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>Ogres were originally a type of fairy
Actually they weren't. Ogre in a classical sense just meant "giant, man-eating humanoid". It wasn't a specific thing or even category of things. It was a description of a collection of traits. Literally applied to anything larger than a full grown adult human that ate people and was vaguely human in their body plan.
Not sure where you got that idea. Neither ogres nor giants or trolls with which they are sometimes conflated were considered a type of fairy.
Trows (troll inspired fairies of the northern parts of Scotland) were fairies and are where we get the word drow which was later used for dark elves, another kind of fairy. There's also see-trow, another kind of fairy, but that's an unrelated mythological kettle of worms that's 2-3 steps removed from trolls.
There's also orcs which at conception were another word for goblin which are a kind of fairy derived from kobolds, but they're an entirely modern creation stemming from Tolkien.
None of this is to say no fairies are ogres. There are ogrish fairies, but that's neither here nor there.
