Colum, Padraic (1920). The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter. New York: The MacMillan Company. Retrieved 24 November 2017. When it comes to accommodation in Scotland, there's a fantastic choice of amazing stays from luxury hotels to glamping getaways.

The Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI are small doors installed into local buildings. Local children believe these are the front doors of fairy houses, and in some cases, small furniture, dishes, and various other things can be seen beyond the doors. Too many Mary-Sue characters. The father is an uber successful author/screenwriter that can afford anything. His wife is a semi-famous actress that could retire early due to husband's wealth. The daughter has a trust fund in the millions, and her boyfriend is somehow also a great screenwriter in the making. Everything about these characters is just too perfect, they have everything going for them. In his 1691 treatise on the faeries of Aberfoyle, Scotland, the Reverend Robert Kirk suggested they represented a Secret Commonwealth, living in a parallel reality to ours, with a civilization and morals of their own, only visible to seers and clairvoyants. His assessment fits well with both folktale motifs, and some modern theories about their ancient origins and how they have permeated the collective human consciousness. So who are the faeries, where do they come from…and what do they want? Faerie-talesRaymond E. Feist (b. 1945) is one of the leading fantasy writers in the contemporary U.S. literary scene, best known for his massive Riftwar Saga series. Barb and I read the latter in the early 90s and liked it, although I've never reviewed it here and we never followed it up with any of the succeeding series. (I was inclined to think there was a limit to how many magical existential threats one kingdom in a fantasy world could realistically be expected to encounter in succession, and suspected that the severe case of "sequelitis" was mostly an attempt to milk the setting/characters for more cash.) That said, I did think the first series was involving and well-written, with lifelike characters who are engaging and a plot that's often emotionally compelling; it also didn't feel so dependent on Tolkien as Terry Brooks' Shannara series opener. Seán Ó Súilleabháin (Sean O’Sullivan). (1966). Folktales of Ireland, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Retrieved 06 November 2023 Written before there was such a term as 'urban fantasy', this book would fall into that category: beings of myth interacting with the modern world. It's my favorite genre, but is much better served by authors such as Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Emma Bull, and others of that ilk. Suskin, Steven (2008-09-07). "THE DVD SHELF: "Mad Men" Season One, and Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" ". Playbill.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-10 . Retrieved 2008-09-08.

According to some historians, such as Barthélemy d'Herbelot, fairies were adopted from and influenced by the peris of Persian mythology. [9] Peris were angelic beings that were mentioned in antiquity in pre-Islamic Persia as early as the Achaemenid Empire. Peris were later described in various Persian works in great detail such as the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi. A peri was illustrated to be fair, beautiful, and extravagant nature spirits that were supported by wings. This may have influenced migratory Germanic and Eurasian settlers into Europe, or been transmitted during early exchanges. [10] The similarities could also be attributed to a shared Proto-Indo-European mythology. [11]Warton, Thomas (2001). Spenser's Faerie Queene: Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser. pt. 1. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-21958-7. Masson, Elsie. (1929). Folk Tales of Brittany, Philadelphia: MaCrae, Smith & Company. Edited by Amen Pendleton Retrieved 7 November 2023

a b c d e f Croker, Thomas Crofton (1825). Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland vol. 1. London: John Murray. Retrieved 6 November 2017. Ronald Hutton, "The Making of the Early Modern British Fairy Tradition", Historical Journal 57(4), 1135–57 Yeats, W. B. (1988). "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry". A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore. Gramercy. p.1. ISBN 0-517-48904-X. Ok, first let me go ahead and say that this is a true "GoodReads-2-star-rating", that is "it was ok" and nothing else. because it is really ok - if you are into fantasy and in particular faeries and the whole "Celtic" mythology I would certainly recommend it. It's well written and well thought out.

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Tatar, Maria (2003) The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton University Press. p. 31 ISBN 0-691-06722-8. Hunt, Maurice. "Individuation in A Midsummer Night's Dream". South Central Review 3.2 (Summer 1986): 1–13. O'Faolain, Eileen (1954). Irish sagas and Folk Tales, London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 November 2017 . There is an outdated theory that fairy folklore evolved from folk memories of a prehistoric race: newcomers superseded a body of earlier human or humanoid peoples, and the memories of this defeated race developed into modern conceptions of fairies. Proponents find support in the tradition of cold iron as a charm against fairies, viewed as a cultural memory of invaders with iron weapons displacing peoples who had just stone, bone, wood, etc., at their disposal, and were easily defeated. 19th-century archaeologists uncovered underground rooms in the Orkney islands that resembled the Elfland described in Childe Rowland, [42] which lent additional support. In folklore, flint arrowheads from the Stone Age were attributed to the fairies as " elfshot", [43] while their green clothing and underground homes spoke to a need for camouflage and covert shelter from hostile humans, their magic a necessary skill for combating those with superior weaponry. In a Victorian tenet of evolution, mythic cannibalism among ogres was attributed to memories of more savage races, practising alongside "superior" races of more refined sensibilities. [44] Elementals

Le Fanu, Joseph, (February 5, 1870) The Child That Went with the Fairies, All the Year Round, pp. 228 –233. Retrieved 10 April 2018. Republished James, Montague Rhodes (ed.) (1923) Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg 8 May 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k Graves, Alfred Perceval. (1909), The Irish Fairy Book. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Retrieved 22 November 2017 The faeries appear in folklore from all over the world as metaphysical beings, who, given the right conditions, are able to interact with the physical world. They’re known by many names but there is a conformity to what they represent, and perhaps also to their origins. From the Huldufólk in Iceland to the Tuatha Dé Danann in Ireland, and the Manitou of Native Americans, these are apparently intelligent entities that live unseen beside us, until their occasional manifestations in this world become encoded into our cultures through folktales, anecdotes, and testimonies.a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Curtin, Jeremiah (1890). Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Retrieved 8 November 2017.