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Fairy circles feature in works by several Elizabethan poets and playwrights.

Fairy circles have appeared in European artwork since at least the 18th century.

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The trail circles the mountain, emerging onto open moorland near Fairy Castle.

They danced and enjoyed themselves, leaving circles ( like Fairy Ring ) in the grass.

In Australia, they are also referred to as Fairy Penguins because of their tiny size.

In the 2010 film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World there are multiple references to the Zelda games and the soundtrack, including use of the " Fairy Fountain " theme in one of the film's dream sequences.

Tolkien wrote in his essay " On Fairy Stories " that the terms " fantasy " and " enchantment " are connected to not only "... the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires ..." but also "... the origin of language and of the mind.

Fairy tales are found in oral and in literary form.

Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today.

However, the same essay excludes tales that are often considered fairy tales, citing as an example The Monkey's Heart, which Andrew Lang included in The Lilac Fairy Book.

Fairy tales with very similar plots, characters, and motifs are found spread across many different cultures.

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, sometimes said to eat humans, especially children ( though this is actually a confusion with ogres, which are distinctly cannibalistic ).

The caves at Fairy Cave Quarry were formed mainly by the erosive action of water flowing beneath the water-table at considerable pressure ( so called ' phreatic ' development ), but as the water table has fallen many of the caves now lie well above it and the system now contains a variety of cave formations ( stalagmites, stalactites and calcite curtains ) which in their extent and preservation are amongst the best in Britain.

The Fairy explains to Pinocchio that it is his lies that are making his nose grow long, then calls in a flock of woodpeckers to chisel down his nose.

A variety of dances are presented with fairies, fish, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves, including " Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ", " Chinese Dance ", " Dance of the Flutes ", " Arabian Dance ", " Russian Dance " and " Waltz of the Flowers ".

Rose-crowned Fruit Doves, Fairy Gerygones and Grey Fantails are commonly found in the canopies to the west.

Fairy tales are a good example of marvelous literature.

* L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales are published in The Delineator magazine from January to September.

Gog and Magog are also names given to two rock formations near Friendship Col, 2000 feet above the Alpine Club of Canada's Fairy Meadows hut in the northern Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.

The largest, the giant petrels with a wingspan of, are almost as large as albatrosses ; the smallest, such as the Fairy Prion have a wingspan of, are slightly bigger than the diving petrels.

Marerijk is the home to the Fairy Tale Forest and the Fairies of the Droomvlucht, Anderrijk has some rides that are inspired by non-Western cultures ( e. g. Fata Morgana and Piraña ), while Reizenrijk has the Carnaval Festival ride, which travels through several different ' countries.

Fairy chess comprises chess problems that differ from classical ( also called orthodox ) chess problems in that they are not direct mates.

The Fairy cryptically responds that all inhabitants of the house, including herself, are dead, and that she is waiting for her coffin to arrive.

Fairy mythologist Thomas Keightley said " notions respecting it are very vague ," and in a brief description gives an account collected by Croker from a boy living near Killarney that " old people used to say that the Pookas were very numerous ... long ago ..., were wicked-minded, black-looking, bad things ... that would come in the form of wild colts, with chains hanging about them.

Of the three random creatures that appear, there are three types which correspond to the relative difficulty of the monsters in battle mode: a small, weak blob denoting easy enemies, a large, strong biped denoting harder enemies, and a Fairy, which will put Link on a single screen with a free Fairy to refill his health.

Some spells are necessary for advancing beyond certain points in the game ; both the Jump and Fairy spells allow Link to reach the top of ledges that are otherwise too high.

The results typically end in disaster, with the Technical Fairy teaching Snafu a valuable lesson about proper military procedure.

Through reading many transition sequences from different pantomimes, however, it becomes clear that this narration and the creation new scene in later pantomimes typically instigated by the Fairy Godmother character from the Fairy Story.

* In the 19th century, until the 1880s, pantomimes typically included a transformation scene in which a Fairy Queen magically transformed the pantomime characters into the characters of the harlequinade, who then performed the harlequinade.

Cream Lemon, which contained many themes found in hentai today, was released later that year by Fairy Dust and contained some in-depth storylines and classic ( late 1970s to early 1980s style ) artwork.

Clifton Springs, Australia, was also named for its local mineral springs, which would be found around Fairy Dell, if it were not closed due to possible landslips.

This is found in folklore: King Herla visited Fairy and returned three centuries later ; although only some of his men crumbled to dust on dismounting, Herla and his men who did not dismount were trapped on horseback, this being one folkloric account of the origin of the Wild Hunt.

He managed to compose a Babson task problem using nightriders ( a Fairy piece which moves like a knight, but can make any number of knight-like moves in the same direction in one go ) instead of knights, but found it hard to devise one using normal pieces — because of their limited range, it is difficult to justify white promoting to a knight because of black promoting to one way over the other side of the board.

Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in the Grimm's Fairy Tales: the protagonist of Hans in Luck ( KHM 83 ) and a horse named Falada in The Goose Girl.

Jimmy inadvertently uses the Auto-Poofer in front of Mr. Crocker who realizes that he has found a way to get into Fairy World.

Gaiman's afterword states that it was based on an old Japanese folk tale, drawn from Y. T. Ozaki's Old Japanese Fairy Tales and retooled to fit in the world of the Sandman, but no such tale is to be found in Ozaki's work.

And no evidence can be found that Clairmont was considered as the translator for Grimm's Fairy Tales.

The Pink Fairy Armadillo ( Chlamyphrous truncates ), is found nowhere else in the world.

The story can be found in The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse.

Clifton Springs is a coastal town located on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after local mineral springs, which were found around Fairy Dell, which was closed due to possible landslides however re-opened in 2007 after extensive work repairing the area.