The '''Aziza''' are a beneficent fairy race from Africa, specifically Dahomey. Living in the forest, they provide
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'''Ellydan''' is a Welsh form of the [[will o the wisp]], denoting a type of fairy creature that has no other purpose than that of misleading night travellers
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...that at a certain time of the year ride through the air with [[ghost]]s, [[Fairy|fairies]] and [[witch]]es,
...he hunt was led by [[Gwyn ap Nudd]], also know as '''The White One''', the fairy king guarding the portal on Glastonbury Tor.
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...ly spelled as '''Attercroppe''', is a species of evil and wildly malicious fairy.
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An '''Alp-luachra''' is an evil, greedy fairy from Irish mythology.
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...munaa''' (or '''bungaya''') is one of the most famous of Okinawa's magical creatures.
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...and Shetland islands, a trow (alternatively trowe) is a small, troll-like fairy creature.
...legend, with which the trow shares many similarities, trows are nocturnal creatures; venturing out of their ‘trowie knowes’ (earthen mound dwellings) solel
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...omparable to the [[bogeyman]], [[bogey]], bugaboo, [[hobgoblin]] and other creatures of folklore. According to Webster's Dictionary, a bugbear is "an imaginary
*In the role-playing game ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', bugbears are bipedal creatures that resemble small bears. Confusingly, actual bears are known as 'bars' (m
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'''Ettin''' is a three-headed giant in English fairy tales.
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Peris are exquisite, winged, fairy-like creatures ranking between angels and evil spirits. In earlier sources they are descri
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==='''Serpents, dragons and fantastic creatures'''===
...d snakes of the first creation myths to the legendary hybrid and fantastic creatures
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...f other traditions. They are variously believed to live underground in the fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with
...seen as fierce guardians of their abodes - whether that be a fairy hill, a fairy ring, a special tree (often a hawthorn), or perhaps a particular loch or wo
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Leanan Sidhe instead means both ''fairy mistress'' or ''fairy sweetheart'' for she used to take an artist as lover.
The ''Fairy Mistress'' seems to be fond of poets and musicians, inspiring them with her
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...s specific in meaning than the Sindarin, meaning "bogey". For the specific creatures called yrch by the Sindar, the Quenya word orco, with plurals orcor and orq
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...s black-skinned pigs, but there has been a considerable variety of strange creatures reported haunting hallowed grounds.
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...e backward feet and the fierce protectiveness toward the forest and forest creatures.
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The '''Heinzelmännchen''' are a race of fairy creatures similar to [[kobold]]s appearing in a tale connected with the city of Colog
...lated into English by Thomas Keightley and published 1828 in his book "The Fairy Mythology". In 1836 the painter and poet August Kopisch published a famous
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The '''nagumwasuck''' are fairy creatures known in the foklore of the Passamaquoddy indian tribe.
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Mothers had to take precautions not to leave their babies unattended in fairy country as Bendith were particularly ready to steal small children and repl
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...the Philippines. The term may also apply more broadly to all sort sort of fairy races (elves, goblins, pixies, brownies, leprechauns...).
Duende are believed to be ugly creatures of a small stature wearing big hats. They are usually more heard than seen
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...ries of their adventures at sea. Since life at sea can be rather dull, all creatures - real, mythical, and in between - eventually became the center of rather g
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'''Spriggan''' is a fairy creature from Cornish and British folk tales.
They form part of the fairy bodyguard as described by Bottrell and Hunt. They caused mischief to those
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...'''Baavan Shee''' or '''The White Woman of the Scottish Highlands''', is a fairy [[Vampire]] who appears to men taking a the form of a beautiful woman in or
The words ''baobhan sith'' (pronounced baa'-van shee) stand for ''fairy woman'' in Scottish Gaelic.
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'''Grogochs''' are fairy creatures in Irish folklore.
Some say that Grogochs were originally half human, half-fairy aborigines who came from Kintyre in Scotland to settle in Ireland.
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A bogle is often confused with its many closely-related Scottish legendary creatures, such as the better known [[Boggart]]. It is also considered to be involved
...thouse describes those of north Lancashire and Cumbria as ‘spine-chilling’ creatures, which could appear as ‘a light, a ball of fire, a ghostly shape, a phant
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''Leanhuan Shee'' or ''Leanhuan Sidhe'' stands for ''fairy mistress''.
...he inspiration of poets, but both names mean the ''fairy sweetheart'' or ''fairy mistress'', so they are easily confused.
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...'', "the people's puff of wind". It is also occasionally called a "furl of fairy wind".
When dust or straw is bourne aloft by swirls of eddy winds, it may be the fairy court travelling. It can be dangerous when encountered at night, for these
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...akespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.
In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's '’Meta
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'''Hobyahs''' are cannibalistic [[goblin]]s that appear in English fairy tales.
While the creatures are not described, Hobyahs appear to be humanoid beings, most like goblins.
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The term '''sprite''' is a broad term referring to a number of monstrous creatures. The term is generally used in reference to fairies, like the [[elf]] or [
...in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits or other mythical creatures.
