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Name Origin Medium Ailie, a tatterdemalion: The Elves of Cintra: Book Ainsel: Fairy Cube: Manga Airy, Anne: Bravely Default/Bravely Second: Video game Aisha/Layla (Crown Princess of Andros, Princess of Andros, Fairy of Waves, Fairy of the Waves, Fairy of Oceans and Tides, Fairy of Fluids, Guardian Fairy of the Kingdom of Andros)
The Aziza are a beneficent fairy race from Africa, specifically Dahomey. The Yumboes are supernatural beings in the mythology of the Wolof people (most likely Lebou) of Senegal, West Africa. Their alternatively used name Bakhna Rakhna literally means good people, an interesting parallel to the Scottish fairies called Good Neighbours.
The fairy pets are a group of soft toys from Earth that were brought to life by the Winx's magic. Belle the white-furred lamb is Bloom's fairy pet. Ginger the poodle puppy is Stella's fairy pet. Coco the kitty is Flora's fairy pet. Pepe the bear is Musa's fairy pet. Chicko the duckling is Tecna's fairy pet. Milly the bunny is Aisha's fairy pet ...
Modern English (by the 17th century) fairy transferred the name of the realm of the fays to its inhabitants, [2] e.g., the expression fairie knight in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene refers to a "supernatural knight" or a "knight of Faerie" but was later re-interpreted as referring to a knight who is "a fairy" Fairyland [3]
Germanic lore featured light and dark elves (Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar).This may be roughly equivalent to later concepts such as the Seelie and Unseelie. [2]In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth, dusii under the earth, and spiritualia nequitie in celestibus, who inhabit the air.
Stock characters of fairy tales, whether culturally specific names often used for heroes and heroines, or more general roles found in fairy tales. Subcategories This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
French literary fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Included by Andrew Lang by in The Blue Fairy Book. Madame d'Aulnoy: Abricotine Le Prince Lutin: She serves as a fairy princess of the Island of Quiet Pleasures. Princess Belle-Etoile Princess Belle-Etoile: French fairy tale inspired by Giovanni Francesco Straparola's Ancilotto, King of Provino.
In some of the works of the Greek-educated Latin poets, the nymphs gradually absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Carmentis, Fontus) while the Lymphae (originally Lumpae), Italian water goddesses, owing to the accidental similarity of their names, could be identified with the Greek ...