SourceBanshee
A warning woman associated with family, mourning, and the dead.
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SourceSourceBucca
A Cornish power that the survey distinguishes from ordinary fairies.
Celtic fairy traditions
SourceBwbach
A household goblin who helps with work but can torment an unwelcome guest.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceCoblynau
Mine fairies whose knocking is said to reveal rich veins of ore.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceCornish Piskies
Fairy people whose presence is negotiated around Cornish homes and moors.
Celtic fairy traditionsSourceEllylldan
The luring elf-fire that draws a wanderer into marshy ground.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceEllyllon
Small woodland elves associated with hollows, fairy food and flowers.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceFenodyree
The Manx helper whose farm work ends when clothes are offered.
Celtic fairy traditions
Gwragedd Annwn
Women of the lake realm, whose encounters with humans can cross the boundary of Annwn.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceGwyllion
Mountain fairies who mislead travellers on lonely roads.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceKorrigans
Breton fairy beings associated with dances, fountains, and ancient stones.
Celtic fairy traditionsSourceLeprechaun
The small fairy craftsman of collected Irish testimony, described near springs making shoes, with roles that vary between accounts.
Celtic fairy traditions
SourceNature Spirits
A nonhuman evolutionary kingdom in Leadbeater’s classification of fairies.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Old Woman of the Mountain
A leading apparition whose cry precedes a traveller’s loss of the road.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourcePlentyn-newid
The changeling of Welsh fairy belief, whose legend could turn illness into a charge of substitution.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourcePooka
Horse-associated fairy beings in Patrick Waters’s testimony, linked with horse-dealing and racecourses and distinguished from the noble gentry.
Celtic fairy traditionsSourcePwca
A mischievous fairy whose name extends beyond the wandering elf-fire.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
SourceSalamanders in Lévi
The fire beings paired with the south and a lion emblem.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental MagicSourceSylphs in Lévi
The aerial beings paired with the east and an eagle emblem.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
Sylphs in Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Invisible aerial attendants whose protection of Belinda turns fashionable life into a miniature supernatural drama.
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock; Aubrey Beardsley illustrated edition, Leonard Smithers, 1896
SourceThe Will-o’-the-wisp in Faust
The unstable guide enlisted on the way to the witches’ gathering.
Goethe’s Faust, Part OneSourceTylwyth Teg
The fair folk of Welsh tradition, known through dances, gifts and dangerous encounters.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceUndines in Lévi
The water beings paired with the west and the cup.
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