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An unnamed fairy queen appears in Thomas the Rhymer (Child 37), where she takes the titular character as her lover and leaves him with prophetic abilities. Although the romances and ballads associated with Thomas the Rhymer have parallels to Tam Lin, including the tithe to Hell, this fairy queen is a more benevolent figure.
Titania (/ t ɪ ˈ t ɑː n i ə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream.. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon.
Queen Mab, illustration by Arthur Rackham (1906). Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which the character Mercutio famously describes her as "the fairies' midwife", a miniature creature who rides her chariot (which is driven by a team of atom-sized creatures) over the bodies of sleeping humans during the nighttime, thus helping them "give birth ...
Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), the Queen of the Fairies in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Titania (DC Comics), a DC Comics character; Titania (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain; Titania (Grapplers) or Lascivious, a Marvel Comics supervillain; Titania (Fire Emblem), a paladin in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Child took the threat to take out Tam Lin's eyes as a common folklore precaution against mortals who could see fairies, in the tales of fairy ointment. Joseph Jacobs interpreted it as rather a reversal of the usual practice; the Queen of Faeries would have kept him from seeing the human woman who rescued him. [1]
“Fairy Queen” will maintain the essence of “Paris 70” but expand its universe, incorporating new characters, Morena has announced. In it, an ambitious executive reconnects with his roots ...
Queen of Elphame [1] or "Elf-hame" (-hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography [2] [3]), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials. In ballads and contemporary texts, she is referred to as Queen of Elphane, Elphen, or the Fairies.
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