An elf is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Ängsälvor (Swedish "Meadow Elves") by Nils Blommér (1850)
Title page of Daemonologie by James VI and I, which tried to explain traditional Scottish beliefs in terms of Christian scholarship
Alden Valley, Lancashire, possibly a place once associated with elves
Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Kibble Palace. William Goscombe John, The Elf, 1899.
A humanoid is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics. By the 20th century, the term came to describe fossils which were morphologically similar, but not identical, to those of the human skeleton.
The dwarves of Germanic mythology are an example of humanoid beings.
A model of the hypothetical Dinosauroid, Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester, UK
Honda's ASIMO is an example of a humanoid robot.