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- Magnus The Wood Sprite 2042086Russian Folk-Tales — The Wood SpriteLeonard Arthur MagnusAlexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev THE WOOD SPRITE One day the daughter...629 bytes (600 words) - 11:48, 30 December 2020
- A Book of Folklore by Sabine Baring-Gould IV. THE ANCIENT DIVINITIES 2684218A Book of Folklore — IV. THE ANCIENT DIVINITIESSabine Baring-Gould CHAPTER...308 bytes (5,197 words) - 18:27, 6 December 2019
- boggarts or the more widely found Jack-o’-Lantern (Will o’ the Wisp), are sprites who do no more harm than leading the wanderer astray. The banshee is perhaps...360 bytes (4,249 words) - 11:10, 9 January 2022
- But here was a lady who kindly contributed to my studies and offered me folklore and survivals in cultivated Kensington. My mind had strayed from the potato...20 KB (3,506 words) - 12:19, 17 October 2022
- haunted by a local genius or spirit, probably a river sprite, and possibly the name of this sprite may be connected with Neptune, who was god of the fresh...30 KB (5,368 words) - 13:24, 6 May 2011
- Wales; and they have various points of resemblance to the vodyany or water-sprite and the rusalka or stream-fairy of Russian mythology. The typical mermaid...289 bytes (1,439 words) - 20:53, 28 May 2023
- Folk-lore (extracted from The Athenaeum 1876-08-29) (category Folklore)application. In the old High German monuments, mention is made of a small elfish sprite, Scrat, or Scrato,—by Latin writers translated Pilosus; as Waltschrate,...334 bytes (1,177 words) - 01:44, 16 September 2020
- fancies, like the Celt. Where the river-gods [vodyanóy], or. the wood-sprites [lěši], have human form, it is to a certain extent because they have been...366 bytes (1,714 words) - 10:39, 1 May 2016
- The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 4/Folk-Tales of India (pp. 45-63) (category Indian folklore)when Brahmadatta reigned at Benares, the Bodhisat was re-born as a tree-sprite. At that time, close to Benares, there had sprung up a village of carpenters...409 bytes (6,150 words) - 02:51, 20 October 2021
- the Thames on fire. [Rybnikov, I, 336]. The Wood-Sprite. Léshi is a peculiar feature in Russian folklore. He is somewhat similar to Pan, but is also represented...349 bytes (4,246 words) - 14:45, 1 May 2016
- (especially the latest) of Faery, with knowledge derived from study of living folklore, where the latter has retained the fairy belief with any distinctness,...525 bytes (8,683 words) - 14:42, 10 July 2021
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/Midsummer-eve in Bohemia (category Czech folklore)Others cast garlands into the water, which, if drawn down by the water-sprite, betoken the speedy death of the owner. A yellow-blossoming fern is sought...550 bytes (2,338 words) - 19:34, 12 December 2020
- Popular Science Monthly/Volume 19/May 1881/The Will-O'-The-Wisp and its Folk-Lore (category Folklore articles in Popular Science Monthly)' that is, they are occasionally waylaid in the night by a mischievous sprite whom they call Poake, who leads them into ditches, bogs, pools, and other...796 bytes (5,011 words) - 06:25, 2 October 2018
- beautiful. F172. No time, no birth, no death in otherworld. F251.5. Fairies as sprites who have been given immortality. F259.1. Mortality (immortality) of fairies...512 bytes (11,137 words) - 18:34, 20 August 2012
- undefined and unknown regions of the supernatural, in which that errant sprite, the imagination, is free to expatiate and quick to discover wonders more...847 bytes (9,641 words) - 08:46, 1 October 2018
- Russian Folk-Tales (category Folklore)The Wood Sprite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...715 bytes (98 words) - 09:07, 17 August 2021
- in Andro's mother's house. When grown-up, Andro again met "that devilish sprite, the Queen of Elphin, on whom thou begat divers bairns, whom thou has seen...493 bytes (10,367 words) - 11:39, 10 July 2021
- Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders (category Folklore)Pullen—The Hand of Glory—The Lost Watch—Kate Neirns 180 CHAPTER VII. Local Sprites. The Bogle—Brownie—Dobie—Brown Man of the Muirs—Killmoulis—Redcap—Powries...558 bytes (2,163 words) - 17:17, 30 August 2023
- Dream," where a Fairy says to him— <poem> "You are that shrewd and knavish sprite Called Robin Goodfellow. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the...301 bytes (6,897 words) - 01:52, 3 March 2014
- Russian Folk-Tales/The Realms of Copper, Silver and Gold (category Russian folklore)← The Wood Sprite...648 bytes (1,552 words) - 11:48, 30 December 2020