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ELF
A supernatural being or spirit associated with illness, mischief, and harmful or dangerous magical influence; in later Norse sources, sometimes divided into benevolent ''elf|light elves'' (inhabiting ''Álfheimr'') and malevolent ''elf|dark elves''.
(RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender) if theyr children at any time vvere frowarde and vvanton, they would ſay to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich vvords novve from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vſage, and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we ſay Elfes & Goblins.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(quote-book) Iohn Danter for William Iones,(nb...)|year=1594|passage=Their Robbin-good-fellowes, Elfes, Fairies, Hobgoblins of our latter age, which idolatrous former daies and the fantasticall world of Greece ycleaped ''Fawnes'', ''Satyres'', ''Dryades & Hamadryades'', did most of their merry prankes in the Night.
(RQ:Shakespeare Midsummer)
(quote-book)|year=1649|page=16|passage=(..) I had rather have a Child which my Wife ſhould bring me, though by another man, then to have a Changeling brought me by a company of Fairies, Elfs and Goblins: (..)
(quote-book) Henry Seile,(nb...)|year=1657|page=131|passage=The quarrel ſpreading into parties, called the ''Guelfs'' and the ''Gibellines'', became at laſt the wonder and amazement of all good people: inſomuch as ſome are of opinion, that the fiction of the ''Elfs'' and ''Goblins'', wherewith we uſe to fright young children, was derived from hence.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin,(nb...)|year=1678|page=26|passage=The opinion of Fairies and Elfs is very old, and yet ſticketh very religiously in the minds of ſome. But to root that rank opinion of Elfs out of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no ſuch things, nor yet the ſhadows of the things, but only by a ſort of bald Friers and knaviſh ſhavelings ſo faigned; (..)
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
(quote-book)the Devaſtations under the ''Goths'', ''Guelphs'', and ''Gibelines'' whence ſome would derive the Terms of ''Elfs'' (or ''Elves'') or ''Fairies'', and ''Goblins'' (or ''Hobgoblins'') or ''Spectres'', &c. (..)
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(quote-book) Richard and John Edward Taylor,(nb...), for,(nb...) the Author|year=1850|page=14|passage=These Picts are the Clan ''Alpin'', the Alps, or Elfs or Elves,—(...)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) For the Folklore Society|Folk-Lore Society by W. Satchell, Peyton and Co.,(nb...)|year=1879|page=364|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924006726552/page/n387/mode/1up|passage=Eve, Danish legend of her concealing her unwashed children, from whom come elfs, trolls, &c.
(quote-book)|year=1903|page=619|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/hobsonjobsonglos00yulerich/page/619/mode/1up|column=2|passage=NAT,(nb..); a term applied to all spiritual beings, angels, elfs, demons, or what not, including the gods of the Hindus.
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(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Faber and Faber|chapter=|location=London|page=6|passage=Cain got no good from committing that murderbecause the Almighty made him anathemaand out of the curse of his exile there sprangogres and elves and evil phantoms.
A small, magical creature similar to a fairy, often mischievous, playful, or occasionally helpful.
(RQ:Dryden Fables)
(quote-book) For J. Sibbald,(nb...), by C. Stewart & Co.(nb...)|year=1802|passage=Farefolkis, ''fairies'', ''elfs'', or ''elves''; (..)
(RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter)
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(quote-journal)|journal=Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama|location=London|publisher=(...) John C. Francis,(nb...)|issue=2867|date=7 October 1882|page=471|column=1|passage=We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and ''imaginators'' of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank.
(quote-journal). By (smallcaps).(nb...)|journal=Science Monthly|Popular Science|month=May|year=1889|page=128|column=1|passage=Much of fairy lore clusters around the so-called fairy rings, that is, the green circles in old pastures within which the elfs were supposed to dance at night by the light of the moon.
A member of a race of tall, slender, graceful beings with pointed ears, typically immortal or very long-lived and possessing wisdom and magical abilities.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=G.P. Puttnam's Sons|location=New York|page=59|chapter=VII|volume=|passage=He was not speaking troll-talk now, but the language of Elfland, that grander tongue that he had had to speak when he was before the King: for he knew the language of Elfland although it was never used in the homes of the trolls, who preferred troll-talk. This language was spoken in those days also by men, for there were fewer languages then, and the elves and the people of Erl both used the same.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|url=|chapter=3: A Short Rest|page=56|year_published=1983|publisher=Unwin Paperbacks|text=So they laughed and sang in the trees; and pretty fair nonsense I daresay you think it. Not that they would care they would only laugh all the more if you told them so. They were elves of course. Soon Bilbo caught glimpses of them as the darkness deepened. He loved elves, though he seldom met them; but he was a little frightened of them too.
(senseid) A very diminutive person; a dwarf.(R:Webster 191)
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(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(cln) eleven
(l)
the number eleven, or a representation thereof
(l), brownie (gloss)
(l) (gloss)
eleven (11)
(l), fairy
(quote-book)|publisher=Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse|line=5258|passage=Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell|translation=She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.
(quote-book)|publisher=Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse|line=616|passage=he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn|translation=He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.
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