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Tinker Bell is a fairy in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play & 1911 novel Peter & Wendy. At times bad tempered and other times kind, extremes in her personality are due to a fairy's size preventing more than one feeling at a time.
(art by Marc Davis)

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In Slavic folklore, the rusalka is a typically feminine entity, often malicious toward mankind and frequently associated with water. They may originally stem from Slavic paganism where they may have been seen as benevolent spirits.

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¿ No sabes que todo el mundo
tiene su propio país de las hadas ?
P.L.Travers, Mary Poppins

Margaret Tarrant (1888-1959)

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Did you know? The word “Elf” originated from the Germanic language and originally meant: White Being

🖼Benni A.
🖼Clint Clearley
🖼Hoàng Lâp (Solan)

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“For if the Princess prick her finger
Upon a spindle, then she shall be lost
As a child wandering in a glade of thorn,
With sleep like roses blowing soft, forlorn,
Upon each bough. This, madam, is the cost
Of your dark rudeness. But I will not linger." 🖤

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Celtic Vampire-lore Scottish Baobhan Sith means “fairy woman”who appears as a red-head wearing a flowing Green gown that covers her deer hooves, in-place of feet. This night creature drinks human blood and sleeps in the day. She can morph into a crow or raven

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A Rehearsal in Fairy Land, illustration from 'In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World' by William Allingham and Andrew Lang by Richard Doyle

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In Philippine folklore after a storm Maria Makiling walks the forest fixing broken branches, repairing damaged bird nests, healing the broken wings of butterflies. Where she walks the sun shines, birds sing, flowers bloom https://t.co/3Y8vDLSkSC

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"Elves still at times are seen: present and yet remote, a living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of Time."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


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Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower of along with the rose. Twined around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. Img: Cicely Mary Barker

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According to Celtic mythology fairy rings are cause by fairies and elves dancing around in a circle at night. If any human who stumbles upon these festivities enters the fairy ring, They are forced to dance until they are driven insane or die.
🎨William Holmes

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A (in French [lytɛ̃]) is a type of hobgoblin. A French fairy tale, "Le Prince Lutin", written in 1697 by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy has a description of the "air, water & terrestrial lutin": "You are invisible when you like it; you cross in one moment
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Irish fairies lived underground and inside certain hills and forts. There was once a large fairy fort on the Shimna River, near Newcastle Co.Down, where their music was often heard...

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"The Queen of Fairies she caught me,
In yon green hill to dwell.
And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, an eerie tale to tell,
Aye, at the end of seven years,
We pay a tithe to Hell.
I am so fair and full of flesh,
I'm feared it be mysel'"
-Tam Lin (Scottish poem)

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In Irish folklore, fairies were once regarded as fallen angels...

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In Scots Gaelic myth, faeries were regarded as either nature spirits or as spirits of the dead. They would exist in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation. There's a similar belief regarding elves in N. Europe


art: The Fairy Raid by Noel Paton

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John Bauer's illustrations for 'Sagan om aldtjuren Skutt och lilla prinsessan Tuvstarr' (Helge Kjellin)
/"Сказка про лося Скутта и принцессу Тувстарр"/

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Fantasy art featuring goblins for Production art for movie.
Character sketches by Brian Froud for Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986).

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"Fayiz & the Peri Wife" is a Persian tale of a farmer who leaves his wife & sons to marry a beautiful peri, a winged, fairy-like being. One day the peri lets him visit his human family. He spills the secret of his peri wife, & she banishes him from her realm.

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