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Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.

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Could you offer what you know?

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Off the absolute top of my head there’s the redcap. Depending on the material it can be depicted as a gnome, goblin, or kobold with a jaunty looking red hat (generally long and pointy like a gnome hat or like Link’s hat in Legend of Zelda).

It keeps the hat red by dying and regularly re-dying it with its victims’ blood.

There’s also a number of depictions of pixies as essentially flying piranha.

But this sort of mythology isn’t some deep secret, it’s everywhere outside of the kid friendly/disney filtered stuff. I’m sure a simple search will net you tons of content.

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Shoot, I was just referencing the modern interpretations of fae, but that’s absolutely fascinating! As recompense for unintentionally misleading you, here are a few of my favorite fairy artworks by Arthur Rackham

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You can’t trick me into giving you all my knowledge, faerie!!

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I wanted to upvote this, but the score was too nice to change it…

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One of the best jokes I’ve seen is everyone with adhd accidentally answered yes to a fae asking “could I have your attention”

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Or the scissor man.

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Or basically any European mythology.

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Just the sea monsters …

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