Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

The term " Faerie " was chosen in reference both to the immortal animistic spirits of European folklore and to the fact that " fairy " had become a pejorative slang term for male homosexuals.

Other inhabitants of Neverland are suggested by Barrie in his original novel, such as a " small old lady with a hooked nose ", " gnomes who are mostly tailors ", and princes " with six elder brothers " reminiscent of European fairy tales.

Category: European fairy tales

Historian Emma Wilby identified recurring motifs in various European folk tales and fairy tales that she believed displayed a belief in familiar spirits.

Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap or simply Red Riding Hood, is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.

In European editions, the code on the cover reads " Think fairy, think again " the slogan for the original Artemis Fowl.

European fairy tales frequently feature damsels in distress.

Category: European fairy tales

* Be-PaPas ' TV series Revolutionary Girl Utena frequently references silhouette paintings, shadow puppets, flying horses and the European fairy tale tradition – all icons of Reiniger's films – but there is no known official confirmation of her influence.

Like the stocks of European fairy folklore, the Aswang's plant duplicates soon appear to sicken and die.

European superstitions routinely warned against entering a fairy ring.

Western European, including English, Scandinavian and Celtic, traditions claimed that fairy rings are the result of elves or fairies dancing.

Category: European fairy tales

* A Drake ( fairy ) is a type of fairy found across Germanic and Northern European Folklore.

These are locally called " fairy rings " and farmers would rather leave them than risk the wrath of the " fairy folk ". Tallaght also seen extensive flooding in the 2011 European floods.

Her books of novels and fairy tales for children, originally intended to educate her own, have been translated into nearly all European languages.

The Erlking as a character has its origins in a common European folkloric archetype, the seductive but deadly fairy or siren ( compare La Belle Dame sans Merci and the nix ).

Themed as a fairy tale village, this land specifically notes the European origin of the source material for many classic Disney films.

Many European fairy tales begin when golden apples are stolen from a king, usually by a bird:

The tale Marlow shares exposes the dark side of European colonization and the brutally cruel treatment of the native Africans when at the hands of the company men who partake in such European imperialistic endeavours.

* Esclaves Modernes ( Modern Slaves ) ( 1922 ) by Jean de Virgans, illustrated by Gaston Smit – unusual tale of power exchange ( BDSM ) with white European women whipped and abused by African natives.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it a " fine, moving, frequently hilarious tale " and observed it " is an American comedy of the sort of vitality that dazzles European film critics and we take for granted.

The tale appears to combine the motifs of two separate fabliaux, the ' second flood ' and ' misdirected kiss ', both of which appear in continental European literature of the period.

The number of translations show a European success for the tale.

It was finally published in 1697 and was a major contribution to European knowledge about the Middle East, influencing writers such as William Beckford ( in his oriental tale Vathek ).

* Arie Dubnov, ' A tale of trees and crooked timbers: Jacob Talmon and Isaiah Berlin on the question of Jewish Nationalism ', History of European Ideas, Vol.

Five Italian championships, two European Cups and two World Club Championships tell the tale of how successful Burgnich was.

His novel The Romantics ( 2000 ), an ironic tale of people longing for fulfillment in cultures other than their own, was published in eleven European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum award for first fiction.

Various versions of the tale were subsequently written in most European languages.

They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as " Cinderella ", " The Frog Prince " ( Der Froschkönig ), " Hansel and Gretel " ( Hänsel und Gretel ), " Rapunzel ", " Rumpelstiltskin " ( Rumpelstilzchen ), and " Snow White " ( Schneewittchen ).

Numerous species including European Bison, Moose and Brown Bear which once inhabited the region may be seen in the Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park alongside more exotic animals like Snow Leopards and Arctic Wolves.

The snowmobile market is now divided up between the four large North American makers ( Bombardier Recreational Products ( BRP ), Arctic Cat, Yamaha, and Polaris ) and some specialized makers like the Quebec-based AD Boivin ( manufacturer of the Snow Hawk ) and the European Alpina Snowmobiles.

* Snow, Dean R., and Kim M. Lamphear, " European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics ," Ethnohistory 35 ( 1988 ): 16-38.

After winning the European title, both D ' Lo Brown and Al Snow were billed from different parts of Europe each week while champion.

Howletts also keep: Mantled Guereza, Gelada Baboon, African Hunting Dog, Dhole, Eastern Bongo, Black Rhino, Sumatran Tiger, Fishing Cat, Barbary Lion, Capybara, Northern Pudu, Giant Anteater, Silvery Gibbon, Bengal Tiger, Clouded Leopard, Pallas Cat, Red-bellied lemur, Black Lemur, black-and-white ruffed lemur, Crowned Lemur, Amur Tiger, Grizzled Leaf Monkey, Red River Hog, Serval, Helmeted Guineafowl, Nilgai, Axis Deer, Blackbuck, Hog Deer, Dusky leaf monkey, Sulawesi Crested Macaque, Indian Desert Cat, Francois Langur, Banded Leaf Monkey, Snow Leopard, Ocelot, North China Leopard, Iberian Wolf, Heck's Macaque, African Wild Cat, Eurasian Lynx, Honey Badger, European Bison, De Brazza's Monkey, Javan Langur, Brazilian Tapir and Greater Kudu.

