Queen of Elphame or "Elf-hame" (-hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern...

by the "Quene of Elphen." Scholar Robert Pitcairn reconstructed the word as "Elphame" or "Elf-hame." The concept of a Dianic queen of spirits influenced...

legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the boogeyman (or bugaboo or babau or cucuy), and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically...

like "imps of serpents", "imp of hell", "imp of the devil", and so on; and by the 17th century, it came to mean a small demon, a familiar of a witch. The...

beings such as sprites, elves, fairies, etc. has been common in many parts of the world, and might to some extent still be found within neo-spiritual and...

"The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures...

to as the Queen of Elfland. Poet and novelist Robert Graves published his alteration of the ballad, replacing her name with "Queen of Elphame": I'm not...

Fairies, particularly those of Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh folklore, have been classified in a variety of ways. Classifications – which most often...

and further from incubāre ("to lie upon, to hatch"). One of the earliest evident mentions of a demon sharing qualities with an incubus comes from Mesopotamia...

population of the European wildcat, which is now absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). The cat-sìth is all black with the exception of a white spot...

völva divine figure Huld and the German Holda. The word hulder is only used of a female; a "male hulder" is called a huldrekall and also appears in Norwegian...

Seelie is a term for fairies in Scottish folklore, appearing in the form of seely wights or The Seelie Court. The Northern and Middle English word seely...

alchemical works from around the time of the European Renaissance, and particularly elaborated in the 16th century works of Paracelsus. According to Paracelsus...

The redcap (or powrie) is a type of malevolent, murderous goblin found in folklore of the Anglo-Scottish border region. The redcap is said to inhabit ruined...

A water spirit is a kind of supernatural being found in the folklore of many cultures: Some water spirits in traditional African religion include: Mami...

The Headless Horseman is an archetype of mythical figure that has appeared in folklore around Europe since the Middle Ages. The figures are traditionally...

sources describing Nicneven as a fairy queen or goddess. Elf Fairy Queen of Elphame Wild Hunt Simpson, Jacqueline (1995). "'The Weird Sisters Wandering': Burlesque...

queen of Spenser. pt. 1. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-21958-7. Warton, Thomas (2001). Spenser's Faerie Queene: Observations on the Fairy queen of...

The Dullahan (Irish: Dubhlachan; dúlachán, /ˈduːləˌhɑːn/) is a type of legendary creature in Irish folklore. He is depicted as a headless rider on a black...

or if cattle were stolen. In one story, an old woman got the better of a band of spriggans by turning her clothing inside-out (turning clothing supposedly...

mythological creature present in the Tupi–Guarani myths in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. The name comes from the Tupi language kuru'pir, meaning "covered in...

but which since the spread of Christianity has often been considered mischievous.(p320) Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his A Midsummer Night's...

in architecture and art, of a face made of, or completely surrounded by, foliage, which normally spreads out from the centre of the face. Apart from a purely...

The origins of narratives about the creature are unclear, but the practical purposes of keeping children away from dangerous stretches of water and warning...

to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. It is distinct from both of these creatures in that it wears a magic hat called a...

goblin is a small, grotesque, monstrous creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures. First attested in stories from the Middle Ages...

is King of the Fairies and spouse of Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Oberon is a variant spelling of Auberon, earlier Alberon, the origin of which is...

elements. British folklorist Katharine Briggs called it "the nastiest" of all the demons of Scotland's Northern Isles. The nuckelavee's breath was thought to...

pooka, phouka, puck is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel Islands folklore. Considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune, they could...

does not die," are a few of the earliest evidences of the spiritual connection of bisimbi to the land of the living and the land of the dead. The word basimbi...