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"Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the Greek nymph Aba to the shy Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe"--

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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those

Garden ornaments and furniture. --- Follies (Architecture) --- Hermitages. --- Hermits. --- Gnomes. --- Fairies --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- Cells of hermits --- Hermits' cells --- Hermits --- Monasteries --- Follies --- Folly (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Pavilions --- Garden fixtures --- Decoration and ornament --- Garden structures --- Outdoor furniture