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Loading... The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countriesby W. Y. Evans-Wentz
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A good comprehensive study first published in 1911. chg1 | Nov 5, 2008 |   Originally published in 1911, it includes many 1st hand and FoaF accounts from older people, recounting common fairy related Celtic customs, experiences and stories from the 1800s and earlier. The 'evidence' is not well organised. The NewPage Publishers edition is also terrible- full of typos such as periods randomly placed in the middle of sentences, "bow" for "how", etc. I only got this edition so I wouldn't feel bad about writing in it, but its far more distracting than expected; I'm surprised a publisher would print something so poorly edited. (  )AGangi | Jul 4, 2008 | An exhaustive (and exhausting) study of folk belief in fairies in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany. I've never been able to slog my way through it all, but dipped in here and there. If you need the gory details, they are all here. It's recently been reprinted by Dover, making it easier to obtain. (  )aulsmith | Sep 1, 2007 | 0.051 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0806511605, Paperback)What are fairies, those romantic and sometimes mischievous little people-- pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all the other forms of the daoine sidhe (fairy people)? Are they real? Folklorists say they are fragments of ancient religious beliefs; occultists call them nature spirits; the peasant tradition says they are fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved or bad enough to be lost.Dr. Evans-Wentz is best known as the author-translator of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", but his first love was this book, which presents a body of tradition and testimony about an elusive order of life that survives in the natural setting of wild and lonely places. He was not satisfied with merely formal study, but collected first-hand reports of fairies in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, and faced up to the key questions avoided by other folklorists. Dr. Evans-Wentz, whose journeys led him from the haunts of fairyland to the wilderness of Tibet, opens a path for us to the luminous reality behind the traditions of folklore. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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