...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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