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...d by a hunter, as well as they could fly with [[ghost]]s, [[witch]]es or [[Fairy|fairies]], depending on the related folklore, yet hunting for souls.
...Fairy|fairies]], such as [[Gwyn ap Nudd]], leader of the [[Tylwyth Teg]] [[Fairy|fairies]], who was said to lead the Hunt in Wales and the West of England.
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Some legends also make certain ''tennin'' solitary creatures living on mountain peaks. Pilgrims sometimes climb these mountains in order
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...that hold good throughout the British Isles, and is indeed valid wherever fairy beliefs are held.
...rare, instead their presence were most often announced by evidence of the creatures’ activity. It was believed the bending of the grass, the rustling sounds
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...'''diwata''' or '''encantada''' is a mythological figure similar to fairy creatures.
In the television sitcom ''Okay ka'', Fairy Ko created by MZET productions, diwatas live in a mythical world named Enka
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...land, a '''pixie''' or '''pisky''' is a tiny elflike spirit or mischievous fairy dressed in green who dances in the moonlight to the music of frogs and cric
...lture. Fantasy books and movies such as ''The Black Cauldron'' feature the creatures. In film, their first appearance was in the 1912 film ''As Others See Us''.
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...he [[vetala]] and the [[rakshasa]] but of a lower order than both of these creatures. The name pisacha is occasionally used in a way that includes all the ghos
...tha-sarit-sagara'', a famous 11th century CE collection of Indian legends, fairy tales and folk claims to be a mainly based on Gunadhya's ''Brhat-katha'' wr
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An '''imp''' is a mythological being similar to a fairy, frequently described in folklore and superstition.
They are usually described as lively dark, shadowy creatures having small stature. They are usually, but not invariably, assigned male g
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...-Slavic) Vodyanoyovia have similar ways as the wassermann or nix of German fairy tales.
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...y describe mythical beings and nature spirits in the Norse religion. These creatures divide up into 'families', including the Álfar (elves), Dvergar (dwarves),
...titanic Jötunn diminutizes into a large Troll, and a human-sized Álfr into fairy-like knee-high Nisse. While the Trollir tend to represent the spirits of wi
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A '''Korrigan''' or '''Corrigan''' is a type of fairy specific to Britanny (France). There are several types, some of which are t
...irits who inhabit springs and river, sing and comb their long hairs. These creatures are very beautiful when seen at dusk or night, but by day their eyes are re
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'''Dokkaebi''' is a grotesque-looking sprite or goblin in Korean folklore or fairy tales
These creatures are said to love mischief and playing mean tricks on bad people whereas the
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...eir presence was revealed in the ghostly piping of flutes and the sound of fairy songs heard in the misty forest heights
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Often compared to other fantastic creatures, such as the [[balaur]] or the [[vârcolac]], the zmeu resembles the Slavic
...ing of the precious "golden apples"; a parallel can be drawn to the German fairy tale The Golden Bird, the Russian Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gr
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In current usage, the term is applied to a feminine spirit or fairy, and is often used in a figurative sense of a graceful, slender girl or you
...the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, as Air Elemental fairy-like creatures.
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'''Oberon''', also '''Auberon''', King of the fairy, is most famous as a character in William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer
...eron got its literary start in the first half of the 13th century from the fairy dwarf Oberon that helps the hero in the ''chanson de geste'', titled '' Les
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'''Coblynau''' are mythical goblin-like creatures that are said to haunt the mines, quarries and under-ground regions of Wale
...uld conjure up the faces and forms of gnomes and coblynau, of phantoms and fairy men. When they hear the mysterious thumping which they know is not produced
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...ortuguese that roughly translates as "enchanted one." The term is used for creatures who come from a paradiasical underwater realm called the Encante.
...encantados out in canoes have been said to have gone insane, although the creatures seem to have done little more than follow their boats and nudge them from t
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...("minutians" in the English version) are depicted as a race of tiny spirit creatures which are influential to the background of the teenage Ainu shaman Horohoro
...is "Kamui", which is the Ainu word for god. Issun (named for the Japanese fairy tale character One-inch boy), who travels with the protagonist throughout t
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In folklore and fairy tales, an '''ogre''' (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creature who fee
...Contes du temps Passé'' (1697). It later appeared in several of his other fairy tales, many of which were based on the ''Neapolitan tales of Basile''. The
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A '''fairy''' (sometimes seen as '''fairie''' or '''faerie''') is a [[spirit]] or supe
...ightening, or invisible. Modern English inherited the two terms "fae" and "fairy," along with all the associations attached to them.
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...t was wise to shout a warning to the tomte below. Like many other mythical creatures, one was also required to please him with gifts – a particular gift was a
The tomte was not always a popular figure: Like most creatures of folklore he would be seen as heathen and become connected to the Devil.
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...or '''crone''') is a kind of malevolent, wizened old woman, or a kind of [[fairy]] having the appearance of such a woman, often found in [[folklore]] and ch
...me, "[[Hag (Dungeons & Dragons)|hags]]" are at least three races of female creatures, sort of female counterparts to [[ogre]]s. They are the annis (named from a
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'''Dracs''' are fairy creatures in the folklore of South France.
