What is the distinguishment between fairies pixies nymphs and sprites?

Answer 1

There seems to be a little debate, so I will give you several views on the subject:

Sprite [ sprīt ] (plural sprites)

noun

Definition: 1. supernatural elfin creature: in folklore, a small supernatural being like an elf or a fairy, especially one associated with water

2. somebody like elf: a small or delicately built person who is likened to an elf or a fairy

3. ghost: in folklore, a ghost or spirit

4. comput independent graphic object: an independent graphic object that moves freely across a computer screen

several types of fairies. * Elvish ones: strong, manlike, portrayed by Tolkien.

* Archangel ones: again, strong and manlike, but completed with wings.

* Wood fairies: all green and gold and earthy.

* The aforementioned sea fairies: glistening like jewels.

* Selkies: the seal people.

* Camouflage fairies: fairies that change size, color, and location when the notion strikes them.

* Dryads: spirits of trees.

* Nymphs: spirits of wells and streams.

* Tooth fairies: round and jovial (and of course, filthy rich!)

* Pixies: wee green or blue beings that shed showers of sparkles. * http://www.christianfantasy.net/towerofivory/articles/lizzienden7.htmlSprites do not have wings and are a little large and slightly more robust than the average fairy. They relie more on quickness and elusiveness than fairies. Their diet is more varied and they are not rigidily dependent on any one plant for their livelihood.

Answer 2

Fairies - like pixies, and basically another name for pixies, but can be made in many ways. Take Barbie for example, as the fairies in her movies are human sized. The fairies in Disney Fairies are pixies but are also called fairies.

Pixies - Basically a fairy is a pixie, but a pixie is not always a fairy. Pixies are known to be mischievous little people with long pointy ears. They have wings like dragonflies (and sometimes butterflies).

Sprites - Sprites are different from pixies and fairies, they are much much MUCH tinier, sometimes even microscopic, and give off a light. They can be music sprites, water sprites, or others. Sprites actually aren't even fairy-like, other that they can float around and they give off a shiny light.

Answer 3

A 'Sprite' is an umbrella term that includes all those creatures that come under the Harcourt line of descent for Hominid creatures. This includes Cobols, Goblins, Ogres, Imps, Pixies, False Pixies, True Fairies, Lesser Fairies and Higher Fairies. These are those creatures that have the Tri-scapial shoulder girdle arrangement to their skeletons.

Sprite can also refer to those 'most ancestrial' species of this group which are now rare and found only in isolated pockets of habitation. They show very specific adaptation to isolated environments and ways of life: water sprites, Denderon (Rhododendron) Sprites, Earthen Sprites, Crab grass sprites... and so on.

Pixies are those Sprites that have adapted to a meadow environment and way of life. They are as much as a foot high and are very slender for their size (uncomfortably slender from a human (my) point of view). They are tailless, green in colouration and have sharp features, pointy fingers and toes. They dress in leaves and other debris. They are solitary through-out the day but become very communal at sunset and into the night.

Fairies are those Sprites that have taken to an arboreal way of life. The Lesser Fairies (the more ancient ancestral types) are quite varied in their morphology which may or may not include: wings, tails, fur or hair tufts, hair-'thorns', claws, exaggerated features, combs and wattles, coloured or even mottled coloured hides. The Higher Fairies are one particular branch of many in the realm of the lesser fairies that meet the Victorian definition of Fairies: young child in morphology, winged, naked, tailless and comely. These Fairies almost always live in close association with flowering plants for their way of life. The True Fairies are not fairies at all (despite their name) but Pixies that have evolved to mimic the Higher Fairies in almost every way except having wings.

Nymphs are not members of the Harcourt line of descent but belong to the Pannagoaline line with brownies, elves, humans, Dwarves and hobbits. They most resemble post-adolescence human and (like mermaid) are most associated with young females. (Nymph is a Greek work referring to young ladies of marriageable age.) There are several types usually classified according to their habitat: water, forest, mountains, meadows, etc. They are closely associated with (if not the same kind of creature) as the British Morgan (as in Morgan de fey).