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The Elfin Oak is the stump of a 900-year-old oak tree located in Kensington Gardens, London, carved and painted to look as though elves, gnomes, fairies and small animals are living in its bark. The hollow log, donated by Lady Fortescue, originally came from Richmond Park , and was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1928 as part of George Lansbury ...
Ninfea (also Dextia, Guardian Pixie of Pixie Village's Codex, Pixie Queen) Winx Club, PopPixie: Animated TV series, comic Nini: Ojamajo Doremi: Anime Noemi: Winx Club: Animated TV series Nova (Fairy of Firelight) Nuala: The Sandman by Neil Gaiman: Comic Nymph: Creamy Mami: Anime Nymphs of Magix (Daphne, Politea and Seven Unnamed Nymphs) Winx ...
The little house gnomes are said to have done all the work of the citizens of Cologne during the night, so that the inhabitants of Cologne could be very lazy during the day. According to the legend, this went on until a tailor's wife got so curious to see the gnomes that she scattered peas onto the floor of the workshop to make the gnomes slip ...
The prince thanking the Water sprite, from The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884) by Andrew Lang (illustration by Richard Doyle). The belief in diminutive beings such as sprites, elves, fairies, etc. has been common in many parts of the world, and might to some extent still be found within neo-spiritual and religious movements such as "neo-druidism" and Ásatrú.
Pixies are considered to be particularly concentrated in the high moorland areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name. Akin to the Irish and Scottish Aos Sí (also spelt Aos Sidhe), pixies are believed to inhabit ancient underground ancestor sites such as stone circles, barrows, dolmens, ringforts or ...
A subplot in the 2001 French movie Amélie revolves around a "travelling" garden gnome. A two-foot-tall (60 cm) garden gnome with a long, white beard, red conical hat and blue coat is the central figure in Travelocity's Roaming Gnome advertising campaign which was launched in January 2004. [17]
Heidi Klum arrives at her annual Halloween party on October 31, 2008. Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic/Getty Images
In her translation of 1884 Margaret Hunt chose The Elves as title for these three stories. [2] The first tale is of Aarne-Thompson (AT) type 503* ('Helpful Elves'), also classified as a migratory legend (AT-7015). The second is of AT 476* type ('A Widwife [or Godmother] for the Elves'), also categorized as a migratory legend (AT 5070).