Atomy
An atomy is a diminutive fairy creature or sprite of surprising smallness, that was mentioned in some historic literature.Thank You Datin Poornam Vellayan
Literature
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare describes Atomies pulling Queen Mab's carriage.
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep;
Fairy Land by Edgar Allan Poe references atomies in the last lines:
They use that moon no more
For the same end as before-
Videlicet, a tent-
Which I think extravagant:
Its atomies, however,
Into a shower dissever,
Of which those butterflies
Of Earth, who seek the skies,
And so come down again,
(Never-contented things!)
Have brought a specimen
Upon their quivering wings.
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