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** Even the supposed good fairies have elements of this. They certainly mean to help, but the way they go about things is a bit reckless. While brainstorming on how to keep Aurora from pricking her finger, the fairies thought it was absolutely brilliant to turn her into a flower. The only reason they didn't was because they realize Maleficent could cause a frost and kill her that way. Then there's the part where they put the entire kingdom under a sleep spell so that the king doesn't find out about Aurora.
*** Also note the spells they throw after Maleficient's raven turned it into [[Taken for Granite]]. Given Maleficients reaction when seeing this, it's not reversible...
** While the previous games had gone with the sorceress description, [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]] rightfully lists her as a fairy.
* While we're on the topic of [[Disney Animated Canon]], in ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' the prince is turned into the Beast and his household servants into animated objects because he wouldn't let a disguised fairy stay the night and laughed at her payment of a rose.
** Note that said fairy was disguised as a poor old woman in the dead of winter. The prince's lack of hospitality and compassion would have been a death sentence if she'd been what she appeared to be. Her punishment was designed to correct his character flaws, never mind that his staff didn't deserve it, or that the prince was so young.
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** There are also several extinct tribes who display other aspects of the Fair Folk.
*** The Ayleids, also known as the Heartland High Elves, are notorious among humans for their cruel reign over the enslaved humans of Cyrodiil. They worshipped Daedra, practiced necromancy, and crafted artifacts whose nature cannot be easily recreated.
*** The Falmer, or "Snow Elves", have left little of their culture behind. However, their place in Nordic legend is written in a way similar to one speak of the Fair Folk. By the time of [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] however they've devolved into blind monsters that inhabit particularly deep crypts and Dwemer ruins.
*** The Dwemer, or "Deep Elves", wiped themselves out by trying to make themselves into gods via [[Magitek]] and are remembered by the Dunmer in fables that speak of them like the Fair Folk.
*** The Orsimer, or "Pariah Elves", were a sect of elves who remained dedicated to their god even after he was corrupted after being devoured by another deity and...excreted. The result was a corruption of their form into the Orcs, though they kept their pointy ears.
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