...an''' 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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...:Clurichaun.png|thumb|A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's ''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland'']]
The '''Clurichaun''' is an Irish fairy creature which resembles its cousin, the [[leprechaun]].
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The '''Cusith''', or '''Cu Sìth''' is an enormous fairy hound of the Scottish Highlands.
Cu Sìth literally means 'fairy dog.'
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...hology. However, despite being a spirit of nature, he is only one man or a creature, not a race.
Because of his absence in fairy tales or native songs, no no one is really sure from where Lausks comes and
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'''Balaur''' is a creature in Romanian folklore, similar to a dragon.
Balaur appears in many Rumanian fairy tales. He represents Evil and must be defeated by Fat-Frumos in order to re
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...hetland islands, a trow (alternatively trowe) is a small, troll-like fairy creature.
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'''E Bukura e Dheut''' (English: Earthly Beauty) is a cunning fairy in Albanian myths. She is the sister of E Bukura e Detit (English: Sea Beau
E Bukura e Dheut is beautiful arap-like creature, golden-haired, and black skinned. She may be a good spirit or an evil one
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...' is a local term for a complainer or a whining person, a reference to the creature's cry. Instead of barking, it only whines or moans constantly, as if in pai
...s on the road, although it can also appear as a cow or a horse. Seeing the creature is supposed to be an omen of extreme bad luck, most often the death of the
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Nobody can get close enough to the Nile to get a glimpse of what the creature looks like and run away. Those who pretend to have escaped described her as
...to pull the called man back, under severe resistance from the latter. The creature keeps calling in a soft, sleepy, hypnotizing voice until the second unaffec
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...where it is often portrayed as a clumsy, accident-prone, but kind-hearted creature who learns important lessons from God.
...ry from Gertrude Landa's (also known as Aunt Naomi) 1919 collection Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends.
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...nd fishermen on the Baltic Sea in their duties. He is a merry and diligent creature, with an expert understanding of most watercraft, and an unsupressable musi
...in a manner strongly in line with the original, benevolent version of the creature (minus the pipe). Strangely enough, it was ranked as the 49th most popular
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'''Genderuwa''' is a Javanese fairy creature.
...ruwa is usually invisible to mortals' eyes but may appear as a large furry creature similar to an ape, the body covered with reddish black thick hair that grow
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The '''glaistig''' or '''green lady''' is a solitary water fairy of the Scottish Highlands.
According to one legend the glaistig was once a mortal noblewoman, to whom a fairy nature had been given or who was cursed with the goat's legs and immortalit
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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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The '''Cat Sìth''' or '''Cat Sídhe''' is a monstrous fairy cat from Scottish and Irish mythology.
...idhe]], that stands for faery folk and/or other otherworldly beings, means fairy cat.
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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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A '''bugbear''' is a fairy creature comparable to the [[bogeyman]], [[bogey]], bugaboo, [[hobgoblin]] and other
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'''Ettin''' is a three-headed giant in English fairy tales.
* The name of a two-headed [[ogre]]-like creature in [[wikipedia:HeXen]], [[wikipedia:Stonekeep]] and the [[wikipedia:Ultima]
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...ey a similar creature was called the ''Nuggle'', and in Shetland a similar creature was called the ''Shoopiltee''. It also appears in Scandinavian folklore whe
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'''Dokkaebi''' is a grotesque-looking sprite or goblin in Korean folklore or fairy tales
...an made a plan to prevent himself from becoming a Dokkaebi and invited the creature to his house. He asked, "What are you most afraid of?" and the Dokkaebi ans
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The '''zana e malit''' is a mythical creature in Albania mythology.
Zana e malit is derived from the Albanian word “Zane” or “Zëre” which means "fairy of the mountain". The plural form of “zana” is “zanë”, a term fro
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In all manifestations the each uisce is a fearsome creature who can deceive and torment mortals. A sleek and handsome steed, it almost
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...sian: Тугарин Змеевич) is a mythical evil creature in Russian bylinas and fairy tales.
...sha Popovich, who is disgusted with the way Tugarin is acting, insults the creature with stories about the deaths of a dog and a cow (Bailey, p. 122). Tugarin
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In Scottisk folklore, a '''bogle''' or '''bogill''' is a legendary creature with a fierce temper similar to the [[boggart]] and [[bogeyman]] but used f
The bogle is a creature that loves to vex humans until they go insane. They may cause a human to he
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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...).
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...nd sometimes attacking the people it followed. In other stories seeing the creature is an omen of impending death or bad luck.
The Gytrash is usually a feared creature, due to its association with death, but it can also be benevolent, guiding
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A '''kushtaka''' is a fairy creature in the folklore of the Tlingit and Tsimshian Indians of Southeastern Alaska
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...hapeshifter. It may appear as a gigantic bird or a handsome young man. The creature usually assumes human shape, attracts women, and can be recognized only by
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The '''Nain Rouge''' (French for '''red gnome''') is a malevolent fairy creature that was initially reported in Normandy, France but reportedly emigrated to
The Nain Rouge appears as a small child-like creature with red or black fur boots. It is also said to have "blazing red eyes and
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...-Slavic) Vodyanoyovia have similar ways as the wassermann or nix of German fairy tales.
...ak wrote a symphonic poem entitled "Vodnik" or The Water Goblin about this creature, who is also a character in his opera Rusalka.
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'''Desghidorah''' (also known as '''Death Ghidorah''') is a kaiju creature battled by Mothra in the 1996 film ''Rebirth of Mothra''.
...ping, but the foreman removed the binding seal and thus alerted the wicked fairy Belvera to the discovery. Belvera secured the seal and released the monster
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...ful spirits and ghosts. These devices refer to a sprite as a preternatural creature.
...prite is shown to be more of a goddess of the forest rather than an elf or fairy.
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...ridge or in Llyn yr Afanc, a lake in Betws-y-Coed that was named after the creature.
The afanc was a monstrous creature that, like most lake monsters, was said to prey upon any foolish enough to
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The '''Zmeu '''(plural: zmei, feminine: zmeoaica/zmeoaice) is a legendary creature of Romanian folklore.
...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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...e the [[Shriker]], [[Aufhocker]], and [[Kludde]], Oschaert was a malicious creature that terrorized and attacked lost travelers. Its favorite trick was to jump
The creature was finally overcome by a local priest, who banished Oschaert to the sea fo
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...by the sailors of Vasco da Gama because it reminded them of this mythical creature. The legend of the Cuco began to be spread to Latin America by the Portugue
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The Ceffyl Dwfr is generally described as a beautiful but small creature who is seen grazing at the banks of a stream or waterway. It may tempt the
...yl dwr on the shores of Bae Ceredigion and aftewards he tried to break the creature to the cart. By means of an artfully contrived bridle he led the animal hom
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...klore and fairy tales, an '''ogre''' (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creature who feed on human flesh. The word was first used (and probably invented) by
...ille'' (1698), and was the first to use the word ''ogree'' to refer to the creature's offspring.
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...it is an omen of death. If a person attempts to beat off the Padfoot, the creature will attack and maul him.
...r than a sheep, with long smooth hair. It was certainly safer to leave the creature alone, for a word or a blow gave it power over you; and a story is told of
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...h puca (Christianized as "devil") as a kind of half-tamed woodland Sprite (creature), leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands (like t
...racter Guts has an elf sidekick named Puck. Depicted as a small fairy-like creature, Puck provided comic relief and teased various characters that appear as al
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...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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