Description: 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. 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. "If myths are both the food and fruit of the imagination, then Katharine Briggs has prepared a banquet.... There seems to be no end to the information in this enchanted almanac."-- New York Times Book Review "An Encyclopedia offers a supernatural host of legends, ballads, folk tales -- and more than enough hobgoblins and dragons to fill minds little or large. The entries are informative and scholarly without being stuffy. A good thing, too. Fairies like to play tricks on the serious." -- Time Magazine "What Briggs has done is to recover fairies from the nursery (and to a degree from formal literature and painting as well) and restore to them their diversity, complexity, and astonishingly subtle relationship with mortal men and women.... These stories are designed to awaken consciousness." -- Newsweek
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Book Title: Encyclopedia of Fairies : Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length: 9.1 in
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1976
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Non-Classifiable, Juvenile Nonfiction
Topic: Body, Mind & Spirit, Halloween, Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Item Weight: 24.4 Oz
Item Width: 5.9 in
Number of Pages: 481 Pages
