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Elf-bolt (also elf-arrow, elfer-stone and fairy-dart) was a name given to the flint arrow heads found in Britain. It was thought that these were fired by elves at domesticated animals.
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Orlando Bloom is an English actor. He was born in 1977 at Canterbury, Kent. He is perhaps best known to film audiences for his role as the elf 'Legolas' in the 'Lord Of The Rings' trilogy.
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In Teutonic and Scandinavian mythology and folklore, an Alb (Alp or Alf) was a kind of being believed to have existed contemporaneously with man differing from man in some respects. The elf king Alfrigg or Elberich was an
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In Irish mythology, Cluricaune is an evil elf who appears as a wrinkled old man, and has knowledge of hidden treasures.
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In English folklore, a dobby was a house-elf similar to a brownie. Dobbies were thin and shaggy, very kind to servants and children, and did many a small service in the household when people were too busy.
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Eri-King is the English form of the name given in German and Scandinavian poetical mythology to a personified natural power which devises and works mischief, especially to children. Goethe's celebrated poem Der Erikonig (literally the 'elf-king') rendered this malicious spirit universally known.
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In Scottish folklore a fane is an elf or fairy-like creature.
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In Neapolitan mythology, the Monaciello is a type of elf or spirit described as a thick-set little man, dressed in a monk's garment and broad brimmed hat. According to tradition, those who will follow when he beckons will be led to a spot where treasure is concealed. Sometimes, however, it is his pleasure to pull the bed clothes off, and sometimes to sit perched on sleepers.
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St Nicholas is the patron saint of children. St Nicholas was the Roman pontiff Nicholas I also known as Nicholas The Great, who was pontiff from 858 to 867 and who excommunicated Photius of Constantinople, causing the separation of the Eastern and Western Christian Churches. Adopted as the personification of the spirit of Christmas, his Dutch name was corrupted in the USA during the 18th century into the modern 'Santa Claus'.
St Nicholas, as Father Christmas or Santa Claus is first mentioned in the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' by Clement Clarke Moore, published in 1822. In this poem the description of St Nicholas as we know him today is first made, and not as many believe by a 1920's Coca-Cola advertisement! In the poem St Nicholas is described as: 'a little old driver, so lively and quick ... dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot...a bundle of toys he had flung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes - how they twinkled! his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; the stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; he had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.' The poem also describes how he drives a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer, and how he visits houses via the chimney and fills stocking left out by the children full of toys.
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ELF is an abbreviation for Extremely Low Frequency
ELF is an abbreviation for Executable and Linking Format
ELF is an abbreviation for Ejected Lunar Rare
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