The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
10 best books like The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (W.B. Yeats): The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends, Celtic Fairy Tales, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Omnibus Edition, Meeting the Other Crowd, British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881), At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, 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, The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People, Celtic Myths and Legends
| Author | W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| ISBN | 1564147088 |
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.
Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394502485 |
A book on the themes in northern European -- British, German, Scandinavian -- folklore, with some bits roving farther afield on some themes.
Each chapter has a theme -- passage of time in Fairy, slower or (less typically) faster -- the fairies' moral views (and double standards) on lying and...
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0486218260 |
The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.
The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and...
| Author | Michael Scott |
| ISBN | 0751508861 |
This summer I picked up a book called, Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Omnibus by Michael Scott, from Dublin Ireland. This book compiled 17 Irish folk tales into one. It caught my attention because the first three stories are about the sorrows of Irish storytelling. It takes upon various tales and roles them...
| Author | Eddie Lenihan |
| ISBN | 0717136590 |
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...
1881. In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales,...
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
| Author | Robert Kirk |
| ISBN | 1590171772 |
"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...
| Author | Thomas Keightley |
| ISBN | 0517263130 |
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...
| Author | Peter Berresford Ellis |
| ISBN | 0786711078 |
This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures of Western Europe-Irish,...
| Author | Anne Ross |
| ISBN | 0897334353 |
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr. Anne Ross writes...
| Author | Carol Rose |
| ISBN | 0393317927 |
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...
| Author | Alwyn Rees |
| ISBN | 0500270392 |
In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Rees reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently...
| Author | James MacKillop |
| ISBN | 0192801201 |
This new work offers an exhaustive survey of one of the world's most fertile and exciting mythological traditions. It covers the persons, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, in all its ancient and modern traditions, in 4000 entries ranging from brief definitions to extended...
| Author | Moyra Caldecott |
| ISBN | 0892813571 |
In Celtic myth, the mixture of wise spiritual teaching and dramatic imagery creates new, potent, and disturbing visions. This selection of eleven storiessome more than 3,000 years old focuses on the women of ancient British mythology, from the formidable women warriors who trained heros to fight...
| Author | Charles Squire |
| ISBN | 0517101572 |
This is one from my PC shelf; not one to read cover-to-cover, I refer back to this from time to time, and read it sporatically. Lots of interesting bits about the Celts..
2/15/08: I am currently in the midst of reading "The Mists of Avalon" (heehee), and so I am reading bits of this as a sort of "background";...
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 0713727837 |
"...well-researched, rather scholarly book...fanciful illustrations, in both black-and-white and color..."--Publishers Weekly. "Matthews...offers a very attractively presented collection...wonderfully illustrated...Not since the offerings of Jeremiah Curtin, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory,...
| Author | David Thomson |
| ISBN | 1582431841 |
Raised among Scottish fishermen and storytellers, David Thomson was obsessed from childhood by the Celtic seal legend, the body of tales and songs about the "selchie," or gray Atlantic seal. In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on...
| Author | T.W. Rolleston |
| ISBN | 0486265072 |
This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the myths of the Irish invasion...
Complete Guide to Faeries Magical Beings: Explore the Mystical Realm of the Little People
| Author | Cassandra Eason |
| ISBN | 1578632676 |
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...
