You shouldn't touch them at all! All it takes is for a hand to foolishly be placed upon a Kelpie's adhesive skin for it to drag you into the river and eat you.
You have to remember that with the Fae, those behaviours we collectively call "humanity" just aren't present. To them, there is no immorality or cruelty in crushing a human being like a child might crush a toy that no longer amuses him.
Well there a few things you can do to make the fey avoid you. If your female its something very strange and NSWF to threaten to do in a feys presence. No it's not that :)
I'd previously considered the Christian concept of Hell (as codified by the Church) as incompatible with the Fae legends, until recently seeing mention of a Fae tithe to the Hell in one other place, in which pagan theology was already thoroughly mixed and mingled in. Where does the idea of this tithe come from? Is this from Shakespeare, or Dante, or somewhere else entirely?
@DanialArin - To be honest? I have no clue. Well, really, it came from the annexation of the pagan tribes of Ireland, Britain, and Scotland into the Roman church, as they needed to demonize the old religion. However, it's since gone through several literary and mythological (mytholitical?) transformations. Once introduced, the story probably made it's way into the bardic tradition and then mutated, as legends are wont to do. Eventually, various forms were written down, leading to the legends we have now.
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