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The term fairy was on occasion applied uniquely to explicit enchanted creatures with human appearance, gifted with mysterious powers, and a propensity for duplicity. At different times it has been utilized to depict any otherworldly creatures, like trolls and elves. It has also been used as an adjective, with a meaning equivalent to "enchanted" or "magical". It is also used as a name for the place these beings come from, the land of Fairy.
The belief in fairies seems to reach back into ancient times, being traceable both in written and oral tradition. Traces stem from the Sanskrit gandharva (semidivine celestial musicians) to the nymphs of the Greeks and Homer, the jinni of Arabic mythology, and other folk characters of the Samoans, Arctic, and other indigenous Americans.
All the more by and large, it concerns most creatures of the folklore of every country in the world that are linked to nature and that were venerated (now and again as genius loci) faithfully before monotheism expansion destroyed local and agnostic beliefs. Fairies are common in literature from the Middle Ages on and appear in the writings of the Italians Matteo Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto, the English poet Edmund Spenser, the Frenchman Charles Perrault, and the Dane Hans Christian Andersen, among others. Fairy lore is particularly prevalent in Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland. Asia, Americas and Africa have their own fairies, sometimes similar to the Little People.
In European folklore, a changeling is an imbecilic or deformed offspring of dwarves, elves, or faeries surreptitiously substituted by them for a human child. The belief in changelings seems to have arisen from the idea children are susceptible to demonic possession. Some believed faeries preyed only upon unbaptized infants. A changeling can be one of … Read more
Gnomes are very widespread species, known to a number of human races. Germans name them Erdmanleins, except in the Alpine areas, where they are called Heinzemannchens. In Denmark and Norway they are Nisse; Nissen is a Swedish variation. In Brittany they are called Nains. Tontti to the Finns and Foddenskkmaend is their name in Iceland. … Read more
Aka : Trolds (Sweden), Trows, Hill Men, Berg People (Denmark), Rise, Jutul, Tusse (Norway). Race: A dwarf or giant inhabiting caves or hills. Function: Legend places them as guardians of bridges and byways, though their help seems arbitrary and dubious. They are sometimes psychopump (passers-by) like Caron and the Ankou. Origin : Germany and Scandinavia … Read more
A goblin is a small-size fairy creature, described as a grotesquely evil and somewhat related to the brownie and gnome. Aka : Hobgobs, Gobelins, Hob-thrush, Blobins, Bogles, Bogies, Brags, Boggarts, … The word goblin is derived from the French gobelin, rendered as Middle Latin gobelinus, itself a loan from a Germanic term cognate to German … Read more
Elves (masc – elf from Proto-Germanic albiz (source also of Old Saxon alf, Old Norse alfr, German alp), originally found in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore, were a very mysterious race from the beginning of time. Later they became supernatural beings, mainly shaped as humans. They were worshiped in trees, mountains and waterfalls. Definition Elves is … Read more
Dwarfs are fairy humanoids found in the mythologies and folklore of Germany and Scandinavia. Origin In Scandinavian legends the dwarfs (duergar) were great craftsmen in legend. Some of their accomplishments included Odin’s spear, Gungnir and Thor’s hammer Mjollnir. They brewed the mead of poetry, and created many magical runes and songs. According to Snorri Sturluson, … Read more
Tinker Bell (sometimes spelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie’s 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy. She has appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan. Tinkerbell was … Read more
Aka : Melusine, Serpentine Race : Dragoness, Fea, Water nymph Origin : France, Germany, Switzerland Melusina is a famous nymph that married the heir of the Lusignan family in France and gave birth to eight children with animal marks on their bodies. Description: Because of a curse placed upon her mother, Melusine is born to … Read more