fairy folk en · NOUN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Small mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.
As us fairy folk sweep from the hill Never caught us and never will Pulling roses and daffodils Mayhem in the high degree.
1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:Two lads were ploughing up a field, in the middle of which was an old thorn-tree, a trysting-place of the Fairy-folk.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 162:
Synonyms
Translations (8)
mi māeroero (mythical beings) · mi patupaiarehe (mythical beings) · mi heketoro (mythical beings) · mi karitehe (mythical beings) · mi kōrakorako (mythical beings) · cy y Tylwyth Teg (mythical beings) · mi tahurangi (mythical beings) · mi tūrehu (mythical beings)