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 A Dictionary of Fairies - Katharine Briggs
Description: ISBN 0140176586 / Author: Katharine Briggs / Genre: Encyclopedias / Reference / Known in the US as An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Newest Review: ... provides what is both an academically astute and well-researched, but also, entertaining dictionary. This book is ... more  ... illustrated, and the entries range from short descriptions to longer ones which incorporate stories and legends, and a complete version of the Scottish Ballad of Tam Lin. Because of the dictionary form, it is a very easy book to dip in and out of, and not a book to read straight through, from cover to cover. It never fails to furnish me with surprises or amusing new 'happenings'. It is a mixture of folklore and fantasy, there being entries covering Herne the Hunter, Morgan Le Fey and the Lady of the Lake, but also...more |
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Format: Hardback, ISBN: 9780684869575
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A Dictionary of Fairies - Katharine Briggs: Cornucopia of Kelpies! (285 words)
by vhart - written on 30/12/00 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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Want to know your Ferrishyn from your Gwyllions? This is the book then.. It is a dictionary of fairies, unsurprisingly, as that it what it is imaginatively named! Listing all fairy types, folk tales, literary references of these 'extra' inhabitants of the British Isles (because she does concentrate almost exclusively on Celtic/Anglo-Saxon mythology and folklore), Briggs provides what is both an academically astute and well-researched, but also, entertaining dictionary. This book is illustrated, and the entries range from short descriptions to longer ones which incorporate stories and legends, and a complete version of the Scottish Ballad of ...
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