The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
10 best books like The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (Katharine M. Briggs): The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, 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, Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People, 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 Coming of the Fairies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History
| 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 | Carole G. Silver |
| ISBN | 0195121996 |
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...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
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...
| 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 | Janet Bord |
| ISBN | 0440226120 |
Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe found in Ireland...fairy dust discovered on Mount Shasta, California...the wondrous sighting of a winged woman inside a rose.
These and many more astounding accounts offer tangible evidence...
| 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 | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0803266553 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs seemingly showing two young girls playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies.
To demonstrate his unshakable belief in the spirit world,...
Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with...
| 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 | Wendy Froud |
| ISBN | 0743202341 |
Carefully combing his ears and tail and wearing his finest red felt boots, a furry young faery named Sneezle prepares for the Midwinter festival in Old Oak Wood -- the oldest faery court in the British Isles. All the denizens of the wood have gathered for this grand winter holiday...but this year something...
| 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 | Carl Lindahl |
| ISBN | 0195147723 |
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...
Shadows of Myth and Legend
| Author | E.J. Stevens |
| ISBN | 0984247513 |
I love poetry and so when I opened up this particular book for the first time and started reading, I quickly became captured by the imagery and depth that is so beautifully revealed within this amazing collection of paranormal poems written by E.J. Stevens.
This slim book is divided into...
| Author | Bob Curran |
| ISBN | 0811822761 |
What is your best defense against a phosphorescent land sheerie? Can you really find contentment with a wealthy merrow wife? The answers are disclosed at last in A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, the first and only such guide available. Expertly researched and compiled by an authority on the subject,...
| Author | Nevill Drury |
| ISBN | 8441408858 |
He aquí un regalo extraordinario: el libro secreto de Merlín lleno de sorprendentes poderes, conjuros y encantamietos.Las claves para dominar los elementos de la tierra, el fuego, el agua y el aire y los símbolos mágicos. Aquí se hallan las fórmulas secretas para convocar a los espíritus,...
| Author | Signe Pike |
| ISBN | 0399536175 |
In search of something to believe in once more, Signe Pike left behind a career in Manhattan to undertake a magical journey-literally. In a sweeping tour through Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, and beyond, she takes readers to dark glens and abandoned forests, ancient sacred sites, and local...
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415976707 |
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...
Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0679759247 |
Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our culture's most hallowed legends inform...
Growing up the son of a fairy King – Easy.
Being accepted to the fiercest, strongest, fairy warrior army ever to protect the realm – Easy.
Making the human girl, who holds your destiny in her hands, fall in love with you – Not so Easy.
When the Fairy Kingdom of Avalon...
