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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements & Editors' Note 6
We Need to Talk about Fairies 7
Fairy Tribes
Biographies
English Fairies
1 Fairy Queens and Pharisees
2 Pucks and Lights
3 Pixies and Pixy Rocks
4 Fairy Magic and the Cottingley Photographs
5 Fairy Barrows and Cunning Folk
6 Fairy Holes and Fairy Butter
Celtic and Norse Fairies
7 The Sidhe and Fairy Forts
8 The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
9 Trows and Trowie Wives
Orkney and Shetland by Laura Coulson
10 The Fair Folk and Enchanters
Wales by Richard Suggett
11 Pouques and the Faiteaux
12 George Waldron and the Good People
13 Piskies and Knockers
Travelling Fairies
14 Puritans and Pukwudgies
15 Fairy Bread and Fairy Squalls
16 Banshees and Changelings
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