British Fairies

Author : John Kruse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0995547858

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British Fairies by John Kruse Pdf

The myths and legends of the Fair Folk are the oldest in Britain and our Fairy lore is unique to this island. Meetings with Faery are well recorded. Humans have always been aware of a form of life called Fairy, but how exactly do we meet these beings? What is their physical form and nature, and how and where do they live? Here is a deep analysis of the traditional knowledge of the nature of Fairies, and their importance to us, combined with an examination of our interaction with Faery.

Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Gibson Square
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Fairies
ISBN : 1783341025

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Magical Folk by Simon Young Pdf

Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780239422

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Fairies by Richard Sugg Pdf

Don’t be fooled by Tinkerbell and her pixie dust—the real fairies were dangerous. In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from the Fallen Angels and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, fairies caused ordinary people to flee their homes out of fear, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on in places well into the twentieth century. Often associated with witchcraft and black magic, fairies were also closely involved with reports of ghosts and poltergeists. In literature and art, the fairies still retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, Christina Rosetti’s improbably erotic poem “Goblin Market,” or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years, the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. As changeable as changelings themselves, fairies have transformed over time like no other supernatural beings. And in this book, Richard Sugg tells the story of how the fairies went from terror to Tink.

Author : Wirt Sikes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781365619663

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British Goblins by Wirt Sikes Pdf

British Goblins - Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions. British Goblins does a good job at its stated purpose - collecting and loosely categorizing Welsh Folklore of every category, ranging from the reasons behind certain customs and superstitions of daily life, to descriptions and associated stories of various faeries, goblins, and giants, to descriptions of apparitions and the view of the afterlife, to more fantastic things, like dragons, standing stones, and magic wells and stones. Although a somewhat anecdotal approach is taken, the author has in fact preserved a good deal of information that might have otherwise been lost.

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Fairies
ISBN : IND:39000005812735

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British Fairy Origins by Lewis Spence Pdf

Author : Regina Buccola
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911035

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Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith by Regina Buccola Pdf

Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.

Author : Valerie J. Korinek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802095312

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Prairie Fairies by Valerie J. Korinek Pdf

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on five major urban centres, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairie Fairies explores the regional experiences and activism of queer men and women by looking at the community centres, newsletters, magazines, and organizations that they created from 1930 to 1985.? Challenging the preconceived narratives of queer history, Valerie J. Korinek argues that the LGBTTQ community has a long history in the prairie west, and that its history, previously marginalized or omitted, deserves attention. Korinek pays tribute to the prairie activists and actors who were responsible for creating spaces for socializing, politicizing, and organizing this community, both in cities and rural areas. Far from the stereotype of the isolated, insular Canadian prairies of small towns and farming communities populated by faithful farm families, Prairie Fairies historicizes the transformation of prairie cities, and ultimately the region itself, into a predominantly urban and diverse place.

Author : Piotr Spyra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000092813

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The Liminality of Fairies by Piotr Spyra Pdf

Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of liminality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Thomas of Erceldoune and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, the volume offers a comprehensive theory of liminality rooted in structuralist anthropology and poststructuralist theory. Arguing that romance fairies both embody and represent the liminal, The Liminality of Fairies posits and answers fundamental theoretical questions about the limits of representation and the relationship between romance hermeneutics and criticism. The interdisciplinary nature of the argument will appeal not just to medievalists and literary critics but also to anthropologists, folklorists as well as scholars working within the fields of cultural history and contemporary literary theory.

Author : Alexandra Bennett
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1718047916

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Of British Fairies and Bridget Cleary, Revisited by Alexandra Bennett Pdf

British history is steeped in fairy tales, superstitions and fairy lore, and this revisited edition of Bennett's original work looks in depth at some of the strange sightings of fairies and fairy-like creatures that have been believed to exist over the centuries around the British Isles. Bennett also looks into the case of Bridget Cleary - the last "witch" burned in Ireland, who was actually believed to have been a fairy changeling. Welcome to a world of superstition, lore and all things fairy.

Author : E. Dearnley
Publisher : British Library
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0712354301

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Fearsome Fairies by E. Dearnley Pdf

Fearsome Fairies taps into the enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and includes cornerstone authors of the Weird genre such as Arthur Machen, M R James and Charlotte Riddell. You see - no, you do not, but I see - such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when you least expect it, and looking close into your face, as if they were searching for someone - who may be thankful, I think, if they do not find him. There was an enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which popularised depictions of benevolent, butterfly-winged beings and glittering pantomime figures. But the fae have always had a more sinister side. Taking inspiration from folk tales and medieval legends, the works of weird tale and ghost story writers such as Arthur Machen, M. R. James, Angela Carter and Charlotte Riddell show that fairies, goblins and other supernatural entities could be something far more unsettling. Delving into a frightening realm of otherworldly creatures from banshees to changelings, this new collection of stories revives and revels in the fearsome power of the fairy folk.

Author : Janet Bord
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782432449

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Fairies by Janet Bord Pdf

Tales of fairies at the bottom of the garden are usually dismissed as fantasy, but many ordinary people claim to have encountered them. Fairy lore has a long history, deeply ingrained in the folk memory of many different peoples and cultures. Janet Bord's fascinating investigation of this unexplored aspect of the supernatural reveals where you might be expected to meet fairies, under what circumstances, and what they would look or sound like. The author investigates the strong links that exist between sightings of fairies and of creatures alighting from UFOs. Are fairies beings from other planets, fallen angels, or our primitive ancestors? Whatever the verdict, the evidence of fairies is surprisingly convincing.

Author : Yoshitaka Amano
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781621155522

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Fairies by Yoshitaka Amano Pdf

Yoshitaka Amano's lush ethereal paintings of magical creatures, spirits, goblins, and apparitions have been praised and admired all over the world. In Fairies he turns his considerable talent to capturing in breathtaking images characters from such beloved stories as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the wizard Merlin and his muse the intoxicating Nimue, mermaids of the deep as well as his interpretation of fairies from Celtic and Japanese mythology.

Author : Gail Carson Levine
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423143338

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Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine Pdf

Fairy Haven's newest arrival, Prilla, along with Rani and Vidia, embarks on a journey filled with danger, sacrifice, and adventure. The fate of Never Land rests on their shoulders.

Author : Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198028468

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Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English Pdf

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 ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.

Author : Marjorie T. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1938398386

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SEEING FAIRIES by Marjorie T. Johnson Pdf

THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK. Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewives, journalists, clergymen, bus drivers, anglers, gypsies, school teachers, university professors, soldiers, artists, authors, poets, musicians, sculptors, actresses, and many others who have seen fairies of various types in houses, churches, and sheds; in gardens, fields, woods, country lanes, and public parks; on moors, hills, and mountains; and even on sewing machines, typewriters, and kitchen stoves. In 1950 Marjorie T. Johnson became Honorary Secretary of a resurrected Fairy Investigation Society, which had been founded by Capt. Quentin C. A. Craufurd, and she collected accounts of fairies and also angelic beings from many of the members. In 1955 the Scottish author and folklorist Alasdair Alpin MacGregor collaborated with her in sending letters to the national press asking for further true experiences, and many more were received. The result is this book, published here in English for the first time. Marjorie Johnson's only request was that readers peruse the book with an open mind.