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pixie pixie
pixie in English folklore, spirit or fairy. The pixie is commonly represented as a mischievous imp who delights in flustering young maidens and leading travelers astray.... Read more
folklore folklore
folklore the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition. It includes folk dances , folk songs , folk medicine (the use of magical charms and herbs), and folktales (myths, rhymes, and proverbs). The study of folklore emerged significantly in the 19th... Read more
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Gwion Bach In ancient Welsh romance and myth, son of Gwreang. Assigned to stir the magic brew in the cauldron of science and inspiration intended for Ceridwin's son, Gwion tasted the liquid and became gifted with supernatural sight. He fled, pursued by Ceridwin, and the pair were changed... Read more
Alan Lomax Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax No individual has done as much to catalog and preserve traditional American music as American folklorist Alan Lomax (1915–2002). A folklorist, pub- lisher, author, and part-time musician, Lomax was a driving force in the folk and blues boom of the 1950s and 1960s, and helped... Read more
Bluebeard Bluebeard
Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her... Read more
Maid Marian Maid Marian
Maid Marian in English folklore, the lover of Robin Hood; she is also traditionally a female character in the morris dance and May game, and (in modern use) a named character in the Horn dance performed annually at Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. Her appearance in later forms of the story of... Read more
Drunkenness Drunkenness
199. Drunkenness (See also Alcoholism.) Acrasia self-indulgent in the pleasures of the senses. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene ] Admiral of the red a wine-bibber. [Br. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 11] Bacchus, priest of a toper, perhaps originally because of ceremonial duties. [Western Folklore:... Read more
puck puck
puck , in Germanic folklore, generic name for various malevolent spirits. The medieval English pouke was often identified with the devil. However, the Puck of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a mischievous but friendly fairy.... Read more
troll troll
troll , in Scandinavian folklore, dwarfish or gigantic creature of caves and hills. Variously friendly or malicious, trolls toiled as smiths. The mountain king in Ibsen's Peer Gynt is a troll.... Read more
Innocence Innocence
462. Naïveté (See also Inexperience, Innocence.) Agnes young girl, affects to be simple and ingenuous. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes ] babes in the woods applied to easily deceived or naive persons. [Folklore: Jobes, 169] beardlessness traditional representation of... Read more

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