The Science of Fairy Tales: an Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology
10 best books like The Science of Fairy Tales: an Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology (Edwin Sidney Hartland): Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, The Forest in Folklore and Mythology, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881), 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, The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia, The Gods of the Celts
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0901072370 |
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
| 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...
The Forest in Folklore and Mythology
| Author | Alexander Porteous |
| ISBN | 0486420108 |
"If you have a feeling for the mystery and enchantment of the woods, you will want to own this book." — Outlook.
Assembled from an enormous range of sources, this fascinating book is a mind-expanding compendium of facts, folklore, superstitions, myths, and anecdotes about trees and the forest....
| 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...
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 | 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,...
| 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 | 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 | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0750915811 |
This sourcebook on the Celts and their religions covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customs, cult-objects and sacred places. It introduces the Celts, describes the geographical and chronological scope of the book and examines the nature of the evidence. Further chapters cover the various cults...
| Author | Robin Chapman Stacey |
| ISBN | 0783554559 |
This book is decent, I guess, for a general overview of early Irish history, but it should be taken with many, many grains of salt due to the author's complete lack of criticism of Roman sources describing Celtic society. Chapman also glosses over certain aspects of Celtic mythology, especially in regards...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394508068 |
Katharine Briggs took her fairies seriously. She was a folklore scholar, with several Oxford degrees, and did not think fairy tales were strictly the province of children. The tales she liked were those handed down over generations by people who believed in them, as opposed to the ones “made up as...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 0766144550 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
| Author | John Arnott MacCulloch |
The Pros and Cons of the Book:
The Cons:
1. The book was not intended for the beginner. Most of the time the author assumes you know what and who he is talking about.
2. It was written at an early stage when not a lot of archeological sites were found about the Celts.
3. Some of the information...
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland
| Author | Jane Francesca Wilde |
| ISBN | 1428644520 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
The Isles of the Many Gods: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses Worshipped in Ancient Britain During the First Millenium Ce Through to the Middle
| Author | David Rankine |
| ISBN | 1905297106 |
THE ISLES OF THE MANY GODS: An A-Z of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses worshipped in Ancient Britain during the first Millenium CE through to the Middle Ages By David Rankine & Sorita D'Este The British Isles have long been seen as a place of mystery & magic. For many thousands of years successive...
The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History, 1000 BC - AD 51
| Author | Peter Berresford Ellis |
| ISBN | 0786709332 |
European recorded history north of the Alps begins with the Celts. At their height, they stretched over the ancient world from Ireland and Britain to Turkey and Czechoslovakia, from Belgium and Gaul to Spain and Italy. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and even attempted to take over the Egypt of the...
The Celts: Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture
| Author | Jean Markale |
| ISBN | 0892814136 |
While historians have tended to accord the Celts a place of minor significance in comparison to the Romans, The Celts firmly aligns the Celtic peoples as the primary European precedent to the Greco-Roman hegemony, restoring this culture to its true importance in the development of European civilization....
