highlights from the faerie census: britain and ireland
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Simong Young has just released the second volume of his Fairy Census, wherein he invites anyone from anywhere to recount any experience with something they would describe as a faerie. Young is a very good folklorist; his recent book on the Boggart attracted a lot of acclaim and was accompanied by a companion volume of collected boggart encounters from eyewitnesses and printed sources. (It makes appearance here, too, in story 547C). I’ve gone through the first sections of the Fairy Census, which contain stories from Britain and Ireland, and collected some of those I found most interesting below. It’s not limited to the Isles, though: there are over a hundred and fifty pages of stories from the US and Canada, a handful from Australia and New Zealand, and a few dozen from “the Rest of the World.”
highlights from the faerie census: britain and ireland
highlights from the faerie census: britain…
highlights from the faerie census: britain and ireland
Simong Young has just released the second volume of his Fairy Census, wherein he invites anyone from anywhere to recount any experience with something they would describe as a faerie. Young is a very good folklorist; his recent book on the Boggart attracted a lot of acclaim and was accompanied by a companion volume of collected boggart encounters from eyewitnesses and printed sources. (It makes appearance here, too, in story 547C). I’ve gone through the first sections of the Fairy Census, which contain stories from Britain and Ireland, and collected some of those I found most interesting below. It’s not limited to the Isles, though: there are over a hundred and fifty pages of stories from the US and Canada, a handful from Australia and New Zealand, and a few dozen from “the Rest of the World.”