Fairy-locks

N'akụkọ akụkọ ifo, ihe mgbachi (ma ọ bụ elflocks) bụ ihe na-esi n'akụkọ ifo na-akụgharị ma na-akụ ntutu ụmụaka na-ehi ụra na anụ anụ ka ndị na-eme egwuregwu na-esi na ntutu isi ha n'abalị.

 Omenala ndị England 
Ebu ụzọ gosipụta echiche a n'asụsụ Bekee na Shakespeare's Romeo na Juliet n'okwu Mercutio nke ọtụtụ nrigbu nke Queen Mab, ebe o yiri ka ọ na-egosi na mkpọchi ahụ adịghị enwe ihu ọma ma ọ bụrụ na agbachapụ ya:

 "Ọ bụ fada" midwife, ọ na-abịa
 N'ọdịdị na-adịghị ukwuu karịa nkume agate.......

 Nke ahụ na-eme ka ịnyịnya dị nro n'abalị
 Ọ na-eme ka ndị elflocks nwee ntutu isi na-adịghị mma.
 Nke a na-emebu ihe ọghọm, nke na-eme ka ọ bụrụ ihe na-adịghị mma."

Ya mere, a pụrụ ịkọwa aha nke elf lock ma ọ bụ fairy lock na mgbagwoju anya na eriri ọ bụla a na-amaghị ebe o si pụta na-apụta na manes nke anụ ọhịa ma ọ bụ ntutu nke ụmụaka na-ehi ụra.

Ọ pụkwara izo aka na mgbagwoju anya nke elflocks ma ọ bụ fairy-locks na ntutu mmadụ. Na King Lear, mgbe Edgar na-eme ka onye ara, "n'ezie ntutu m niile na eriri. "  (Lear, ii. 3.) Ihe Edgar mere, n'ụzọ dị mfe, emeela ka ntutu ya sie ike.

Hụkwa Jane Eyre, Ch. XIX; Nkọwa Jane banyere Rochester na-eme ka ọ bụrụ Gypsy: "... elf-locks na-esi n'okpuru eriri ọcha ..." 

 Omenala ndị Germany 
Ndị Germany mmiri "elf-lock" bụ alp, Drutenzopf, Wichtelzopf, Weichelzopf Mahrenlocke, Elfklatte, wdg (ebe a na-enye alp, drude, mare, na wight dị ka ndị na-ahụ maka ya). Grimm, onye chịkọtara ndepụta ahụ, kwukwara na ya yiri Frau Holle, onye na-ejikọta ntutu ndị mmadụ na ya onwe ya nwere ntutu isi. Ojiji nke okwu elf yiri ka ọ na-ebelata n'ụzọ na-aga n'ihu n'ihu na Bekee, na-aghọ okwu dialect ime obodo, tupu ntụgharị nke akụkọ ifo na narị afọ nke iri na itoolu na akụkọ ifo na nke iri abụọ.

 Omenala ndị France 
A na-ekwu na ọ bụ Lutin ka a na-akpọ fairy-locks n'omenala ndị France.

 Omenala Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Europe 
Na Poland na mba ndị dị nso, a na-ebo ndị amoosu na ndị mmụọ ọjọọ ebubo maka ihe ndị Poland. Otú ọ dị, nke a nwere ike ịbụ ọnọdụ ahụike siri ike ma ọ bụ ntutu isi a kpachaara anya mee.   [citation needed]

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