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There was a rivalry between the Munster fairy king and Finvarra. Famine was attributed to disturbances in the fairy world, and one folk informant claimed to have seen the "good people" fighting in the sky over Knock Ma. [1] According to many tales, Finvarra would invite humans into his underground palace for feasts. [8] [3]
The first King's Quest game features a fairy godmother of the main character Graham who can grant him invincibility. The otome game My Candy Love features a fairy godmother who will appear randomly and give the player gifts. She is a bit of an odd case in that she is implied to be an eccentric aunt who merely dresses as a fairy godmother.
The word pedigree is a corruption of the Anglo-Norman French pé de grue or "crane's foot", either because the typical lines and split lines (each split leading to different offspring of the one parent line) resemble the thin leg and foot of a crane [3] or because such a mark was used to denote succession in pedigree charts. [4] A pedigree ...
Maleficent, the evil fairy, casts a spell on Aurora as a baby that on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Aurora and three fairies, Merryweather, Flora and Fauna, move to a cottage in the forest and change her name to Briar Rose to hide her from Maleficent.
The Fairy Godmother (voiced by Verna Felton in the first film, by Russi Taylor in sequels and other media, and Grey DeLisle in The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse) appears after Cinderella's stepsisters tear up her dress, using her magic to transform her gown into a dress, the mice into stallions, Bruno the dog into a footman, Major the horse ...
In fairy tales, a donor is a character who tests the hero (and sometimes other characters as well) and provides magical assistance to the hero upon their success. The fairy godmother is a well-known form of this character. Many other supernatural patrons feature in fairy tales; these include various kinds of animals and the spirit of a dead ...
Seven things to know about Miami’s ‘godmother of cocaine’ Here’s a look at the real person behind the series from the photo archives of the Miami Herald: Photos
The term tylwyth teg is first attested in a poem attributed to the 14th-century Dafydd ap Gwilym, in which the principal character gets perilously but comically lost while going to visit his girlfriend: "Hudol gwan yn ehedeg, / hir barthlwyth y Tylwyth Teg" ("(The) weak enchantment (now) flees, / (the) long burden of the Tylwyth Teg (departs) into the mist").