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Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
From Thomas the Rhymer, "Under the Eildon tree Thomas met the lady," illustrated by Katharine Cameron. Queen of Elphame [1] or "Elf-hame" (-hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography [2] [3]), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials.
Said to be either a witch or Djinn, but derives from older regional folklore. Seems to have a weird amount in common with Elves, even being called Albis and causing a sickness known as Albasti. The Chinese huli jing and the Japanese kitsune have both been described as "fox fairies". Kodama - diminutive tree spirits of Japanese folklore.
Faeries is a book written and illustrated by English artists Brian Froud and Alan Lee.An illustrated compendium of faerie mythology, legends and folklore, [3] the book explores the history, customs and habitat of faeries in the manner of a field guide, [4] complete with hand annotations.
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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.
The baobhan sith (literally "fairy witch" or "fairy hag" in Scottish Gaelic) is a female fairy in the folklore of the Scottish Highlands, though they also share certain characteristics in common with the succubus. [1] They appear as beautiful women who seduce their victims before attacking them and killing them. [1]
The Bear (fairy tale) Bella Venezia; The Bird of Truth; The Bird that Spoke the Truth (New Mexican folktale) Black Bull of Norroway; The Blue Light (fairy tale) The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life; The Bronze Ring; Brother and Sister; The Brown Bear of Norway; Buttercup (fairy tale)