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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2970893" data-attributes="member: 9410">FeyThe Greco-Roman "Genius Loci" always seemed like fey, to me, and I'd call that "Hellenistic".  It also agrees well with the Japanese Kami, such as the YamaKami (Mountain Spirit, such as Tolkien's Caradhras).  Note, here, that "The Spirit of a Place", while usually a natural place, could also be a place like a hearth, as well...Kappa also had another weakness...  By formally bowing to them, before a battle, one could usually get them to bow back, thus emptying the water from their head! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Here's another couple of resources:Bastion Press' <a href="http://www.enworld.org/shop/index.php?productsid=230&aid=9410" target="_blank">Complete Minions</a> has stats on the Foxwoman (as a Magical Beast (Shapeshifter), though), as well as the Deep Fey & tiny Nagley (the Mistji and True Mistji (and perhaps some other fey that I'm not recalling) must be in the Faeries book you already have), as well as a "Blessed Ring", which is very similar to the Faerie Ring, but once you lie down inside it for five minutes or more, quickly grows up around you, and seals you in.  Five minutes later, if anything inside it is Evil, it begins to dissolve you all.  Otherwise, it protects you for the next eight hours, opening in the morning to let you out.<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007208731/701-1698583-1209148" target="_blank">The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures</a><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007208731/701-1698583-1209148" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007208731/701-1698583-1209148</a>, 704 pages in paperback, order # AV0532, $24.95.  It covers a lot of other stuff, as well, but also faeries, banshees, mermen, chinese dragons, and something called a lampaluguas.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684869578/002-5198380-5149650?v=glance&n=283155" target="_blank">The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries</a>, 184 pages, hardback, order # AU7122, $26.00.  "Faeries protect forests, animals, and children, appear in the folklore of virtually every country on the planet, and are comprehensively cataloged in this gloriously illustrated volume.  The customs, habitat, and activities are magically revealed in this..."Both of the latter are available from: What on Earth, 5581 Hudson Industrial Parkway PO Box 2599 Hudson, OH 44236-0099, if you'd like to order any of them.  I don't have either book, so can't rate how good or bad they may be.  The first is by John somebody-or-other Matthews, whose name I can't make out.  The second is by Pierre Dubois, if that's any help... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Brian Froud also has quite a few books, all available on Amazon (as are some of the above):<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684847817/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-5198380-5149650?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">Good Faeries, Bad Faeries</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810932741/ref=pd_sim_b_2/002-5198380-5149650?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">Faeries, 25th Anniversary edition</a>, just for two.</blockquote>

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