The Gaelic for faerie is Sidhe (pronounced Shee) and means people of the hills. At night these areas are ablaze with twinkling lights of more faeries than you would care to count. Are you sure that all of those "Lightening Bugs" you see on summer nights, aren't faeries? Especially if you see many in one area. As a child, I caught them in my hand and saved them in a jar. I wish it were so that I had never imprisoned a single one. I would be very sad, indeed, to think that anyone of them could have been the lovely Boadicia.

Each hill has its own king and queen, but they, like the faerie species, owe fealty to the High King. The best known is Oberon. He was the husband to Titania. Shakespear introduces them in his Midsummer Night's Dream. The name is probably connected with Alberich, the king of the elves

Oberon first appeared in the mediaeval French romance, Huon de Bordeaus, where he is a son of Julius Caesar and Morgan Le Fay. He was only three feet high, but of angelic face, and was the lord and king of Mommur. At his birth, the fairies bestowed their gifts--one was insight into men's thoughts, and another was the power of transporting himself to any place instantaneously. At his death, legions of Angels conveyed his soul to Paradise.

Boadicia is the Queen of Dubh Sidhe's Faerie Garden. Isn't she beautiful?