“George William Russell, a well-known mystic in the early 1900s, believed the Sidhe, Ireland’s royal fairies, were at least as tall as humans and quite spectacular in appearance. In an interview with folklorist W.Y. Evans Wentz, Russell describes what he and other believed about the Sidhe’s size and appearance:
‘The shining beings seem to be about our own stature or just a little taller. Peasant and other Irish seers do not usually speak of the Sidhe as being little but as being tall: an old schoolmaster in the West of Ireland described them to me from his own visions as tall beautiful people, and he used some Gaelic words, which I took as meaning they were shining with every colour.’”