...[fairy]] or [[hobgoblin]], a prankster who is the domesticated aspect of [[Puck]].
...s a retelling of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' from the point of view of [[Puck]].
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*[[Puck]]
[[Category:Irish mythology]]
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'''Puck''' is a mischievous pre-Christian nature spirit.
Since, if you "speak of the Devil" he will appear, Puck's euphemistic "disguised" name is "Robin Goodfellow" or "Hobgoblin," in whi
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The '''Curupira''' is a forest spirit in Tupi mythology, an indigeneous ethic group leaving in the Brazilian rainforests.
*[[Puck]]
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The '''Fauns''' come from [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]] and are similar to the [[satyr]]. They are the children of the god Faunus
In [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], '''fauns''' are place-spirits (''genii'') of untamed woodland. Romans co
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In [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], [[Pan]]'s counterpart aunus was known as the father of '''Bona Dea''' ([
*[[Puck]]
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*K.M.Briggs, T''he Anatomy of Puck'' (p 195).
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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...er characters in the play. Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's henchman Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a rude mechanical that has been given
...ies, and is a major supporting character in ''The Books of Magic''. In the mythology of those comic series, she is a mortal woman, who has lived and ruled in fa
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...ntenance is also reminiscent of a satyr or the appearance of Shakespeare’s Puck character in his play, ''A Midsummer’s Nights Dream.''
...lorglin of danger of an approaching army. In that goat’s honor, the recent Puck Fair was born. Perhaps we can speculate that it was indeed one of the phook
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...ish]] [[Herne the Hunter]], the Hindu [[Pashupati]], the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] [[Pan]] and the [[satyr]]s, and even the Paleolithic cave painting
A number of related British folk figures have been incorporated as well: [[Puck]], [[Robin Goodfellow]], and the [[Green Man]].
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...trickster; by extension he is linked to such mythological characters as '''Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Robin Hood, the Green Knight''' and others.
[[Category:English mythology]]
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==Roman mythology: Faunus==
In Roman mythology, Pan's counterpart '''Faunus''' was known as the father of Bona Dea (Fauna,
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...mans and the dangerous [[elf]]-like spirits of natural woodland, such as [[Puck]]. The wildman, ''pilosus'' or hairy all over, often armed with a rough clu
...ten applied to beings that seem more human than ape, or that have strong [[mythology|mythological]] or supernatural overtones.
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In the tradition of similar entities such as [[Puck]] and the [[Kelpie]], Kludde was a trickster spirit, although its tricks ra
[[Category: Belgian mythology]]
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...]] or supernatural being that is found in the legends, [[folklore]], and [[mythology]] of many different cultures. They are generally humanoid in their appearan
...ly beings with mystical abilities (either the [[elves]] (or equivalent) in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendants in English folklore), while "fae
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...ng the cycle of growth being reborn anew each spring. Speculatively, the [[mythology]] of the Green Man developed independently in the traditions of separate an
...ted that the story of Robin Hood was at least partly born of the Green Man mythology. (A more modern embodiment might be found in Peter Pan, who enters the civi
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...er [[supernatural]] beings attempting to lead travellers astray (compare [[Puck]]). Sometimes they are believed to be the spirits of unbaptized or stillbo
...of the foxfire produced from [[Kitsune]], an interesting way of combining mythology of the West with that of the East.
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*In ''Magic Street'' by Orson Scott Card, the character of Puck suggest that Queen Mab and Titania, of A Midsummer Night's Dream, are in fa
[[Category: English mythology]]
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Since most beings from [[:Category:Scandinavian mythology|Scandinavian mythology]] are said to be afraid of steel, Scandinavian parents often placed a steel
...rother says his mother used to say that "Rollie was a changeling" and that Puck took her good baby.
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An '''elf''' (pl. ''elves'') is a creature of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertili
...ively, a connection to the ''[[Rbhus]]'', semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, has also been suggested. Originally ''ælf''/''elf'' and it's plural ''æl
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