Milk and Honey

A small cottage surrounded by a garden full of flowers. The evening has fallen, the residents gone to sleep. The forest seems to reach closer, stretch its shadows as if to embrace the small cottage. On the stair-steps made of stone, a small porcelain, with a periwinkle painted on its side, filled with warm milk with a spoonful of honey. The shadows retreat, the milk is gone. In its place in the cup, seven little periwinkles. All is well.

The first few lines from the well loved children's novel "Little Periwinkle"

A Gift for the Good Folk

Those who have lived near the Folk all their lives know, that the best way to stay on their good side and prevent misfortune like a Fae Kiss is a little offering of something sweet. Freshly baked bread, lavender cookies, even a cup of good tea (not form teabags!). But the most classic gift to please the Fae is a cup of warm milk, seasoned with a spoonful of honey, and maybe a taste of cinnamon. Ask from your grandmother, and she can most likely remember leaving a cup on the doorstep, and the next day, she swears, the milk was gone. And never was there any trouble with the Good Folk. Sometimes they would even leave a small gift in return, living flowers, little frogs or small trinkets. You be good to them, dearie, and they are good to you.

A World Long Gone

The offering of milk and honey is a tradition that is nowadays mostly observed in the small villages by older people, who were taught to do so by their own parents. It used to be a very common practice in areas around the City of Wintermuir, Greenhollow and Little Ilmoor , and is even still practiced there today.