Whose considered the queen of all flower/garden/woodland fairies?

Well, it depends, but two clear literary and folkloric candidates for queen of the woodland fairies would be:



Queen Mab---often a "negative" figure, Queen Mab is one Queen of the Fairies in English folklore and myth. She is a woodland queen, associated with ideas of chaos and unreason, both in negative and positive aspects. One function she has is to be a thief of children, which reflects her origin as the Cardea Goddess archetype (the Goddess as Protector of Children/Devourer of Children). Her origins are as the Celtic Goddess Maeve or Mabbe in ancient Wales, and like so many Celtic goddesses in Britain she became a "fairy" after the Christianization of that part of the world. She is associated with dairies, meadows, flowers, and appears in plays such as Ben Jonson's *Entertainment at Althorpe*, and is mentioned in Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet*.



Queen Titania---the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream* bears more obvious signs of coming from further East than Mab, in that she traces her ancestry back to the jealous Mother-Goddesses/Divine Wives of the Mediterranean Basin (e.g., Hera, Juno, Jana). Through her magical association with Bottom, the man with the head of an ***, she is also a clear literary reference to Apuleius' *The Golden A*s,* which tells the story of a man turned into an a*s (think donkey, but with censorship by the always-vigilant Yahoo Answers) by witchcraft but healed and restored to human form by the Goddess Isis. Titania is more eroticized than Mab, and has fewer menacing characteristics.
Whose considered the queen of all flower/garden/woodland fairies?
I see Queen Mab hath been with you...

Perhaps Titania and Mab are sisters...
Reply:snowbaal mentioned both that I was going to:



Mab



Titania
Reply:Titania is Shakespeare's adaptation of Mab.

Maeb was the only true queen of the fairies. As unquestionable as the fact that Oberon was the king of the elves.
Reply:would agree with the above but would also add in Morgaine le Fay of the Arthurian legends as a likely candidate.



just a thought.



SD