Magical Folk
British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present
Published on 28. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78334-102-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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.' IndependentMore details
Edition
Enlarged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78334-102-3 (9781783341023)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Content
Acknowledgements & Editors' Note 6
We Need to Talk about Fairies 7
Fairy Tribes
Biographies
English Fairies
1 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 Fairies
7 The Sidhe and Fairy Forts
8 The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
9 Trows and Trowie Wives
Orkney and Shetland by Laura Coulson
10 The Fair Folk and Enchanters
Wales by Richard Suggett
11 Pouques and the Faiteaux
12 George Waldron and the Good People
13 Piskies and Knockers
Travelling Fairies
14 Puritans and Pukwudgies
15 Fairy Bread and Fairy Squalls
16 Banshees and Changelings
Notes
We Need to Talk about Fairies 7
Fairy Tribes
Biographies
English Fairies
1 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 Fairies
7 The Sidhe and Fairy Forts
8 The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
9 Trows and Trowie Wives
Orkney and Shetland by Laura Coulson
10 The Fair Folk and Enchanters
Wales by Richard Suggett
11 Pouques and the Faiteaux
12 George Waldron and the Good People
13 Piskies and Knockers
Travelling Fairies
14 Puritans and Pukwudgies
15 Fairy Bread and Fairy Squalls
16 Banshees and Changelings
Notes