Fairy Women from the Portuguese Book of Lineages of Count Dom Pedro by Jos Leito

Fairy Women from the Portuguese Book of Lineages of Count Dom Pedro by Jos Leito

Fairy women have long been seen as embodying rulership of the land. The Melusinian tradition of marrying a fairy woman to validate rulership occurred across western Europe, but the Portuguese tales of Lady Goat-Foot and Lady Marinha from the>Book of Lineages of Count Dom Pedro are particularly noteworthy. As these tales evolved over the centuries, they would demonstrate their longevity and power, cross-fertilising with grimoires, Quimbanda, and Cyprianic magic.
Rulership and politics go hand-in-hand, and the author demonstrates how noble fairy wives were seen at different times as a blessing and a curse. The fascinating history he details of the use of these tales is as curious and transgressive as their heroines, and shows how fact truly can be stranger than fiction, and that when these two blur, there is a liminal place of fairy and magic, where anything becomes possible.

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ISBN 13	9781915933652
ISBN 10	191593365X
Title	Fairy Women from the Portuguese Book of Lineages of Count Dom Pedro
Author	José Leitão
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hadean Press Limited
Year published	2024-09-26
Number of pages	86
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