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Recent Examples of kelpieBut the dead dog is now believed to be their Australian kelpie mix, Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility which is involved in the surviving dogs’ care, said to The Associated Press.—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 The sheriff’s office initially said the dog was a German shepherd found in a closet, but later clarified the dog was the couple’s kelpie mix, Zinna, and was found in a crate, according to the Associated Press.—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025 The couples’ kelpie mix, Zinna, is the dog that was reportedly found dead.—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025 The couple’s German shepherd, named Bear, survived along with a second dog named Nikita, but their kelpie mix, Zinna, died, according to Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility that is involved in the surviving dogs’ care.—Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025 One of the couple's three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, also was found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa.—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025 One of the couple's three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, was also found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, while two other dogs were found alive.—CBS News, 1 Apr. 2025 One of the couple’s three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, also was found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa.—Morgan Lee, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025 Gene, 95, and his wife, classical pianist Betsy, 65, were found dead at their home along with their dog, a kelpie mix named Zinna, in Santa Fe Summit on Wednesday, Feb. 26.—Sharareh Drury, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
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Huntley Woods,
EW.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.
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Sen. Dan Hall,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
Featuring humans, elves, orcs and other fantastical creatures engaging in wars, treasure hunts and campaigns, the D&D game, one of Hasbro’s key franchise brands hailing from Wizards of the Coast, is overseen by a host, known as the Dungeon Master, and employs a signature multisided dice.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
The film, directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum, follows Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised as an elf in Santa’s workshop who returns to New York City to meet his biological father, played by the late James Caan.
Channel your inner leprechaun at a bar crawl across downtown spots like Penn Social and Hill Country.
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Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
In the United States, March 17 is typically associated with large parties and parades, green beer, Irish food and drink, and motifs like shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold.
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Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Mar. 2025
The college campus pixie dust carried through to a top-notch step show performed by some HBCU (Historically Black College and University) fraternities and sororities.
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DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
4 Apr. 2025
No need for pixie dust when a simple badge can bring the best news ever!
Alexis Allen had the surprise of a lifetime for her 11-year-old daughter Addison during a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The streets are lined with red brick homes and two-story family dwellings, and the yards are decorated with a collection of toys, gnomes and doormats.
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Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
1 Mar. 2025
There’s also the Sandman (Veronica Shakespeares), a drug dealer who looks like a gnome (my research revealed this is Sandmännchen, a popular German character from a TV show with over 22,000 episodes).
Meaningful Content Moderation Businesses have a responsibility to their brand and customers to protect their online properties from harmful content, internet trolls and other not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content.
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Vidya Plainfield,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
The online troll, of course, misses the mark on all three of these categories.
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