...tural 'beings', especially landvættir (land spirits), but can refer to any creature. By extension, the dead are grouped among the families of Vættir, especial
...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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'''Haltija''' is a spirit and often gnome or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology, that guards, helps or protects something or somebody.
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'''Sylph''' is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. "Sylph" has passed into general language as a ter
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
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...Goodfellow but has grown to be defined as a different species of goblin or fairy. In French folklore, hobgoblins are called [[Lutin]].
*The creature commonly appears in the bestiaries of fantasy role-playing games like ''[[D
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The creature looks like a black panther to some extent but other describe it as a cougar
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...h form is confined to the sea-coast parishes, and on the Norfolk coast the creature is supposed to be amphibious, *coming out of the sea by night and travellin
...featured in Icewind Dale II, where it is portrayed as a demonic, dog-like creature of remarkable intellect that nevertheless very much enjoys eating humans.
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The '''Nuckelavee''' (or '''Nuckalavee''') is an hybrid fairy creature from the Northern Scottish (Orkney) folklore from the Fuath family.
...type, is completely evil and monstrous rather than simply mischevious. The creature's home was in the sea but it ventured on land often to feast upon humans or
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'''Jack Frost''' is an [[:Category:Elves|elfish]] creature who personifies crisp, cold, winter weather; a variant of [[Father Winter]]
...at he is a much more recent import into Anglo-Saxon culture from a Russian fairy tale. In the Finnish eposKalevala Canto number 30, translated from Finnish
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The '''Black Dog''' is a creature in British [[folklore]]. They are described as being the size of a calf, mo
...', and other names. These are not individual names but are attributed to a creature living in certain areas. This type, more commonly known as '''the Barguest
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The series has revolved around a conflict between title character, [[fairy|faerie]] princess Meredith NicEssus, and her cousin, Cel. Cel's mother, Qu
...ht'', left off, Meredith and company are still holed up in the underground fairy mound of the Unseelie Court, with the princess still trying to get pregnant
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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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...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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...r at which point in time Koreans began viewing the Kumiho as a purely evil creature, since many of the ancient texts mention benevolent Kumihos assisting human
...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
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The '''asrai''' is a type of water fairy from the Lake Country (the Northwest of England) which was exceptionally be
...aw that he had caught an '''Asrai'''. It was a wonderful beautiful, gentle creature to look at. He had heard old people say these fairies only came up from the
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The '''Púca''' is a fairy creature of Celtic folklore, notably in Ireland and Wales. The Púca is considered b
...e folkloric depictions of the Catholic devil as a horned and cloven-hoofed creature that appears as half-human and half-goat. In many ways this countenance is
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In Scandinavian folklore, the '''huldra''' is a seductive forest creature. Other names include the Swedish '''skogsrå''' or '''skogsfru''' (meaning
...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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...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
...ale counterparts to [[ogre]]s. They are the annis (named from an analogous creature from the British folklore), the green hag (a green-skinned version of the S
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...nd from this cocoon the imago (adult) Mothra emerges, a gigantic moth-like creature with brightly-colored wings. Mothra's life cycle—particularly the tendenc
...any Toho daikaiju, she is almost always portrayed as a kind and benevolent creature, causing destruction only when acting as protector to her worshipers on Inf
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A '''tomte''' or '''nisse''' is a mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore, believed to take care of a farmer's home and barn
...h century, the tomte would gain popularity. In the English editions of the fairy tales of H. C. Andersen the word ''nisse'' has been inaccurately translated
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...is known to appear. This powder will usually break the spell and drive the creature away, and any gifts it may have given the victim, such as jewelry or fine c
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