They resemble the elementals and devas . This Fairyland, or Elfland, resembles the pre-Christian abodes for the dead. Fairyland is sometimes referred to as the Land of the Ever Young, which is eternal and beautiful. People carried off to fairyland cannot return if they eat or drink there. Fairy and human lovers can marry, though only with restrictions whose violation ends the marriage, and often, the life of the human.
Some female fairies are deadly to human lovers.
Female fairies may be fortune tellers, particularly prophesying at births and foretelling deaths. Gwydion ab Don and Gwenhidw. Shakespeare records the fairy-rulers in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon and Titania. Such a place is frequently referred to as limbo. Fairies are the fallen angels.