Perilous Enchantment The True History of Faeries

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Title: Perilous Enchantment The True History of Faeries
Author: Sarah Clegg
Category: Social Science, European General, History, World History, Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical
Language: English | 376 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781803512853


Description:
A compendium of fairies and fairy lore through the centuries, told through a magical year in search of the fae from the author of the "remarkable" (Literary Review) Woman's Lore.
Fairy stories and fae lore are ancient-yet fairy stories continue to transform and enthrall our imaginations generation after generation. From Tolkien's elves to Sarah J. Maas's high fae, storytellers have reinterpreted the same set of traditions and texts over and over again.

Perilous Enchantment presents a definitive new cultural history of the fairy, from ancient times to now, across Europe and North America. By visiting a different fairy site each month-including fairy hills in Yorkshire, to a nymph's cave in Delphi, to a contemporary fairy ball in Los Angeles-Cambridge PhD and folkloristSarah Clegg illuminates all the facets of the elusive, capricious figure.

Clegg shows us how shifts in culture, technology, and avenues of...