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  • Thumbnail for Fairy circle (arid grass formation)
    Fairy circles are circular patches of land barren of plants, varying between 2 and 12 metres (7 and 39 ft) in diameter, often encircled by a ring of stimulated...
    26 KB (2,811 words) - 10:55, 13 July 2024
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    A fairy ring, also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring or pixie ring, is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms. They are found mainly...
    51 KB (5,574 words) - 01:11, 10 April 2024
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    Heuweltjie (category Geography of South Africa)
    rats (Parotomys brantsii); and sheep graze and leave dung on them. Fairy circle (Africa) Hodotermitidae Mima mounds Patterns in nature "Betekenis 'hillock'"...
    8 KB (883 words) - 18:38, 15 July 2024
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    A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in...
    63 KB (8,274 words) - 12:20, 8 April 2024
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    either physically or functionally; for example, the so-called fairy circles of Southern Africa tend to be less mound-like and occur in different climatic...
    27 KB (3,314 words) - 20:56, 18 May 2024
  • these fairy paths. A fairy ring is also a path used by fairies, but in a circle, for dancing, as described by poet W. B. Yeats, "...the fairies dance...
    13 KB (1,927 words) - 09:10, 31 March 2024
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    Polish: wiła; Serbo-Croatian: vila; Slovak: víla; Slovene: vila) is a Slavic fairy similar to a nymph. The vila is mostly known among South Slavs; however...
    12 KB (1,573 words) - 03:43, 7 February 2024
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    Fairy forts (also known as lios or raths from the Irish, referring to an earthen mound) are the remains of stone circles, ringforts, hillforts, or other...
    7 KB (708 words) - 19:02, 1 July 2024
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    In fairy tales, a fairy godmother (French: fée marraine) is a fairy with magical powers who acts as a mentor or parent to someone, in the role that an...
    11 KB (1,538 words) - 12:29, 23 July 2024
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    considers that these rings are created by dancing wolves or fairies. Arecibo crop circle Benjamin Creme Geoglyph Kosmopoisk Land art List of hoaxes Nazca...
    57 KB (6,442 words) - 21:22, 9 July 2024
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    Tinker Bell (redirect from Fairy dust)
    Mickey Mouse. Barrie described Tinker Bell as a fairy who mended pots and kettles, an actual tinker of the fairy folk. Her speech consists of the sounds of...
    16 KB (2,138 words) - 13:43, 16 July 2024
  • Simmy (category South African artists)
    Fairy (2018), spawned with hit singles "Ngiyesaba", "Ubala", "Umahlalela". The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa...
    23 KB (1,497 words) - 05:23, 11 July 2024
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    Microhodotermes viator (category Insects of South Africa)
    viewed from above resemble large fairy circles. Heuweltjies inhabited by M. viator cover over 20% of South Africa's west coast, including the Fynbos and...
    28 KB (2,821 words) - 16:50, 19 July 2024
  • Upernavik, way north of the Arctic Circle, on the west coast of Greenland." After ten years, working his way across Africa and Europe, he finally arrives...
    4 KB (326 words) - 21:50, 11 March 2024
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    countries. They were thought to be responsible for the creation of fairy circles, until that theory was disproven in 2013. Psammotermes is essentially...
    2 KB (213 words) - 12:08, 16 October 2023
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    Rapunzel (category Grimms' Fairy Tales)
    (/rəˈpʌnzəl/ rə-PUN-zəl, German: [ʁaˈpʊnt͡sl̩] ; French: Persinette) is a German fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as...
    36 KB (4,689 words) - 14:12, 11 July 2024
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    Daryl McCormack (category Irish people of African-American descent)
    surreal. Milton, Stephen (29 November 2020). "Pixie offers Daryl McCormack a fairy tale beginning". The Sunday Times. Harrington, Patrice (6 June 2021). ""We...
    18 KB (1,164 words) - 19:53, 17 July 2024
  • Cinderella (1997 film) (category African-American musical films)
    by Robert Iscove, and written by Robert L. Freedman. Based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, the film is the second remake...
    133 KB (14,184 words) - 16:17, 14 July 2024
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    supernatural being in Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy. They are usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat...
    28 KB (3,123 words) - 18:32, 21 June 2024
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    having its own mythology. Myths of the Fon and Ewe people feature Aziza, fairy like creatures who live in the forest. According to legend, they provide...
    25 KB (3,325 words) - 17:56, 19 July 2024
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