Joan the Wad is a mythological character in Cornish folklore. She is the Queen of the Pixies, which are tiny mythical creatures usually associated with...

Look up wad or WAD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. WAD, Wad, or wad may refer to: Joan the Wad, a mythological character in Cornish folklore Nishigandha...

recorded the use of the term in a rhyme used in Polperro, Cornwall, in conjunction with Joan the Wad, the Cornish version of Will-o'-the-wisp. The people...

by the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty...

it can be cured by turning a coat inside-out. The queen of the Cornish pixies is said to be Joan the Wad (torch), and she is considered to bless people...

Danish fairy tales The Elf Mound, The Goblin and the Grocer, and The Goblin and the Woman. Goblins are featured in the Norwegian folktale The Christmas Visitors...

one of the five ways to overcome the attacks of incubi. The others are Confession, the Sign of the Cross or recital of the Hail Mary, moving the afflicted...

ballads, where he frequently advises the characters. It is possible that the character of Billy Blind is a folk memory of the god Woden or Odin from Germanic...

entity. The word sprite is derived from the Latin spiritus ("spirit"), via the French esprit. Variations on the term include spright and the Celtic spriggan...

síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually...