Book cover of Kimberly J. Lau, Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024), courtesy Wayne State University Press Racial beliefs, the book suggests ...
Blending Irish folklore with the classic story of Sleeping Beauty, "Thornhedge" takes a familiar childhood tale and tosses it into the muddy bogs of the Fairie realm.
The origins of the Fairy King in old Celtic lore. Stories of fairies are prominent in Irish folklore, and the belief in a fairy hierarchy, or fairy royalty, has been a popular notion for centuries.
The fairies, with their reputation as tricksters ... according to Richard Mabey in his book, “Flora Britannica”. Author, poet and naturalist, Geoffrey Grigson, writing in the 1950s, posited ...