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The prince thanking the Water sprite, from The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884) by Andrew Lang (illustration by Richard Doyle). The belief in diminutive 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 religious movements such as "neo-druidism" and Ásatrú.
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term sprite referred to fixed-sized objects composited together, by hardware, with a background. [ 1 ]
Sprite commonly refers to: Sprite (computer graphics), a smaller bitmap composited onto another by hardware or software; Sprite (drink), a lemon-lime beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company; Sprite (folklore), a type of legendary creature including elves, fairies, and pixies; Sprite may also refer to:
Susuwatari (Japanese: ススワタリ, 煤渡り; "wandering soot"), also called Makkuro kurosuke (まっくろくろすけ; "makkuro" meaning "pitch black", "kuro" meaning "black" and "-suke" being a common ending for male names), is the name of a fictitious sprite that was devised by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, known from the famous anime-productions My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and ...
Whether you can't seem to stay away from the taste of sprite, or you resort to a can of coke for a midday pick-me-up -- you know what it's like to enjoy the sweet taste of soda throughout the day ...
Yakshi under a stylized ashoka tree.Railing figure at Bharhut Stupa, 2nd century BC, India.. A tree deity or tree spirit is a nature deity related to a tree.Such deities are present in many cultures.
A FBI document obtained by Wikileaks details the symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify sexual preferences. According to the document members of pedophilic organizations use of ...
Sprite is an incorrigible trickster and practical joker, and has been for millennia. Claiming to have been the inspiration for William Shakespeare to write the character of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and J. M. Barrie to write Peter Pan, Sprite revels in what he sees as "playful" behavior, he is unmindful of the often deadly consequences of his "pranks", especially to fragile "mortal ...