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Magical Folk. British & irish Fairies. 500 AD to the Present. First edition. by Young, Simon and Houlbrook, Ceri - 2018
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Magical Folk. British & irish Fairies. 500 AD to the Present. First edition.
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London: Gibson Square Books, 2018. First edition. Hardback. 256pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. When Tinker Bell followed Peter Pan to Hollywood in the 1950s, fairies vanished into the realm of child-lore. Yet in 1923 30-yea-old J.R.R. Tolkien's visit to his aunt's house (Bag's End) inspired a story about hedgerow fairies or 'Hobbits', and three years earlier Arthur Conan Doyle published the Cottingley fairy photographs. In Ireland, a generation before, family members had torched a woman to death thinking she was a fairy, while William Butler Yeats met a fairy queen in a coastal cave. Today British & Irish fairy interest has recovered its old lustre, and gathered here is the latest learning from leading folklorists and historians. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish newspapers and ephemera, There are fairy sightings in urbanised locations and remote rural areas: characters and means to ward off evil fairies vary radically from place to place. In Sussex, there is the helpful 'Master Dobbs' or Dobby, while in Ireland Fairies may be the dead, and Scotland harbours the Whooping Stoorie. In addition, 'Magical Folk' includes findings from The Fairy Census, the first scholarly survey of 21st century fairy sightings in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that the connection with the past continues unbroken. Another new discovery is that fairies travelled across the Atlantic well before Tinker Bell made it onto the silver screen. The most homesick fairies may have been the ones who dunked one Roderick repeatedly in the Atlantic Ocean as they dragged him to Ireland and back to his Canadian home. Book and dust jacket in fine, almost as new, condition. Little evidence of use. Dust jacket unclipped and in a removable protective sleeve.
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- Keywords Fairy folk, folk tales, Hobbits, Elves, Pixies
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