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Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology
A water sprite (also called a water fairy or water faery) is a general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, according to alchemist Paracelsus. Water sprites are said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes can fly. These creatures exist in the mythology of various groups.
The Oxford English Dictionary favoured a Scandinavian origin, while the scholarly study by Erin Sebo of Flinders University argues for an Irish origin, on the basis that the word is widely distributed in Irish place-names, whereas puck-place-names in English are rare and late in the areas showing Old Norse influence, and seem rather to radiate ...
Sprite; Tiddy Mun; Tomte; Trow (folklore) Tylwyth Teg or Bendith y Mamau is the traditional name for fairies or fairy-like creatures of the Otherworld in Welsh folklore and mythology. Urisk; Vættir - also Wight; Weiße Frauen; The Xana is a character found in Asturian mythology; Yallery Brown; Zână (plural Zâne) is the Romanian equivalent ...
The standard German names would be Buschgroßmutter, Buschmutter, and Buschengel respectively. All three names are used to scare children and denote a female wood sprite with shaggy fluttering hair, large fiery eyes and very big teeth. Accordingly, a person looking dishevelled and unkempt was called Baschäinjel in 19th century Transylvania. [18]
The Waldschrat is a solitary wood sprite looking scraggily, shaggily, partially like an animal, with eyebrows grown together, and wolf teeth in its mouth., as summarized by Hans Pehl in the HdA. [2]: n50) But this is a hotchpotch profile put together from disparate sources. [38]
The Fänggen are female wood sprites in German folklore exclusively found in Tyrol. [1] The singular term is Fangga, Fanggin, [2] or Fängge. [3] Plural terms are Fanggen, Fänggen, [1] Wildfanggen (wild = wild), wilde Wiber [4] or wilde Weiber (both: wild women). [2]
Articles relating to sprites, supernatural entities in European mythology. They are often depicted as fairy-like creatures or as ethereal entities. Subcategories.