Magical Folk by Simon Young
The phenomenal success of Tolkien and JK Rowling have restored magical folk to the adult world. The reader will discover that Hobbits hail from Tolkien's aunt's manor farm Bag-End and Harry Potter's Master Dobbs is part of ancient folklore. Fairies are often nothing like the ones conjured up by writers and Hollywood. Some are worse than soccer hooligans. They are irascible, blood-sucking, bed-hopping. A tidal-wave of new fairy sightings has been uncovered by the digitisation of British and Irish local newspapers and other local ephemera, and by the Fairy Census conducted by the authors.
'Enchanting' Mail on Sunday; 'Engaging and authoritative... British fairies, it turns out, are classic eccentrics.' Sunday Telegraph; 'Detail on local mythology... sparkling.' Literary Review; 'A big insight into the lives of little people... provocative.'; Glasgow Herald; 'A gazetteer of myths, legends, and sightings.' Independent
Dr Simon Young (editor) is from Cumbria and a professor of history at the Umbra Institute, Florence. Ceri Houlbrook (editor) is a history and architecture lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783341023 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783341025 |
| Title | Magical Folk |
| Author | Simon Young |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gibson Square Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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