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Caelia (“SEE-lia”), a queen of these creatures, rules over a land where women have killed their warmongering (-5[1])men in Richard Johnson’s (-5[1])Tom a Lincoln. In a work titled for one of these creatures, Archimago tricks a knight into thinking his love Una is unchaste; (10[1])that man, the Redcrosse Knight, serves one of these creatures named Gloriana who represents Queen (10[1])Elizabeth I. (10[2])Another one of these creatures calls himself “that merry wanderer of the night” and anoints Lysander’s eyes with a purple flower (10[1])that makes a queen (10[1])of these (10[1])creatures fall (10[1])in love (10[3])with Bottom. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])these creatures exemplified by Oberon and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ■END■

ANSWER: faeries [or fairies or fae; accept The Faerie Queene]
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