[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Queens: F

Fachea, Faife, Fachach, Faarkee Boc’han, Poganig, Boullig (Macareaux: Puffin Bird)
(pron. FA-ha, FAF-fa) Irish goddess of poetry. The puffin is a black and white colored 18 centimeter / 10 inch tall sea-bird that weighs 500 grams, about the weight of a can of soda. The puffin can swim underwater and is called clown of the ocean and sea parrot. They eat small fish, such as sand eels, herring, hake and capelin. It is common to eat them in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. (72, 80)
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