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** Also that Faerie is simply a humanoid race—fairy is the word confused humans have for them when they come into our world and grow wings as a result of the transportation (we do the same when we transport there).

** Along with "faerie," there are uses of both "Hael/Hell" and "Haven/Heaven" at various points in the series. Almost always, the Phantasy Spelling is used by faeries and the normal spelling is used by human characters, although Mr. Fogarty switches over to the faerie spellings after moving to the Faerie Realm.

** One of the short stories in the connected story collection ''The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories'' has its semi-literate narrator refer to fairies as [[The Bible|"Pharisees"]]. Obviously, she has a confusion in terminology, but since the fairies of the stories are often somewhat different than Strange and Norrell fairies, a different term might be justified.

** "Pharisees" as a term for fairies really has been used in various rural locations across England, mostly Sussex but also Somerset where the above story is set.

* Brian Lumley's ''[[Necroscope]]'' series features the classic Romanian mythological variant "Wamphyri".

* ''[[American Gods]]'' includes a very brief walk-on by a "wampyr". Mostly, this is to evoke the Slavic folk roots of the creature, and not simply to say that [[Neil Gaiman]]'s [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires Are Different.]] Which hardly needs saying. Neil Gaiman's everything is different, at least from the pop culture version.

** This would be because originally they were all called vampires, then the race was split into the mindless vampires and the intelligent and stronger vampyres, then in mid-2011 they were changed again so the race as a whole was called vampyre, with the intelligent ones referred to as vyres. The novels were released before the changes to spelling and terminology.

* The eponymous being of Meredith Ann Pierce's [[The Darkangel Trilogy]] is variously called darkangel, icarus or vampyre. As it turns out, a darkangel is a {{spoiler|human boy adopted by [[Big Bad|the witch]], raised as her son ''and'' lover. Eventually she drains his blood, gives him his wings, and gilds his heart with lead before sending him out to collect some souls for Mommy. When he succeeds, he flies home, Mommy drinks the souls like shots, as well as his own soul, which will make him a complete darkangel.}}

** Or even, [[Fan Nickname|on rare occasions]], "[[Dwarf Fortress|dorfs]]."

* [[China Mieville]]'s [[Perdido Street Station]] [[The Scar|and]] [[Iron Council|sequels]] employ this trope heavily—vampirs, chymistry, elyctric elementals...

** Daemon is the Latin spelling, which is understandable because the Imperial High Gothic language is [[Canis Latinicus]]. Of course, [[Warhammer Fantasy]] likewise.

** Daemon comes from the Greek "Daimon", meaning minor immortal or spirit. It's the eventual root of the Christian concept of "Demon".

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