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  2. Huldufólk - Wikipedia

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    The Light-Elves are fairer to look upon than the sun, but the Dark-Elves are blacker than pitch.” [66] Terry Gunnel argues that the Eddic poem, Völundarkviða, presents elves as having a “Dangerous, supernatural ‘otherness’” to them. [11] In a BBC Ideas Youtube Video, Icelandic residents are interviewed on their beliefs on the ...

  3. Category:Elves in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Video games about elves (11 P) Pages in category "Elves in popular culture" ... She Chased Me All the Way From Another World!

  4. Nordic folklore - Wikipedia

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    The female form of Elves may have originated from the female deities called Dís (singular) and Díser (plural) found in pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. They were very powerful spirits closely linked to the seid magic. Even today the word "dis" is a synonym for mist or very light rain in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

  5. Elf - Wikipedia

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    The elves pose a threat to the everyday community by lure people into the elves' world. The most famous example is Elveskud and its many variants (paralleled in English as Clerk Colvill), where a woman from the elf world tries to tempt a young knight to join her in dancing, or to live among the elves; in some versions he refuses, and in some he ...

  6. 'It's magic': Here's the history behind the Elf on the Shelf ...

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    Someone has to make that magic, though, and while some parents enlist their family's elves as scouts for Santa, others make it all about fun. Valerie Seward, a mom of three, said her family's elf ...

  7. We've Made Our List and Checked It Twice—100 of the Best Elf ...

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    Here are the sweetest, most creative name ideas for your Scout Elf.

  8. Duende - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish, duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueñ(o) de casa, effectively "master of the house", or alternatively, derived from some similar mythical being of the Visigoth or Swabian culture given its comparable looks with the “Tomte” of the Swedish language conceptualized as a mischievous spirit inhabiting a dwelling.

  9. What's the Elf on the Shelf story? Here's how the beloved ...

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    Elf on the Shelf today In what is likely one of the most successful self-publishing stories of all time, more than 17.5 million Scout Elves have been adopted around the world since their debut.