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Latinate fae, from which fairy derives, is distinct from English fey (from Old English fǣġe), which means 'fated to die'. [2] However, this unrelated Germanic word fey may have been influenced by Old French fae (fay or fairy) as the meaning had shifted slightly to 'fated' from the earlier 'doomed' or 'accursed'. [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.
The term fairy is peculiar to the English language and to English folklore, reflecting the conflation of Germanic, Celtic and Romance folklore and legend since the Middle English period (it is a Romance word which has been given the associations of fair by folk etymology secondarily).
Sophia Morrison, in her "Manx Fairy Tales" (David Nutt, London, 1911), includes the tale of "The Fairy Child of Close ny Lheiy", a story of a child supposedly swapped by the fairies for a loud and unruly fairy child. The English poet and topographer George Waldron, who lived in the Isle of Man during the early 18th century, cites a tale of a ...
Fae: Related names: Faith, Fayette, Lafayette [1] Fay is a unisex English given name meaning fairy. Alternately, it is a diminutive of Faith.
14. Summer - Like Autumn, this fairy is one of the Sugar Plum fairies from The Nutcracker. Summer means "warm season" and is of English origin. 15. Vidia - The fairy that stars in Vidia and the ...
A possible equivalent to the Scottish "seelie" appears in the Welsh "sili," used in some individual fairy names. In a Welsh tale, "Sili go Dwt" was the name of a Rumpelstiltskin-like fairy whose name had to be guessed. [14] In a possibly related fragmentary story, a fairy woman was heard singing the words "sili ffrit" while she spun thread.
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