Magical Folk

British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The phenomenal success of Tolkien and JK Rowling have restored magical folk to the adult world. The reader will discover that Hobbits hail from Tolkien's aunt's manor farm Bag-End and Harry Potter's Master Dobbs is part of ancient folklore. Fairies are often nothing like the ones conjured up by writers and Hollywood. Some are worse than soccer hooligans. They are irascible, blood-sucking, bed-hopping. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish local newspapers and other local ephemera, and by the Fairy Census conducted by the authors.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-28
Mått:129 x 198 x 13 mm
Vikt:348 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Gibson Square Books Ltd
ISBN:9781783341023

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Dr Simon Young (editor) is from Cumbria and a professor of history at the Umbra Institute, Florence. Ceri Houlbrook (editor) is a history and architecture lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.

Recensioner i media

'Enchanting.' Mail on Sunday; 'Engaging and authoritative... British fairies, it turns out, are classic eccentrics.' Sunday Telegraph; 'Detail on local mythology... sparkling.' Literary Review; 'A big insight into the lives of little people... provocative.'; Glasgow Herald; 'A gazetteer of myths, legends, and sightings.' Independent

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements & Editors' Note 6We Need to Talk about Fairies 7Fairy Tribes Biographies English Fairies1 Fairy Queens and Pharisees 2 Pucks and Lights 3 Pixies and Pixy Rocks 4 Fairy Magic and the Cottingley Photographs 5 Fairy Barrows and Cunning Folk 6 Fairy Holes and Fairy Butter Celtic and Norse Fairies7 The Sidhe and Fairy Forts 8 The Seelie and Unseelie Courts 9 Trows and Trowie Wives Orkney and Shetland by Laura Coulson10 The Fair Folk and Enchanters Wales by Richard Suggett11 Pouques and the Faiteaux 12 George Waldron and the Good People 13 Piskies and Knockers Travelling Fairies14 Puritans and Pukwudgies 15 Fairy Bread and Fairy Squalls 16 Banshees and Changelings Notes