African Elephant, African Hunting Dog, Agouti, American Bison, Anoa, Asiatic Wild Dog, Axis Deer, Banteng, Barasingha, Barbary Lion, Bengal Tiger, Black-Footed Cat, Black and Gold Howler Monkey, Black and White Colobus Monkey, Black Rhinoceros, Black-capped Capuchin Monkey, Blackbuck, Bongo, Brown Hyena, Bush Dog, Canadian Timber Wolf, Caracal, Cheetah, Clouded Leopard, De Brazza's Monkey, Defassa Waterbuck, Diana Monkey, Drill, European Bison, Fishing Cat, Grants Zebra, Grevy's Zebra, Golden-bellied Mangabey, Hog Deer, Iberian Wolf, Indian Desert Cat, Javan Langur, Malayan Tapir, Margay, Meerkat, Moloch Gibbon, Nilgai, Ocelot, Ostrich, Pallas Cat, Przewalski Horse, Red Lechwe, Red Panda, Red River Hog, Ring-Tailed Coati, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Roan Antelope, Rothschild Giraffe, Rusty-Spotted Cat Samango, Sambar, Scottish Wildcat, Siamang gibbon, Siberian Lynx, Siberian Tiger, Snow Leopard, Wild Asian Water buffalo, Western Lowland Gorilla, Wildebeest,

*** European Snow Vole, Chionomys nivalis

" Lewis Gregory, Jamie Law and Alex Snow are the riders for the team, which will compete in all the major UK and European MX2 events.

This tradition was taken to the New World by European settlers, and continues to this day each Easter on the White House lawn.

White Ecuadorans of European non-colonial non-Spanish origin are a minority within the White Ecuadoran group, and are simply termed white.

One of his most notable achievements was to initiate the process of breaking down the preferential White Australia policy by ending the distinction between Asian and European migrants and by permitting skilled Asians to settle with their families.

Examples include the German “ Blue Angel ”, European “ Daisy ” Eco label, Global Eco-Label “ GEN mark ”, Nordic, “ White Swan ”, Japanese “ Earth friendly mark ”; USA “ Green Seal ”, Canadian “ Environmental Choice ”, Chinese “ Huan ”, Singapore “ Green Label ” and the French “ NF Environment mark ”.

The study of English and European artifacts in general has revealed that projectiles were made with a widely variable number of microliths: in Tværmose there was only one, in Loshult there were two ( one for the tip and the other as a fin ), in White Hassocks, in West Yorkshire, more than 40 have been found together ; the average is between 6 and 18 pieces for each projectile.

In his book, de Bry often altered the poses and features of White ’ s figures to make them appear more European.

But the scientific classification of phenotypic variation was frequently coupled with racist ideas about innate predispositions of different groups, always attributing the most desirable features to the White, European race and arranging the other races along a continuum of progressively undesirable attributes.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

In July 1991, Screamin ' Jay Hawkins released the album Black Music for White People, which features covers of two Waits compositions: " Heartattack & Vine " ( which later that year was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits ' permission, resulting in a lawsuit ) and " Ice Cream Man ".

* The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox ( ISBN 9780393312331.

* Jim Goad's Redneck Manifesto ( 1997 ) explores the history of the pejorative term " White trash ", as well as details the history and class issues related to the impoverished European diaspora in North America.

Paradesi is a word used in several Indian languages, and the literal meaning of the term is " foreigners ", applied to the synagogue because it was historically used by " White Jews ", a mixture of Jews from Cranganore, the Middle East, and European exiles.

Ironically, his assassin, An Jung-geun, strongly believed in a union of the three East Asian nations in order to counter and fight off the " White Peril ", being the European countries engaged in colonialism, restoring peace in the region.

The racial makeup of the city was 81. 84 % White or European American, 14. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 13 % Native American, 0. 94 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 77 % from other races, and 1. 60 % from two or more races.

He defended his title in December against Wells, in January 1914 against Pat O ' Keefe and in London on July 16 he beat Ed " Gunboat " Smith to add the " White Heavyweight Champion of the World " to his European title.

Interior joinery is another common user of both European Ash and White Ash.

The two most economically important species for wood production are White Ash in eastern North America, and European Ash in Europe.

* Ulmus laevis — European White Elm, Fluttering Elm, Spreading Elm, ( USA ) Russian Elm

In Europe, it is the unique example of the European White Elm Ulmus laevis which has received the most attention.

With the increasingly racially-divisive politics that have followed the election of the PLP government, as well as the decades of increasing costs-of-living, the exclusion of unskilled workers from jobs in the white collar international business sector that has come to dominate Bermuda's economy, and the global economic downturn, all of which many Black Bermudians perceive as hitting them hardest, there is little sentiment today amongst people who have long been obliged to think of themselves as Black, in opposition to being White, to identify even partly with their European ancestry.

Despite these concerns, small numbers of Black Bermudians have chosen to describe themselves on census returns as mixed-racial, and the Native American demographic, which had disappeared for centuries, is slowly re-emerging, as more Bermudians-especially on St. David's Island-choose to identify to some degree, if not exclusively, with their Native American ancestry ( although many may feel that, in an increasingly polarised climate, this is a safer option than identifying themselves as in any way White, or European ).

According to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the Germanic root is probably related to the modern English " stark ", in reference to the stiff or rigid posture of a European species, the White Stork.