Elves (family: Circulifestidae) are a species of powerful, humanoid, woodland-dwelling faerie. While Elves enjoy pastimes such as feasting and merrymaking, they are temperamental, but also wise and dignified. Elves are beautiful and slender in appearance, and their clothing, skin, and hair is subject to seasonal change. Elves organize themselves under regional monarchies, and seem to be of such a status that they can command the respect even of "lesser" faeries. "Elves are capricious by nature,
Common Ground Goblin rare goblin who is mischievous but good-natured is known as a hobgoblin. Goblins and Hobgoblins are related to Knockers. A Goblin pack camped in a forest north of the Estate. This pack consisted of Claw-Snotbelly, Flowerbutt and around eight others. Hogsqueal lived with this pack until he tried to save a cat from being eaten by the others. As penance, the Goblins locked him in a cage. The pack later captured Simon Grace and a Griffin named Byron. After Jared and Mallory resc
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Sprites. Dazzling in colour and about the size of large insects, sprites have glistening membranous wings. In fact, they are often confused with exotic insects or flowers at first glance. Considered by many to be the most common type of faerie, sprites prefer to live in deep woods and make their homes high in the branches of trees. They particularly love to live in forests inhabited by treefolk an
Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Trolls. Trolls are afflicted with a ravenous and never-ending hunger that leads them to devour whole flocks of livestock. In particular they have a taste for sheep, but they will eat whatever they can catch. Trolls can survive extreme weather conditions and therefore tend to settle as far as possible from human settlements. Nocturnal by necessity since sunlight will turn them instantly to stone, t
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Part 3
The term "Faerie", or "fey", is used to collectively refer to any magical creature living within the Invisible World. Faerie can also be another name for the Invisible World itself. Faeries usually remain invisible or disguised to human eyes, who are generally not aware of their presence. However, a small percentage of humans have the ability to see faeries, commonly called the 'Sight', acquired naturally (for example, by being the seventh son of a seventh son or having red hair) or artificially
Care and Feeding of Sprites is a book written by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi accompaning the Spiderwick Chronicles and Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. As the name suggests, the book's subject is how to keep a Sprite as a pet. Letter from Simon Grace Explanation of Terms and Images Used in This Book The Magnificent Sprite Anatomy of a Sprite Selecting Your Sprite Obtaining Your Sprite What's Not a Sprite Sexing Your Sprite Housing Your Sprit
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Sprites. Dazzling in colour and about the size of large insects, sprites have glistening membranous wings. In fact, they are often confused with exotic insects or flowers at first glance. Considered by many to be the most common type of faerie, sprites prefer to live in deep woods and make their homes high in the branches of trees. They particularly love to live in forests inhabited by treefolk an
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Part 3
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Manticores. Originally documented in Persia, the feared, man-eating manticore, or manticora, has been sighted in places as varied as the jungles of Brazil and Indonesia and, more rarely, the forests of North America and Europe. With the body of a lion and a tail of poisonous spines some reports indicate can be shot like arrows, a manticore is a lethal predator. It eats its victims whole using its
Merfolk (family: Sirenidae) are a species of aquatic, marine faerie. They are mostly defined by their having a humanoid upper-body, with the long tail of a fish (or other marine sea-dwelling species) in place of legs. Merfolk are also known for their extremely beautiful singing voices, capable of luring Giants. Though curious Merfolk sometimes come ashore, the species has held a general antipathy towards the land and the humans since time immemorial. "As stunningly gorgeous as they are dangerous
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
Nixies are freshwater faeries seen in Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. Guardians of freshwater pools and streams, nixies, (also called naiads and nixes) are bound to the body of water in which they dwell. They are most commonly spotted alone and can be identified by the liquid continuously streaming from their hair and clothes as well as the greenish sheen of their skin. Nixies are amphibious and, unlike mermaids, they have legs rather than a tail. Nixies love music and dancing. Look for instru
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This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Phookas. This mischievous and roguish trickster can appear in the form of a horse, rabbit, goat, dog or sometimes even a human. But no matter what form the Phooka takes, its fur is almost always dark. In horse form, a Phooka will lure humans to ride on its back. Unlike a Kelpie, however, the Phooka will not do the rider any real harm but will take the unfortunate person on a wild and terrifying ri
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Boggarts. Abuse of a brownie, either through neglect of chores, failure to leave out food, or deliberate insult, will turn it into a Boggart Also known as bogans or bogies, boggarts delight in tormenting those they once protected and will cause milk to sour, doors to slam, dogs to go lame and other mischief. Boggart's particularly like to steal food and to hide household items like keys and socks.
The famous field guide of the Spiderwick Chronicles' books.
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This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Pixies. Tricksy by nature, pixies particularly delight in tormenting humans. For this reason, they can be found living in suburban and rural areas, and sometimes even in the parks of cities, any greensward, basically, where people are frequent. Ranging between two feet and the height of a human child, pixies (also known as piskies) make their homes in the hollows of logs, lean-tos formed by felled
This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about the Treefolk. Although all trees are magical and many sacred to faeries, only a few trees are sentient. These are treemen and women. Treefolk can take on a humanoid shape and move a short distance from their tree, or, in extreme cases, uproot the entire tree and use the roots as a shuffling form of locomotion. In their humanoid form, treefolk are often described as resembling their tree, so that a
