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Here is a short compendium of some of the creatures of faerie:
Bendith Y Mamau-- a Welsh faerie-goblin cross-breed. They have the ill-disposition and ugly appearance of goblins, but the glaymore of faeries. They usually live in clans in underground caverns, and do not enjoy the company of humans
Brownies--helpful faeries who adopt a human family and can assist in many ways if respected. THey will leave if paid for their labor ther than a bowl of milk or cream.
Cluricaun--a leprechaun who raids wine cellars and tortures sheep and dogs by riding them like horses in the moonlight
Domovoi--a Russian cellar spirit similar to a brownie.
Goblins--a sub-race of faeries including boggarts, bogles, bogies, knockers, kobolds, wichtlein, and other faeries who usually live in underground areas. Many goblins are ill-behaved towards humans, causing mischief, breaking things, switching human babies with changlings, causing insects to plague men and animals, and other such activities
Gwyllion--Welsh mountain faeries who sit amongst the rocks along mountain paths and stare evilly at those passing by
Leprachauns--Irish faeries who enjoy making humans look like fools.
Pixies--mischievous faeries from the area of Cornwall
Selkies--fairies in the Orkneys who take a seal-like form
Spriggan--an ugly fairie who enjoys stealing human babies and replacing them with spriggan children.
Sprite--a small fairie of gennerally good nature, but can be mischievous, and oftimes plays sexual tricks on humans.
Water Sprite--a sprite believed to inhabit or haunt water
Other creatures not of faerie:
Dwarves-a race of mid-sized people who live underground and how are master metalsmiths
Elves--elemental spirits of the land, sea and forest
Ghomes--a small race inhabiting deep underground burrows and which mines gems
Incubbus--a demon assuming male form to have sexual intercourse with women in their sleep
Nymphs-- nature spirits that inhabit plants and other natural features. All take the forms of beautiful maidens. Each type of feature has a different type of nymph associated with it. Dryads inhabit forests, each has its own tree, and will live as long as the tree does. Napaeae inhabit similar areas but do not live in a particular tree, but stem from an entire grove. The Oreades live in the mountains. Nerrids live in water and are the most malicious of the Nymphs they have a habit of entrancing and stealing handsome men, who may never be seen again above the waters. All nymphs have voices so beautiful they are often mistaken as the musical sound of the wind. The beauty of a nymph dancing has never been satisfactorily put into words, though a few love-struck poets have tried.
Satyr--a lustful creature who likes to drink and rape nymphs or susceptible humans
Succubus--a demon assuming female form to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep
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