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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.
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)
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
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.
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This depiction is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's fairy rulers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. [17] A fairy queen Gloriana, daughter of King Oberon, is the titular character of the allegorical epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. She is also called Tanaquill, derived from the name of the wife of Tarquinius Priscus.
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". [3]