Fairy

a fay; an imaginary being or spirit, supposed to a ume a human form, dance in meadows, steal infants, and play a variety of pranks; an ene chantre , The fairy superstition belongs to modern Europe. We find nothing like it among the idolatries of the heathen referred to in Scripture. In cla ical mythology there is nothing nearer to it than the nymph of the fountain or grove among the Greeks. The pure fairy tales first became popular in the latter part of the 17th century, and are more extensive and popular in Germany than in any other country at the present time.