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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 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.
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African mythology (sub-Saharan) Afro-Asiatic. Ethiopian. Dhat-Badan;
The name comes from the Gaelic words for a sweetheart, lover, or concubine and the term for inhabitants of fairy mounds (fairy). [3] While the leannán sídhe is most often depicted as a female fairy, there is at least one reference to a male leannán sídhe troubling a mortal woman. [4]
The Girl and the Dead Man; The Girl as Soldier (Russian folktale) The Girl with Two Husbands; The Girl Without Hands; Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What; The Goat Girl; The Goat-Faced Girl; Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; The Golden Bird (Berber folktale) The Golden Fish, The Wonder-working Tree and the Golden Bird; Golden Hair (fairy tale)
Halfling is a word used in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Northern England for a boy or girl who is not yet fully grown; a youth, an adolescent, and formerly sometimes a boy or young man employed in a junior role in domestic, agricultural, or industrial work. [1]
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.
The playable character Sigewinne is a member of this race with a unique human-like appearance. In Ravenswatch, Melusine is a playable character. In Fate/Grand Order, Mélusine is a playable character who also goes by the name of Tam Lin Lancelot. Her true identity is revealed to be the remains of the dragon Albion in the story.