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{{wikipediainfo}}{{blur image|[[File:Nymph.png|thumb|right|310px|The Nymph [[Sprite (Enchanted)|Sprite]] standing next to the [[Elf]] [[Erman]] in [[Universe A (Enchanted)|one universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enchanted (comic story)|Enchanted]]'')]]|non-sexual nudity}}'''Nymphs''' were a species or class of female, supernatural humanoids.

In [[Universe A (Enchanted)|one fantasy world]], Nymphs existed among many other magical humanoids living in harmony in [[Little Noodlington|a city]] and surrounding kingdom in a forest. One of them was called [[Sprite (Enchanted)|Sprite]]. She was a talented spell-caster, one of a few whom the [[fae|fairy]] [[Jai-Jai]] acknowledged as superior to herself in that respect. Sprite was as tall as a human woman, but had green skin, purple hair, and big, pointy, horizontal ears similar to a fairy's. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enchanted (comic story)|Enchanted]]'')

According to a potentially-apocryphal Greek myth from the [[Prime Universe|Prime]] [[Earth]], there existed a nymph called [[Ἀκάνθα]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'')

The eldritch, interdimensionally-active [[Santa Claus (A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas)|Santa Claus]] with whom the [[Great Higher-Up]]s of the [[925th Universe]] had an alliance was known as the “son of nymphs and ruler of [[Elf|elves]]” among other titles. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
Most of Santa Claus's titles in ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'' are loose references to {{w|L. Frank Baum|L. Frank Baum}}'s ''{{w|The Life and Times of Santa Claus|Life and Times of Santa Claus}}'', where Santa was found as a baby, adopted and raised by a “Wood Nymph” called Necile. The 2024 reedit of the story dubbed him “[[the Hag-Son of Zurline]]”; Zurline in the same Baum novel was the Queen of Nymphs, but, although she presided over his adoption by Necile, was not originally his adoptive mother herself.

== External links ==
* '''[https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Wood_nymphs ''Wood nymphs'' on the Oz Wiki]'''

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