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An alternative name for Morgan le Fay , the faery shapeshifting half-sister of King Arthur (both "fata" and "Fay" mean fairy .) The other uses of the phrase below derive from this use, all meaning an illusion, or illusory prospect. a fata morgana , a mirage and optical phenomenon A 1573 building, Fonte di Fata Morgana Fata Morgana , a 19th century poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. An 1868 polka by Johann Strauss , op. 330 "Fata Morgana", a humorous, somewhat bumbling witch character in an 1919 absurdist opera by Sergei Prokofiev , The Love for Three Oranges . Fata Morgana , a 1931 play by Ernest Vajda . Fata Morgana , a 1952 Miss Marple crime novel by Agatha Christie . Fata Morgana , a 1969 film by Werner Herzog . Fata Morgana , a 1977 crime novel by William Kotzwinkle . Fata Morgana , an annual review since 1996, publishing prize-winning short stories in Italian, with the themes "doubles, opposites, enemies, lovers." Fata Morgana , a 1999 science fiction book (ISBN 0671578766) by Leo Frankowski, that deals with a floating continent.