DICTIONARY ENTRY011 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Fairy
Primary indexed name: fairy.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES511.20% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONVictoria13 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1878–1925accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE23.9% geographically mapped
Fairy appears mainly through literary retellings and later adaptations, so the archive records how the figure was repeated and reshaped rather than a direct encounter sequence. The accepted archive contains 51 records from 1878–1925. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (13), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (25). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1870sPEAK 231920s
REGIONAL FIELD
19 region-coded records37.3%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01Victoria1368.4%
- 02Tasmania421.1%
- 03New South Wales210.5%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
3 organisations49.0%held by the leading source
- 01Internet Archive25
- 02Project Gutenberg17
- 03Project Gutenberg Australia9
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 51- 01fairy in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series1925 / Victoria
- 02fairy in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 03fairy in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 04fairy in Tales of the Dandenongs Second Series1925 / Victoria
- 05fairy in Australian Fairy Tales1925
- 06fairy in Australian Fairy Tales1925