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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.
Kushtaka – Shape-shifting otter creature found in the folklore of the Tlingit and Tsimshian people. Little People – various fairy/elf-like beings believed in across North America. Some are a couple inches tall and look like humans, some a couple feet and are hairy or look ugly, some take the form of human children.
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.
The Margot fairies show themselves to humans quite often and like to test them, a characteristic that is also very common among all fairies. [11] They are rather kind, not hesitating to render small services in the household. [12] They act as fairy godmothers, [21] telling the children they have named what they will be. [22]
Goat people are a class of mythological beings who physically resemble humans from the waist up, and had goat-like features usually including the hind legs of goats. They fall into various categories, such as sprites, gods, demons, and demigods. [15] Krampus – A Germanic mythical figure of obscure origin. It is often depicted with the legs ...
Rather than merely mocking the conventions upheld by sedate, waif-like princesses, she kept the appealing structures of popular fairy tales in place, filling them in with uncensored human subjects. In a wild mash-up of "Little Red Riding-Hood," Carter's "The Werewolf" follows a girl who chops off a wolf's paw.
Generally, the Sleih Beggey are seen as stocky in stature, and as domestic fairies, who lived in burghs. They are fond of hunting, music, and abducting humans. They dislike ashes, artificial light, salt, and baptisms. [1] They commonly wore green clothes. [5] Many were also known to steal babies, and in doing so getting into fights with humans. [3]
Fairies would also take adult humans, especially the newly married and new mothers; young adults were taken to marry fairies instead, while new mothers were often taken to nurse fairy babies. Often when an adult was taken instead of a child, an object such as a log was left in place of the stolen human, enchanted to look like the person. [ 5 ]