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A modern fairy tale holly black6/5/2023 ![]() Some of my favorites are Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry edited by William Butler Yeats, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk, and The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Of particular use are the Child Ballads.įor primary sources and good secondary sources, there are a lot of great books downloadable from the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Tam Lin is there, along with many other fairy ballads. Ashliman’s page of changeling legends from the British islesĪlso really useful is this Traditional Ballad Index. And, as with all research, if you look at the primary sources noted in the backs of those books, you will find more material.įor a general outline of faerie society and a good starting place, Mika Loponen wrote an interesting paper that includes a discussion on the various names for faeries, general types of faeries, faerie gentry, and faerie mortality.Īnother good place to start would be D.L. ![]() ![]() I get asked a lot for information on faerie folklore, so here are some places to start. ![]()
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