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== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* "[[Rumpelstiltskin]]".
* [[Joseph Jacobs]]'s "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131017031044/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories/katiecrackernuts.html Katie Crackernuts]", the prince is forced to leave his bed every night to dance at the fairy hall, and is deathly ill because of it.
** The same thing, albeit [[Gender Flip|gender-flipped]], happens in ''[[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]''.
* Two Medieval accounts mention a pair of green children who showed up in the English town of Woolpit in the 12th century. They claimed to be from "Saint Martin's Land", an underground world.
* A lot of classic Scottish fairy tales have these, but just as easily have helpful fairies. They're probably most frequently seen in stories involving Changelings, but are seen as being somewhat interchangeable with trolls.
* The classic ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/shoemaker/index.html The Elves and The Shoemaker]'' features a couple of the Fair Folk being helpful, until the shoemaker and his wife leave them new clothes in gratitude. In a benevolent response, all the elves do is go away forever; it could have been much worse for the shoemaker if they'd decided to take offense. The behavior of the little men is more in keeping with the German house-elf than with any other type of the Fair Folk, and considering that the story was first collected by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, that's the most likely reason for their kindness.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100213094730/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sleepingbeauty/index.html Sleeping Beauty]'' is gifted by six fairy godmothers with beauty, grace, wit, and great skill in music, singing and dancing, then cursed for spite to prick her hand on a spindle on her sixteenth year and die by a seventh fairy. The curse is softened, but cannot be completely removed, by the final fairy.
* In an [[Older Than Print]] example from ancient [[Celtic Mythology]] you have the Aes Sidhe and their subculture the Tuatha De Danaan. The original Fair Folk, these guys were brutal and unrelenting. You did ''not'' want to piss these guys off under any circumstance.
* The Curupira from Brazilian folklore looks like an amalgam between indigenous [[Nature Spirit|nature deities]] and European faeries. Regardless of his origins and his role as a fierce nature guardian, he is generally perceived as a wicked, demonic and sometimes downright sociopathic entity with [[Evil Redhead|beautiful red hair]] who can (and will) do anything to protect the animals and forests of his domains. He is particularly infamous for [[Shapeshifting Seducer|shape-shifting into attractive forms]] to lure abusive hunters and woodcutters deep into the forest. The footprints of his backward feet will ensure anyone who follows him will never find the way out from the woods and there he promptly starts a [[Wild Hunt]], hunting the men down with a giant wild boar and ultimately destroying them.
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