African and African-American Tradition

There are a few schools of African magical thinking. The oldest kind involves legends of people who can fly. Stories vary, but the root of the legend seems to have a grain of truth: mages from the Igbo tribe in particular are known for spellworked wings they can employ to fly great distances. The spells for creating these wings have largely been lost, both to the African-American culture and to the modern Igbo, though some sets of wings still exist as tribal artifacts.

Another school of thought comes to America by way of the Caribbean, hudu and its central figure of Papa Legba. Papa Legba is largely thought to be one of the fae, as is the trickster figure, Anansi. Anansi in particular is thought to be a Pooka or something similar in nature, considering his tendency toward an animal and a human form, the transfer between which defies the laws of physics (shapechangers still adhere to the laws of mass conservation when changing shape).