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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.
Her counterpart in Scottish mythology is the bean sìth (sometimes spelled bean-sìdh). Other varieties of aos sí and daoine sìth include the Scottish bean-nighe (the washerwoman who is seen washing the bloody clothing or armour of the person who is doomed to die), the leanan sídhe (the "fairy lover"), the cat-sìth (a fairy cat), and the ...
Älvalek (Elfplay or Dancing Fairies) (1866) by August Malmström. In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves") [a] and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves") [b] are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the light elves live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at".
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 of the Greek Charites. These characters ...
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
Empusa (or empousa, pl. empousai) – A shape-shifting being with a copper leg in Greek mythology. Elf – Supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Erinyes – Greek female chthonic deities of vengeance. Fairy – Mythical spirits or legendary creatures in European folklore, also known as fae or fair folk among many other names ...
Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology; Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk. Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal
Dullahan was later glossed as "dark, angry, sullen, fierce or malicious being", [a] [8] encompassing both etymologies, though Thomas Crofton Croker considered the alternative etymology more dubious than the dubh "black" ("dark") etymology. [b] The Dullahan is also called Colainn Gan Cheann, meaning "without a head" in Irish.