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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9579116" data-attributes="member: 58172">Many of the Greek place spirits (Greek daimon, Latin genius locii) are Fey, not because of Greek but because of British traditions since the medieval period. When they read the Pan-Euro literature, including Greek mythology, the British often explained the foreign concepts using local British analogies, including "fairie" and "aelf". These Fey terms were written as notes in the margins of the pages of the medieval books.Also, the term "fairie" literally means "magic", so any kind of magical creature was described as being "fairie". In this way, beings like nymphs, satyr, and centaurs are all solidly Fey.Of course, goblins are strictly "fairie", being unseelie sprites from the realm of fairie.</blockquote>