Books : Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.2103
EAN num: 9780394734675
ISBN number: 039473467X
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: August 12, 1978
Publishing house: Pantheon
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 590894
Studio: Pantheon
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A complete guide to fairy lore from the Middle Ages to the present. Both an anthology of fairy tales and a reference work with essays about the fairy economy, food, sports, powers and more.
Amazon.com Review:
Perhaps she should have called it 'Everything You Wanted to Know about Fairies, but Were Afraid to Ask.' This book covers every type of 'little people' from abbey lubbers to Young Tam Lin. Not just the tiny, translucent winged pixies of popular art, but brownies, goblins and bogies, even larger creatures like dragons and mermaids. Exhaustive in its coverage, while still entertaining.
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I lost my copy of this book several years ago, and I'm really glad to finally find a replacement. A terrific resource and a great read, this book is full of the kind of folk stories that don't make perfect sense-- when the storyteller truly believes in something, it doesn't have to make sense. It just is.
A good guide to Fairies, and to the fact that traditional Fairies are not cute winged girls. They are dangerous and capricious and interesting and alien, and even the good ones are scary. If you like stories, then the lesson is worth learning.
This is the only reference book I've ever read, cover to cover.
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Don't be misled by other books - this one is chock full of excellent supported material and well worth the purchase.
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The alphabetical style is wonderful, as I can pick a letter and go from there- she gives a damn good try. There's so much on the topic and contradictions from local views, that this fertile chaos isn't an easy topic to try to catalogue.
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This is a truly fun read. Truly encyclopedic. From the dark corners of fairy lore, such as the teind and the Cirein Croin, to the friendly hobs and leprechauns, this book has it all. This is a book to read, re-read, and then have another go at some other time still. Buying this book is money well spent if one has an interest in folklore of the Isles or is interested in some of the more obscure corners of religion.
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I was given The Encyclopedia of Faires as a gift at Yuletide in 1977 (that's how long I've been passionately pursuing all manner of writing and information on the Realm of Faery!) It's so long ago that being interested in this subject then was like being "in the closet" about the (real) faeries!! So it is high time I try to express the reverence in which I still hold this book. There are so many guides coming out any more that your library could be filled in no time, yet what would it be filled with? Not anything as authentic as what is between the pages of Brigg's Encyclopedia. Hers is not rehashed information, secondhand lore. There is a sort of "closeness to the source" about her information that lends it an unparalled authenticity.
Of course, she was British, and she was 78 years old in 1977 when the book came out, so she was closer in both place and time to the original information. We who are fascinated with the Realm owe this good woman and most competant folklorist a great debt of gratitude for what she brought forth for us to have in this book.
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