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The duende or chaneque refers to a fairy- or goblin-like mythological character. While its nature varies throughout Spain, Portugal, the Philippines, and Latin America, in many cases its closest equivalents known in the Anglophone world are the Irish leprechaun and the Scottish brownie. Dunnie; Dwarf; Elves are a supernatural race from Germanic ...
The English fairy derives from the Early Modern English faerie, meaning 'realm of the fays'. Faerie, in turn, derives from the Old French form faierie, a derivation from faie (from Vulgar Latin fata, 'the fates'), with the abstract noun suffix -erie.
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 word sprite is derived from the Latin spiritus ("spirit"), via the French esprit.Variations on the term include spright and the Celtic spriggan.The term is chiefly used with regard to elves and fairies in European folklore, and in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits.
Pedro Urdemales – a trickster folk hero from Iberian and Latin American folklore; Prometheus - Tricks Zeus over sacrifices at Mecone, steals fire on behalf of mankind. Puck/Robin Goodfellow - A "merry domestic fairy" from British Folklore.
Conversely, in some Latin American cultures, duendes are believed to lure children into the forest. In the folklore of the Central American country of Belize, particularly amongst the country's African/Island Carib-descended Creole and Garifuna populations, duendes are thought of as forest spirits called "Tata Duende" who lack thumbs. [6]
Cover of the 1911 first edition of the Ratón Pérez tale by Luis Coloma, illustrated by Mariano Pedrero []. El Ratoncito Pérez or Ratón Pérez (lit. transl. Perez the Little Mouse or Perez Mouse) is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Spanish and Hispanic American cultures.
Since the unvoiced Illyrian fricative th is considered to be analogous with z in Albanian, the Illyrian Thana (the name of a nymph, fairy or deity, attested in votive inscriptions of the Roman era) is traditionally considered the precursor of the Albanian Zana. [9] The theonym is also regarded as a cognate and equivalent of the Latin Diāna.