thumb|right|upright=1.25|French illustration of imps ()
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- Subclass of
- supernatural beings in Slavic folklore
- Part of
- German folklore
- Image
- Imp with cards - illustration from Le grand Etteilla.jpg
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- Unicode character
- 👿
- present in work
- The Bottle Imp
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- Imps
- partially coincident with
- familiar
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thumb|right|upright=1.25|French illustration of imps ()
An imp is a European mythological being similar to a fairy or demon, frequently described in folklore and superstition. The word may perhaps derive from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted tree.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “imp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.