green fairy

Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.

She used to buy the majority of her medicines from a local green fairy, but when they were busted, her supply line, like that of many other patients, was cut.