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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.
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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.
Irish fairy tale collected Kennedy's in Fireside Stories of Ireland. Included by Joseph Jacobs in More Celtic Fairy Tales. Collected by Patrick Kennedy Dotterine The Child who came from an Egg: Estonian fairy tale, also known as The Egg-Born Princess (Estonian: Munast sündinud kuningatütar).
The names of some of these fairies are well known: la Truitonne, la Merlitonne, Gladieuse [10] and Fleur du rocher. Some are of royal descent and the children of magicians, capable in particular of monstrous metamorphoses. [15] The fairies of the Grouin houle are an exception, as these evil fairies are described as cursed and cause much harm. [16]
Each story has its feet firmly planted in the real world, but serves as an epicenter for swirling fantasies. In one story, "The Lizzie Borden Jazz Babies," Sparks makes use of a tragic plot point that sets off many classic fairy tales – the untimely death of a protagonist's parent – and applies it to the father instead of the mother.
The origin of the word pixie is uncertain. It could have come from the Swedish dialectal pyske, meaning 'small fairy'. [6] Others have disputed this, given there is no plausible case for Nordic dialectal records in southwest Britain, claiming instead—in view of the Cornish origin of the piskie—that the term is more Celtic in origin, though no clear ancestor of the word is known.