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The Aziza are a beneficent fairy race from Africa, specifically Dahomey. The Yumboes are supernatural beings in the mythology of the Wolof people (most likely Lebou) of Senegal, West Africa. Their alternatively used name Bakhna Rakhna literally means good people, an interesting parallel to the Scottish fairies called Good Neighbours.
Monster Musume manga series by Okayado (2012–present): Many of the female characters are mermaids, centaurs, etc. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (2012): Seraphina, half-dragon, half-human; The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey (2014): Melanie, infected with a zombie virus [9] Talon series by Julie Kagawa (2014): Ember, a dragon hiding in ...
The Girl and the Dead Man; The Girl as Soldier (Russian folktale) The Girl with Two Husbands; The Girl Without Hands; Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What; The Goat Girl; The Goat-Faced Girl; Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree; The Golden Bird (Berber folktale) The Golden Fish, The Wonder-working Tree and the Golden Bird; Golden Hair (fairy tale)
Agoa- (American) turtle monster of West Virginian lore centered around the Monongahela River. Name derived from Lenape language word for snake, but creature completely made up by whites. Ammut – female demon, funerary deity and animal hybrid (Egypt) Bakunawa – Serpent-like Dragon in Philippines (Philippines)
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Heloise - A teenaged girl and mad scientist who is also a tomboyish trickster in the cartoon Jimmy Two Shoes. Hokey Wolf - A canine trickster who comes up with different ways to fool his victims. Jareth - King of the Goblins from Jim Henson 's Labyrinth , who changes forms and uses magic to cajole the story's heroine through a series of puzzles.
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities.
The name comes from the Gaelic words for a sweetheart, lover, or concubine and the term for inhabitants of fairy mounds (fairy). [3] While the leannán sídhe is most often depicted as a female fairy, there is at least one reference to a male leannán sídhe troubling a mortal woman. [4]