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Fairies are extremely averse to having their names known, indeed there seems to be a strange identity between personality and name. Thus we are forbidden to take God’s “name in vain,” and when Jacob wrestled with the angel, he was anxious to know his opponent’s name. (Compare the Greek onoma and the Latin anima.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nain Rouge
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