#5 A roguish yet on the whole benevolent fellow

A sneak peek at some of the denizens of fairyland you’ll meet in The Element Encyclopedia of Fairies… #5 Puck Shakespeare’s merry jester. Puck is now synonymous with the merry jester fairy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. However, “pucks” already existed in British folklore before Shakespeare’s time as mischievous hobgoblins. “Puck” or “pouke” was […]