Sprites (folklore)

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personification of frost and cold weather

fairy-like creatures from mythology and folklore (for sprites from a work of fiction see Q30318085)

fairy creature from European mythology

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thumb|Schrat as Carnival costume. The Schrat () or Schratt, also Schraz or Waldschrat (forest Schrat), is a rather diverse German and Slavic legendary creature with aspects of either a wood sprite, domestic sprite and/or a nightmare demon. In other languages it is further known as Skrat.

An alux (Mayan: , plural: ''aluxo'ob'' ) is a type of sprite or spirit in the mythological tradition of certain Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize and Guatemala, also called Chanekeh or Chaneque by the Nahuatl people. Aluxo'ob are conceived of as being small, only about knee-high, and in appearance resembling miniature traditionally dressed Maya people. Tradition holds that aluxob are generally invisible but are able to assume physical form for purposes of communicating with and frightening humans as well as to congregate. They are generally associated with natural features such a

The mintuci (Ainu ミントゥチ; also mintuci kamuy, also transliterated into Japanese as ) is a water sprite or an aquatic supernatural creature, a half-man-half-beast, told in stories of Ainu mythology and folklore. It is also considered a variant of the kappa and, therefore, a type of yōkai.

Monacello (), or Munaciello (), is a sprite from the traditional oral folklore of Naples, Italy.