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    folklore, The Puck (/ˈpʌk/), also known as Goodfellows, are demons or fairies which can be domestic sprites or nature sprites. The etymology of puck was...
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    mythology and English folklore, a Puck is a mischievous sprite, imagined as an evil demon by Christians. It is also designated Uranus XV. Puck is the largest...
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  • Puck (folklore), a trickster character of folk tales Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck, from...
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    Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was...
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    Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Based on the Puck of English mythology and the púca...
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    The Puck Building is a mixed-use building at 295–309 Lafayette Street in the SoHo and Nolita neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, United States...
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  • Flibbertigibbet (category Puck (folklore))
    measure and sweet ucadence." It has been used by extension as a synonym for Puck. It is also used as a nickname for a character in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth...
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  • The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (category Puck (folklore))
    The Kindly Ones (1996) is the ninth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman. Written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Marc Hempel, Richard...
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  • Kobalos (category Puck (folklore))
    Scottish bogle, French goblin, Medieval gobelinus, German kobold, and English Puck. Likewise, the names of many European spirits may derive from the word kobalos...
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  • Grim the Collier of Croydon (category Puck (folklore))
    play's title character is an established figure of the popular culture and folklore of the time who appeared in songs and stories – a body of lore the play...
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    Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history...
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    Lutin (category Puck (folklore))
    pronunciation: [lytɛ̃]) is a type of hobgoblin (an amusing goblin) in French folklore and fairy tales. Female lutins are called lutines (French pronunciation:...
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  • Hobgoblin (section Folklore)
    been considered mischievous.(p320) Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his A Midsummer Night's Dream as a hobgoblin. The term "hobgoblin" comes...
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    Nis Puk (category Puck (folklore))
    is also known as variant to nisse in some local folklore (var. nis puge). Further there are Puk, Puck, Pug, Pûks or Hauspuk (“house Puk”). Plural forms...
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  • Lubber fiend (category Puck (folklore))
    lubberkin, lurdane or Lob Lie-By-The-Fire is a legendary creature of English folklore that is similar to the "brownie" (or "Urisk") of Scotland and northern...
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    Hinzelmann (category Puck (folklore))
    He was described as a household spirit of ambivalent nature, similar to Puck (Robin Goodfellow). The similar-sounding Heinzelmann (Heinzelmännchen) of...
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  • The Sandman: Dream Country (category Puck (folklore))
    appear in the play: Titania, Auberon, Peaseblossom, and Robin Goodfellow (Puck). Puck greatly enjoys the play and repeats the theme of the story that while...
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  • The Iron Fey (category Puck (folklore))
    (Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn): Prince of the Winter Court and consort of Meghan) - Puck (Robin Goodfellow) - Grimalkin - Ethan Chase: Meghan's younger brother, who...
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  • This is a list of dragons in mythology and folklore. This is a list of European dragons. Azazel from the Abrahamic religions, is described as a dragon...
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    Friar Rush (category Puck (folklore))
    commentators. In fact, Kittredge argues, Harsnett was not speaking of any folkloric supernatural "friar" lurking in the kitchen, but polemically blaming actual...
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  • Getting lost (category Puck (folklore))
    fairy-led or pouk-ledden as it is called—can be a fairy, Robin Goodfellow, Puck, Hob, a pixy or one of the gwyllion. In the mythology of Ireland, there are...
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    Puck's Glen is a river-formed ravine on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, with a popular scenic walking trail beside the Eas Mòr...
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    Fremlin's Brewery (category Puck (folklore))
    English folklore (malicious creatures said to be responsible for sabotaging aircraft) to a combination of the name of Grimm's Fairy Tales and the folklore surrounding...
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  • Celtic Tales (Corto Maltese) (category Puck (folklore))
    they need a mortal to help them. Corto, who sleeps nearby, is awakened by Puck, in the form of a raven, and instructed to follow him. The sailor discovers...
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  • Faeries (1981 film) (category Puck (folklore))
    Squalor Web Castle and defeat the evil Shadow. Oisin and his faerie helper Puck travel to the castle, encountering hags, goblins, merrows and other faerie...
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    humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic...
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    gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit or hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep...
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    Púca (category Irish folklore)
    English for goblin) pwca, pookah, phouka, puck is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and...
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    Diplolepis rosae (category Puck (folklore))
    Being so prominent and interesting in appearance, this gall has more folklore attached to it than most. The term 'Bedeguar, Bedegar or Bedequar' comes...
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    Northern England, and on the Anglo-Scottish border, according to traditional folklore of those regions. They could live inside the house or outdoors. They are...
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