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'''Satyrs''' in [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] are woodland creatures depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a
As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine, women and boys, and are ready for every physical p
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...se, donkey, or dog, although it could also take the shape of less imposing creatures, such as a rabbit. It was a road monster with elements of the [[Barghest]],
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...kers referred to fairies as "the little folk". Other varieties of immortal creatures were called xian as well.
...boo and sexuality. Nowadays in some areas of China, there still exist “Fox Fairy Temples” that are erected especially for women wanting to obtain charms t
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...he main character Guts has an elf sidekick named Puck. Depicted as a small fairy-like creature, Puck provided comic relief and teased various characters tha
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The term '''Black Dog''' is used to refer to apparitions of creatures which resemble black dogs though it is also often used as a generic term fo
...they are mostly reported, presents few areas far from water. Sometimes the creatures are malicious, outright attacking people or acting as omens of death, but t
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''THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY'' (1850)
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...e stuck together with blood, dirt, and excrement. Most authors presume the creatures are legendary and that all supposed physical evidence is hoaxed, such as mu
...features a seven-headed Mouse King as the villain. Another example is the fairy tale Rattenkönig Birlibi, by Ernst Moritz Arndt.
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...goddess, [[Fand]] ("Pearl of Beauty" or "A Tear" - later remembered as a "Fairy Queen", though earlier mentions point to her also being a sea deity). Other
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...gy, thus making it the container of the working force/life of a human. The fairy tale ''The Fox Sister'' depicts a fox spirit preying on a family for livers
...ht to be capable of omnipotence or creation at will since they were lesser creatures.
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...l scholar Paracelsus. In Germanic folklore, they also appear as fairy-like creatures; the name being interchangeable with those of other water spirits.
...ns by Rackhan. George Macdonald thought Undine 'the most beautiful' of all fairy stories, and the references to it in such works as Charlotte Yonge's The Da
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A '''gnome''' is a fairy creature that is characterized by its very small stature and subterranean l
...many similar but subtly different creatures in European folklore; mythical creatures such as [[goblin]]s and [[dwarf|dwarves]] are often represented as gnomes,
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...yed working on a single shoe. Originally coined by Thomas Keightley in The Fairy Mythology (1850)
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The '''Nuckelavee''' (or '''Nuckalavee''') is an hybrid fairy creature from the Northern Scottish (Orkney) folklore from the Fuath family
...ttish foklore. It is sometimes mentioned as an '''Unseelie''', a malignant fairy, and, unlike many other members of that type, is completely evil and monstr
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...and by showing physical strength, often by straightening a horseshoe. Some fairy tales leave out this feature, and let the couple live happily ever after.
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In some fairy tales, such as The Feather of Finist the Falcon, the hero meets not with on
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...rish folklore, the '''Bean Sidhe''' ("woman of the mounds") is a spirit or fairy who presage a death by wailing. She is popularly known as the '''Banshee'''
...or possessive case of "fairy" which means a female dweller of a sidhe, or fairy mound). In east Munster and Connaught she is called a "bean chaointe" (a fe
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...egion also suggested that the ceffyl dwr could transform itself into other creatures and this it became a terror of the night. Often it would change into a goad
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In European folklore and, a '''changeling''' is the offspring of a fairy, [[troll]], [[elf]] or other legendary creature that has been secretly left
In another Swedish fairy tale (Bortbytingarna) (which is depicted by the image), a princess is kidna
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...ght blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least very long-li
...he shadow of a man. This led many scholars of the day to assume that these creatures were the spiritual manifestations of travelers who had perished far from th
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...les. The Púca is considered by many to be the most terrifying of all faery creatures. One reason for this is its appearance, but its powers are also feared.
...s is brought in. Anything remaining in the fields is considered "puka," or fairy-blasted, and hence inedible.
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...''Dark Cloud 2'' or ''Dark Chronical'' as it is known in Britain. Here the creatures are dwarfed no higher than the main character's knee and wear a red cap whi
...Bethseda Softworks, ''Magic & Mayhem''. They are one of several summonable creatures that fight alongside the main character.
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The story begins in Los Angeles, California, in a world where magical creatures are "out of the closet" and, in some cases, even legal. Princess Meredith N
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...fox spirit [[ghost]]s, however this doesn’t mean that they are not living creatures, nor that they are not foxes.
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...atures ''The Princess and the Goblin''. He coined the word 'Orcs' for such creatures in ''The Lord of the Rings''.
...lins as oppressed by presumptuous "heroes" who assume the goblins are vile creatures and kill them for loot and experience.
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...Examples of lesser dragons include dragon turtles and [[wyvern]]s. Other creatures with the dragon type include drakes, felldrakes, elemental drakes, landwyrm
...silver dragons, which are good; and neutral-aligned ''gem dragons'', rare creatures that possess psionic abilities.
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...act in some languages the name ''sirena'' is used interchangeably for both creatures.
*Mermaids are one of the most famous creatures of popular culture, and are depicted regularly in literature and film. This
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