#yumboes

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baby namyzo and some of the critters that live in her world

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Yumboes!! 🧝🏾‍♀️

The African counterpart to elves. Their original folklore is that they're tiny white/silver colored spirits that are attached to humans.

In my interpretation they're a bit different. They're small - not tiny, but around half the size of a halfling. They live in little rural villages and trade resources with humans. The males have naturally dark hair. The females have silver/white hair.

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Haarâ Queens

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Haarâ Fairytail Astrid & Géraldine Hairart: Séphora Joannes

Make-up: Jadiz Mua Paris Photo: Firmafromina

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Unpopular Faerie Opinions

Corgis were fairy steeds in ancient Welsh tradition . . . if by ancient Wales you mean 1940s England. More

Yumboes, the silver-haired African fairies, were either an Irish writer’s creation or a very garbled version of a Senegalese tribe’s ghost lore. More

Pillywiggins, the cute little insectoid flower fairies whose queen is named Ariel, are not cute little insectoid flower fairies and their queen is not named Ariel. Those factoids are from fantasy books based on a single encyclopedia in the 1970s. There are no existing mentions of pillywiggins before that encyclopedia. More

Asrai, the ghostly water nymphs of Shropshire, were an original fantasy species in a 19th-century poem. Then in 1970, a self-described psychic wrote her own story about them and claimed it was from ancient Shropshire tradition. More

Freybugs actually were a thing in medieval English legend. It’s just that their name has been misspelled in modern materials. More

That’s not to say these stories are bad or invalid. I love these stories. I’m just highly skeptical of their supposed ages and countries of origin.

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Yumboes...

... are small white elves with silvery hair, from the folklore of the Wolof people of Senegal, Africa. They’ve appeared in a few things, including the extended Harry Potter universe.

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