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Scholar Warren Roberts names this group of stories "The Three Heads at the Well Group", and along other scholars, locates variants in England and in Anglo-American tradition, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, across Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Swedish areas in Finland) and in Germany.
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Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him "Les Fées" or "The Fairies". Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. [1] It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite. [2] In his source, as in Mother Hulda, the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the ...
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.
Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies. In mid-1917 nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in England from South Africa – were staying with Frances's aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, Polly, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire; Elsie was then 16 years old.
Every year, celebrities try to capitalize on the holiday season by releasing festive music. Singers like Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, and Michael Bublé managed to perfect the cheesy art form.
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.