Fairy Gardens have become popular with children, It enables them to fulfill their fantasy and have a make believe fairy who is with them day and night. Sometimes the term fairy is used to describe any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term describes only a specific type of more ethereal creature or sprite.[4] The concept of `fairy` in the narrow sense is unique to English folklore, conflating Germanic elves with influences from Celtic and Romance French folklores, and later made `diminutive` according to the tastes of Victorian era `fairy tales` for children. Fairies have their historical origin in the conflation of Celtic Breton, Welsh traditions in the Middle French medieval romances. Fairie was in origin used adjectivally, meaning `enchanted` as in fairie knight, fairie queene, but was used as a name for `enchanted` creatures from as early as the Late Middle English period. In English literature of the Elizabethan era, elves became conflated with the fairies of Romance culture, so that the two terms began to be used interchangeably.
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