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La Sylphide Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co. Bourbon advertising label in the shape of a glass showing a man pursuing three sylphs. The Swiss German physician and alchemist Paracelsus first coined the term sylph in the 16th century to describe an air spirit in his overarching scheme of elemental spirits associated with the four Classical elements.
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.
Fairyland may be referred to simply as Fairy or Faerie, though that usage is an archaism.It is often the land ruled by the "Queen of Fairy", and thus anything from fairyland is also sometimes described as being from the "Court of the Queen of Elfame" or from the Seelie court in Scottish folklore.
Throughout the 1980s the Radical Faerie movement had spread out from the United States and had gatherings in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Italy, [52] as well as Folleterre in France. Black Leather Wings is an organization for spiritual gay leather folk affiliated with the Radical Faeries. [53]
Merkabah (chariot), Ezekiel's vision of the four-wheeled chariot driven by four hayyot, each of which has four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox, and eagle. Chariot of fire , the chariot that carried the prophet Elijah to heaven.
The strīx (στρίξ, στριγός) [b] was a nocturnally crying creature which positioned its feet upwards and head below, according to a pre-300 BC Greek origin myth. [c] [5] It is probably meant to be (and translated as) an owl, [6] but is highly suggestive of a bat which hangs upside-down.
The name far darrig is an Anglophone pronunciation of the Irish words fear dearg, meaning Red Man, as the far darrig is said to wear a red coat and cap. They are also sometimes known as Rat Boys as they are said to be rather fat, have dark, hairy skin, long snouts and skinny tails. [ 1 ]
A boggart is a supernatural being from English folklore.The dialectologist Elizabeth Wright described the boggart as 'a generic name for an apparition'; [1] folklorist Simon Young defines it as 'any ambivalent or evil solitary supernatural spirit'. [2]