equivalent of fairies. Pillywiggins are tiny goblins and fairies, guardians of the flora, mentioned in English and Irish folklore. An alux is a type of sprite...

In French fairy tales told by the précieuses, fairies are divided into good and evil, but the effect is literary. Many of the literary fairies seem preoccupied...

regard to elves and fairies in European folklore, and in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits. The belief in diminutive beings such as sprites...

folklore, fairy-locks (or elflocks) are the result of fairies tangling and knotting the hairs of sleeping children and the manes of beasts as the fairies play...

In folklore and literature, the Fairy Queen or Queen of the Fairies is a female ruler of the fairies, sometimes but not always paired with a king. Depending...

Fairies (British band), a 1960s British R&B band Fairies (Japanese group), a Japanese girl group Fairies (album), 2014 Faeries (1999 film), a 1999 animated...

Paracelsian concept, elementals are conceived more as supernatural humanoid beings which are much like human beings except for lacking souls. This is quite the...

full list of the days of the week (because of the sacredness of the full week). Other authors use the term only to refer to siren-like female fairies who...

home of a 17th century Puritan family. In a 1684 hymn Bunyan couples the hobgoblin with "a foul fiend", as two monstrous beings who try (and fail) to "daunt...

of a band of spriggans by turning her clothing inside-out (turning clothing supposedly being as effective as holy water or iron in repelling fairies)...