zwierzęta: Fairy

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A fairy (also fay, fae or faerie/faery) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with magical, metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a Christian tradition, as deities in pagan belief systems, as spirits of the dead, as prehistoric precursors to humans, or as…

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Yaoguai (Chinese: 妖怪; pinyin: yāoguài) represent a broad and diverse class of ambiguous creatures in Chinese folklore and mythology defined by the possession of supernatural powers and by having attributes that partake of the quality of the weird, the strange or the unnatural. They are especially associated with transformation and enchantment. They often dwell in remote areas or on the fringes of civilization where they produce all manner of unexplainable phenomena and mischief. They often have predatory or malevolent tendencies. Yaoguai vary considerably from one another in appearance and powers, and depending on the particular individual or type, as being capable of shapeshifting, creatin…

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Winx Club is an animated series co-produced by Rainbow SpA and later Nickelodeon. Its characters were created and designed by comic artist Iginio Straffi. The show takes place in a magical dimension where a group of fairy warriors defends their universe from villains. The group, named the Winx Club, attends the Alfea College for Fairies. The Winx Club is led by Bloom, a girl from Earth who thought she was an average human until discovering to be the Fairy of the Dragon Flame. The original group includes Stella, the Fairy of the Sun and Moon and (in later seasons) Fairy of the Shining Sun; Musa, the Fairy of Music; Tecna, the Fairy of Technology; and Flora, the Fairy of Nature. They share an…

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Magical Thinking and Appearance-Based Recusal. This article is a critical analysis of a fundamental judicial ethic, the appearance of impartiality, an increasingly important public issue that is poorly understood and woefully underexamined in jurisprudence and academic literature. The ethic is pivotal to the determination of judicial disqualification, a/k/a recusal, and the public’s fragile trust in the rule of law.<br><br>The article explains how a mysterious metaphorical device, the “reasonable observer” (a descendant of the common law’s “reasonable man”) has been subjectively applied in a confusing and inconsistent manner in judicial disqualification cases. The unexamined approach has un…