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A fairy ring (possibly Chlorophyllum molybdites) on a suburban lawn in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring [1] or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. [2] They are found mainly in forested areas, but also appear in grasslands [3] or rangelands.
The Rings of Power are magical artefacts in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, most prominently in his high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.The One Ring first appeared as a plot device, a magic ring in Tolkien's children's fantasy novel, The Hobbit; Tolkien later gave it a backstory and much greater power.
Svíagriss, Adils' prized ring in the Hrólfr Kraki's saga. (Norse mythology) Stone and Ring of Eluned the Fortunate, a cloak of invisibility owned by Merlin. (Welsh mythology) Angelica's ring, a ring possessed by Angelica, princess of Cathay in the legends of Charlemagne. It rendered its wearer immune to all enchantments, and renders the user ...
Richard Wagner used Andvaranaut as inspiration for the title of his musical drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. J.R.R. Tolkien may have been inspired by Andvaranaut when designing the One Ring, both by making the One Ring cursed and by making one of its aspects to allow the wearer to find the other Rings of Power, knowing the location of the wearer of each of the Rings of Power, so that the wearer ...
Traditional medieval Arabic and Hebraic demonology both cultivated the legend of the Ring of Solomon, used to control demons and / or djinn.Tales of magic rings feature in One Thousand and One Nights, where the fisherman Judar bin Omar finds the ring of the enchanter Al-Shamardal, [7] and the cobbler Ma'aruf discovers the signet of Shaddád ibn Aad. [8]
A fairy ring is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. Pages in category "Fungi found in fairy rings" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Haltadans, also known as Fairy Ring or Haltadans stone circle, is a stone circle on the island of Fetlar in Shetland, Scotland. [1] This site is a ring of 38 stones, [ 2 ] of which 22 are still fixed in the soil, and it is 11 metres (37 ft) in diameter. [ 3 ]
According to folklore a fairy path (or 'passage', 'avenue', or 'pass') is a route taken by fairies usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as fairy forts or raths (a class of circular earthwork dating from the Iron Age), "airy" (eerie) mountains and hills, thorn bushes, springs, lakes, rock outcrops, and Stone Age monuments.