What is the name of the fairy who helped Peter Pan?
Peter Pan learns about the world in order to stay childlike. Peter's ability to fly is explained, but inconsistently. In "The Little White Bird", he is able to fly because he is said to be part bird, like all babies. In the play and novel, he teaches the Darling children to fly using a combination of "lovely wonderful thoughts" and fairy dust. In Barrie's Dedication to the play "Peter Pan, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow up", the author attributes the idea of fairy dust being necessary for flight to practical needs: ...after the first production I had to add something to the
Peter Pan production in 1927, where Jean Forbes-Robertson took the title role, and played the part with a lighter, more fairy-like, physicality. Robertson was to play the part almost every year until 1939. The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the five Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired the story, and Pan, a minor deity of Greek mythology who plays pipes to nymphs and is part human and part goat. This is referenced in Barrie's works (particularly "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens") where Peter Pan plays pipes to the fairies and rides a goat. The god Pan represents