fairy vs demon

Thank you for finally taking up this debate. 1. Wikipedia, however, also offers us that fairies were:"Demoted angels A third belief held that they were a class of "demoted" angels. One popular story held that when the angels revolted, God ordered the gates shut; those still in heaven remained angels, those in hell became devils, and those caught in between became fairies.Others held that they had been thrown out of heaven, not being good enough, but they were not evil enough for hell.This may explain the tradition that they had to pay a "teind" or tithe to Hell. As fallen angels, though not quite devils, they could be seen as subject of the Devil."(This implies that fairies are not as impure as demons, but still to impure to remain in heaven. Note: the resolution is fairy vs DEMON, who, as an evil angel and member of the devil's party, is not the same as the devil, or the trickster, himself. Nevertheless, that is why fairies might be more powerful than demons since as a demoted class of angels who neither fear the church bells (" Disassociating himself from such evils may be why Oberon, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, carefully observed that neither he nor his court feared the church bells"--Wikipedia again) and possibly neither the cross, or holy symbols as much as demons.William Shakespeare depicts Oberon, the king of the fairies, and Titania as having immense powers who while debating with each other over the Indian boy she has taken. Titania mentions how:"Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Effect on wind and air Contagious fogs; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents: The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard; Power over agriculture and land The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here; No night is now with hymn or carol blest: Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, (Power over water and tides and floods?) That rheumatic diseases do abound: (power over diseases?) And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original. (Act 2, Scene 1)"It is clear that fairies aren't the little girls who "mended pots and kettles" or had a dialogue "the sounds of a tinking bell". Nor are the demons truly that powerful either. Wikipedia also states that fairies may also be:"Another theory is that the fairies were originally worshiped as gods, but with the coming of Christianity, they lived on, in a dwindled state of power, in folk belief. In this particular time, fairies were reputed by the church as being 'evil' beings. Many beings who are described as deities in older tales are described as "fairies" in more recent writings. Victorian explanations of mythology, which accounted for all gods as metaphors for natural events that had come to be taken literally, explained them as metaphors for the night sky and stars.According to this theory, fairies are personified aspects of nature and deified abstract concepts such as love and ‘victory’ in the pantheon of the particular form of animistic nature worship reconstructed as the religion of Ancient Western Europe." (Wikipedia, the "unimpeachable source). Dictionary.com states that a "god" is: a supreme being according to some particular conception and who presides over human affairs. A demon, drawing again from the same unimpeachable source, Wikipedia, it is said that:"Demons are believed to have the power to physically or mentally hurt people, but only within the boundaries of what God will allow. Demons can destroy any material on the earth; these supernatural powers are always inferior to the power of God. God may use His will to cancel or destroy any effect the demon chooses to invoke. According to the gospels, Jesus also had full power over demons, and they always obeyed his commands when he told them what to do, as opposed to a more general sense in which demons only do that which God tells them to. Demons, assumably, are granted permission to test, bring about trials, and to tempt people through the use of their destructive powers, to make people prove their faith, sometimes as a means to carry out the will of the Lord."There are many implications that one can make from this quote from Wikipedia. First is that a demon is not supreme, but flawed, especially in its boundary to inflict harm on the grounds of the Lord. (This limits all of their abilities, including the ones that you quoted about: planting seeds in virgins, witchcraft, invulnerability to fire, commanding or shooting fre, coercion, soul stealing, in what the Lord permits as a part of the Grand Design. I do not see how the Lord would permit, if we accept this, the demon to harm fairies, who are either demoted angels or even pagan gods that have submitted to his own rule.The power difference between the pagan god and the demon is somewhat firmly established. I call the myth of Lamia, regarded as the equivalent to Lilith, the bird woman (?) of Gilgamesh, who was cursed by Hera, the goddess of the heavens and the wife of Zeus, to kill her own children, while given by Zeus the ability to remove her own eyes in and out. (Wikipedia, "Lamia"). If we were to accept classical mythology (which was why I called the debate "strict",, meaning that it pertained to only certain parts of mythology and interpreation), then it seems that the pagan gods are more powerful than the demons. (And, the examples of the power of the pagan gods include control over natural world (sun, moon, nature, river, and so on--all a part of animism) and so on. So it seems that fairies weren't always so goody goody or weak, CON.By the way, I will give a contradiction of my own that I will let the voters resolve. In the opening argument, I asked Con to adhere to the fact that "remember, this is a purely strict debate. Classical mythology, and other religious mythologies, may be used to back up one's claims. In the end, the ultimate goal is to provide enough evidence whether or not older mythologies (not that of shows or comics--please) demonstrate which of the two, the fairy or demon, is more powerful and superior." CON disobeyed this by introducing the image of Tinker Bell and modern interpretations of fairies as "miniature cute girls with wings", both of which are not found in "classical" (from ancient to Renaissance times) mythology [Tinkerbell is from the 1911 novel Peter Pan.] I hope CON uses more traditional sources later on in the debate.I look forward for CON's argument and rebuttal. [Fairies' vulnerbility to rowan is not necessarily hindersome. There are several churches and monasteries in North America (which: Mexico: 95% United States: 79% Canada: 77%) And it is a common feature for holy symbols and possibly even the Scriptures in the homes of the pious. So maybe being afraid of holy objects isn't such a "big deal" after all.]