properly, is able to thoroughly destroy the interior of the target's body.[1]
After Ollerus fails to defeat Othinus with the spell, she immediately knows how to use and uses the spell on Ollerus. As Ollerus too has stepped into the territory of a magic god, he too is vulnerable to his own spell. However, after she is forcibly turned into a fairy by Fiamma of the Right, she still became a complete magic god, for her becoming a fairy, though meant that she could no longer become a magic god, it also freed her from the 50/50 restraint of her power as she only needed to either gain 100% success or failure. Thus her being utterly thrown down into a fairy showed that she failed to become a magic god, it inadvertently turned her back into a magic god but now a complete one.[1]
Later on, after the destruction of Gungnir, Othinus is forced to use this spell, representing her negative possibilities, to attack Touma.[4] This later causes her to start losing her powers as a Magic God, as originally intended.[5]
Fiamma later devised his own variant of the fairy spell, with the spell being rapidly reapplied 2,070,000 times in a row on contact to destroy the target,[6] and attempted to use it against the High Priest, but was ultimately unsuccessful.[7]
Background[]
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Chronology[]
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Hawaii Invasion Arc[]
- Main article: Hawaii Invasion Arc
Two key members of Gremlin involved in the incident in Hawaii used magic derived from a fairy or fairy tale; Cendrillon, whose name, dress and magic were based on the fairy tale Cinderella, and Saronia A. Irivika, whose magic was based on the Leshy.[8]
Magic God Othinus Arc[]
- Main article: Magic God Othinus Arc
Magic God Invasion Arc[]
- Main article: Magic God Invasion Arc
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3[]
- Main article: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3
Many of the names of Stativari violins mentioned or featured in the Blue Blood incident, such as Ainsel and Tam Lin, were derived from figures connected to fairies.[9][10][11]
Uses of Fairies and Fairy Tales in the story[]
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| Skogsfru | A type of Russian fairy, that lives in woods and would fall in love with humans, but often kill their human partner due to their violent sex. | A member of Annihilatus goes by the name Skogsfru.[12] |
| Vasilisa the Beautiful | A Russian fairy tale about a beautiful girl who was oppressed and overworked by her stepmother and stepsisters, but endured thanks to her faithfulness to her dead mother and the gift her mother had left her.
Eventually sent to fetch light from the cannibal witch Baba Yaga in the hope that she would be eaten, Vasilisa completed the tasks that Baba Yaga set her with the help of her mother's blessing and was instead sent home with a skull lantern filled with burning coals that burned her stepmother and stepsisters to ashes on her return. |
The leader of Annihilatus, Vasilisa, shares her name with the eponymous heroine, and uses magic based on the tale.[12][13] |
| Vodyanoy | A type of Russian fairy, Vodyanoi are male water spirits who live in clear water (e.g. rivers). They are of a malicious nature, sometimes drowning people. | A Russian Orthodox magician goes by the name Vodyanoy.[14] |
| The Little Match Girl | A fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. | |
| Leshy | A tutelary deity of the forests in Slavic mythology, described by some as a fairy. | Saronia A. Irivika's magic is based around the Leshy.[8] |
| Cinderella | Cendrillon's name and her magic is derived from this fairy tale and its protagonist.[8] | |
| Ainsel | One of the Stativari is named after this fairy.[9] | |
| Leannán Sí | An Irish beautiful woman of the Aos Sí who takes a human lover. | One of the Stativari is named after this fairy.[10] |
| Titania | The queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
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| Tam Lin | One of the Stativari is named after this figure.[10] | |
| Pixy | One of the Stativari is named after this fairy.[10] | |
| Habetrot | A figure found in British folklore from counties around the Anglo-Scottish border, associated with spinning and the spinning wheel. | A spiritual item used by a Maid of Honor is named Habetrot 2.[16] |
| Oberon | The king of the fairies in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. | Shokuhou Misaki was assigned the role of Oberon during an enactment of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Tokiwadai's joint drama class.[15] |
| Spriggan | A legendary creature from Cornish mythology, sometimes classed as a fairy. | A type of security robot used by a secondary lab of the Dark May Project was named Spriggan.[17][18] |
- Ollerus (Turn into a fairy)[1]
- Fiamma of the Right (Turn into a fairy, and unnamed modified fairy spell)[1][6]
- Othinus (Turn into a fairy)[1][5]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08 Epilogue
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 15 Chapter 5 Part 3
- ↑ Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08 Chapter 2 Part 7
- ↑ Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09 Chapter 8
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09 Epilogue
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 13 Chapter 2 Part 12
- ↑ Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 13 Chapter 2 Part 14
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 03
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3 Chapter 1 Part 1
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3 Chapter 2 Part 4
- ↑ Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 18 Epilogue
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 22 Chapter 10 Part 2
- ↑ Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 20 Chapter 2 Part 10
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out: The Queen's Play Part 2
- ↑ Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 22 Reverse Chapter 1 Part 1
- ↑ Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 119
- ↑ Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 120