A hulder (or huldra) is a forest fairy in Scandinavian folklore who seduces people traveling through her woods. Once in her embrace, a man will discover the hulder has some inhuman feature, such as an animal's hairy legs and tail or a hollow back (like some old tree).
🎨 Iren Horrors

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In Welsh folklore, fairies wear white and gold, making them seem akin to beings of light. However, light doesn't always mean good. Hafgan ("Summer White") battles the hero Pwyll while Gwyn ap Nudd ("White, son of Fog") tempts saints and drives people insane.
🎨 John Duncan

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Luned (or Lunete) is one of the most independent women in Welsh Arthurian legends. She's implied to be a fairy who wanders by herself between various courts, and helps her friend Owain (one of King Arthur's knights) woo the Lady of the Fountain. Luned also lends Owain her ring of invisibility.
🎨 Edmund Leighton

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A flash fiction story written by me:

The leprechaun bent over the fine fairy boot. Repairing them was always ticklish - the sidhe imbued their footwear with such strange spells, and didn't care how much they wore them out with dancing. Hard to repair without shredding the enchantment, but was there a better way to earn a pot of gold?

🎨 Warwick Goble

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W. B. Yeats said one big source of leprechaun wealth is that they are paid by fairies to repair their shoes, and the fairies constantly wear out their shoes with dancing. Furthermore, leprechauns have dug up numerous pots of gold buried by humans long ago during times of war.
🎨 Jean-Baptiste Monge

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In Scottish folklore, selkies are intelligent seals who often become fascinated by human life. They can remove their seal skins to temporarily become beautiful men and women, and will have romances with the local humans. However, eventually all selkies return to the ocean.
🎨 Nataša Ilinčić

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