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At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things

10 best books like At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things (Diane Purkiss): Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, Meeting the Other Crowd, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
AuthorCarole G. Silver
ISBN0195121996
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
AuthorNina Auerbach
ISBN0226032043
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
AuthorValerie Paradiž
ISBN0465054919
Most people know the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, but very few know that behind the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales stood a network of sisters-and mothers, neighbors, and female friends. In this intimate history, Valerie Paradiz tells the real story of the greatest literary collaboration...
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
AuthorJoan Gould
ISBN0812975456
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
AuthorMaria Tatar
ISBN0691000883
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing...
Meeting the Other Crowd
AuthorEddie Lenihan
ISBN0717136590
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.

In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
AuthorCatherine Orenstein
ISBN0465041264
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0877735263
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and...
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
AuthorSheldon Cashdan
ISBN0465008968
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN0385486812
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.

Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
AuthorKatharine M. Briggs
ISBN0415286018
Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds. to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author. Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies. and in this...
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0374223017
No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age. Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented...
The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
AuthorRobert Kirk
ISBN1590171772
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology." — Times Literary Supplement
In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking...
The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People
AuthorThomas Keightley
ISBN0517263130
Finally finished it! Enjoyed it so much. A great collection of folklore from all over the world.

I will caution: not a book to read if you're looking for something light. I was sometimes frustrated by the lack of English in certain sections. Almost all of the Spain section I couldn't read because...
Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia
AuthorCarol Rose
ISBN0393317927
In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various...
Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
AuthorCarl Lindahl
ISBN0195147723
Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious...
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0415976707
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives...
Complete Guide to Faeries Magical Beings: Explore the Mystical Realm of the Little People
AuthorCassandra Eason
ISBN1578632676
If you have ever believed in a world beyond the everyday, this is the book to help you find it. A Complete Guide to Faeries and Magical Beings is a wonderful companion for those who wish to tour an enchanted world. Cassandra Eason begins with the myths, legends, and real evidence surrounding the origins...
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
AuthorEdward Carpenter
CONTENTS
Introductory
Solar Myths and Christian Festivals
The Symbolism of the Zodiac
Totem-Sacraments and Eucharists
Food and Vegetation Magic
Magicians, Kings and Gods
Rites of Expiation and Redemption
Pagan Initiations and the Second Birth
Myth of...
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