Fairies

Author: Richard Sugg
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
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.

Fairies:

Author: Morgan Daimler
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782796967
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
The subject of fairies in Celtic cultures is a complex one that seems to endlessly intrigue people. What exactly are fairies? What can they do? How can we interact with them? Answering these questions becomes even harder in a world that is disconnected from the traditional folklore and flooded with modern sources that are often vastly at odds with the older beliefs. This book aims to present readers with a straightforward guide to the older fairy beliefs, covering everything from Fairyland itself to details about the beings within it. The Otherworld is full of dangers and blessings, and this guidebook will help you navigate a safe course among the Good People.

Mischievous Familiars For Cordial Fairies

Author: Laura Greenwood
Publisher: Drowlgon Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
A mischievous corgi, a fairy who just wants to help, and a dryad who doesn't want to put up with any of it. When Posey wakes up to flowers covering her room, she knows she needs to find an outlet for her fairy magic and finds herself drawn to Obscure Academy's FlowerSoc where she meets a dryad who doesn't seem to have any patience for fairies. The main thing that Cedric knows is how to grow flowers, and the last thing he wants is for the new fairy suddenly telling him what he's doing wrong, and worse, using magic to help her grow flowers. When Posey's mischievous corgi ruins Cedric's display, the two of them have to work together in order to restore it - but can they manage to find a way for their methods to work in tandem? - Mischievous Familiars For Cordial Fairies is a light-hearted fairy & dryad academy m/f romance set at Obscure Academy. It features a corgi with a penchant for trouble, a fairy who needs an outlet for her magic, and a dryad who isn't all that pleased about any of it. If you enjoy upbeat and light-hearted paranormal romances with new adult characters, an academy/university setting, guaranteed happy endings, and quirky supernaturals, start the Obscure Academy today!

An Encyclopedia of Swearing

Author: Geoffrey Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance "flyting" and modern "sounding" or "playing the dozens." Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos.

Pagan Portals - Fairy Queens

Author: Morgan Daimler
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785358421
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Mysterious and intriguing, the Queens of Fairy have been intertwined with mortal lives and imaginations for as long as we have had myth and folklore. Goddesses to some, fictional characters to others, these powerful Queens are bound up in the history of witchcraft and still have a role to play today. This book takes a look at who the Fairy Queens are, explores some of their individual stories, and considers how we can still connect to them and honor them in the world today.

Elbert's Bad Word

Author: Audrey Wood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152013677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
After shocking the elegant garden party by using a bad word, Elbert learns some acceptable substitutes from a helpful wizard.

Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology

Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786471115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.

Fairies in Medieval Romance

Author: J. Wade
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230119158
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.

Strange and Secret Peoples : Fairies and Victorian Consciousness

Author: Stern College for Women Carole G. Silver Professor of English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198028466
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
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.

Fairy Lore

Author: D. L. Ashliman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313042004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Fairy lore concerns beliefs about elves, dwarfs, gnomes, trolls, mermaids, brownies, pixies, leprechauns, and many other beings found in world folklore. Written for students and general readers, this book is an introduction to fairy lore from around the world. The handbook defines and classifies types of fairies, provides numerous examples and texts, overviews scholarship, and discusses the role of fairies in art, film, and popular culture. It closes with a glossary and a bibliography of print and electronic resources.