Imp

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Imp”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Simon Blocquel (1780–1863, under the pseudonym Julia Orsini), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.