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Disney Fairies Bell" film series, featuring the character and several of the Disney fairies as supporting and recurring characters. In Barrie's 1902 novel "The Little White Bird", in which he introduced the mythos of Peter Pan and the fairies, he wrote, "When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies." The "Disney Fairies" are based on a similar idea: every time a newborn baby laughs for the first time, that laugh travels out into the world, and those that make their way to