Magical Folk

British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present

Magical Folk
Simon Young, Ceri Houlbrook
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
22 Oct 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781783341023
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The phenomenal success of Tolkien and JK Rowling have restored magical folk to the adult world. The reader will discover that Hobbits hail from Tolkien' s aunt' s manor farm Bag-End and Harry Potter' s Master Dobbs is part of ancient folklore. Fairies are often nothing like the ones conjured up by writers and Hollywood. Some are worse than soccer hooligans. They are irascible, blood-sucking, bed-hopping. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish local newspapers and other local ephemera, and by the Fairy Census conducted by the authors.
' Enchanting. ' Mail on Sunday; ' Engaging and authoritative. . . British fairies, it turns out, are classic eccentrics. ' Sunday Telegraph; ' Detail on local mythology. . . sparkling. ' Literary Review; ' A big insight into the lives of little people. . . provocative. ' ; Glasgow Herald; ' A gazetteer of myths, legends, and sightings. ' Independent
Dr Simon Young (editor) is from Cumbria and a professor of history at the Umbra Institute, Florence. Ceri Houlbrook (editor) is a history and architecture lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781783341023
Published: 22 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Gibson Square Books
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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