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"Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the Greek nymph Aba to the shy Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe"--
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Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion is a unique account of the living spirituality and mysticism of fairyfolk in Ireland. Fairyfolk are fairyminded people who have had direct experiences with the divine energy and appearance of fairies, and fairypeople, who additionally know that they have been reincarnated from the Fairy Realm. While fairies have been folklore, superstition, or fantasy for most children and adults, now for the first time in a scholarly ...
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"Close enough to touch with an outstretched hand or the mere lifting of an eyebrow lie the borders of a fabulous land. It was once familiar ground to all, a place where gods and humans lived together in profound communion. But new, golden fields of experience beckoned; the old was abandoned in a rush, lost sight of, and soon largely forgotten. Now people are beginning to feel bereft without it and are trying to find their way back again to that lost kingdom." --Marjorie SpockThe Middle Kingdom! Various times and peoples have given it different names. To some it was Paradise, to others Tir-nan-Og; Arthurian Avalon; Fairyland; the World of Immortal Youth; the Land of Heart's Desire. Where exactly is that country? Well, if God's is the world of creative power and ours the world of created objects, the fairy world is the land of life that lies between them, serv-ing as the bridge for their interaction.The fairyland and its denizens have long been the concern of poets, painters, and storytellers. Not only are these beings charged with the maintenance of Nature's household but with her evolutionary plans as well. Our recognition of them and their work helps their efforts prosper and helps the earth be carried forward in its evolution. Marjorie Spock draws aside the veil obscuring the life of the "Little People" and makes their magic world come alive for us.Included are color paintings of the four races of Little People: Gnomes (earth spirits); Undines (water spir-its); Sylphs (air spirits); and Fire-Spirits.Fairy Worlds and Workers is a delightful and engaging book for everyone!
Metaphysics --- Fairies --- Philosophy --- Social Science --- Social science
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By recapturing the nineteenth-century worlds of the super- and sub-human, and recontextualizing a forgotton obsession - this text enables twentieth-century readers to recover a legacy too precious to be lost.
Fairies. --- Folklore --- Literature and folklore --- English literature --- Folklore and literature --- Literature and folk-lore --- Folk-lore, English --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Social conditions
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What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say “troll”? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each case the author is not the least concerned with how the paranormal functions within medieval society and in the minds of the individuals who encounter and experience it and go on to narrate these experiences through intermediaries. The author connects the paranormal encounter closely with fears and these fears are intertwined with various aspects of the human experience, including gender, family ties, and death. The Troll Inside You hovers over the boundaries of scholarship and literature. Its aim is to prick and provoke but above all to challenge its audience to reconsider some of their preconceived ideas about the medieval past.
Norse religion & mythology --- Old Norse literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- Trolls. --- Trulls --- Fairies --- Icelandic and Old Norse literature --- Old Norse literature --- History and criticism. --- medieval mythology --- Iceland --- monster theory --- trolls --- Norse mythology
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Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of the main problems posed by the scholarly and artistic confrontation with the Otherworld, which not only fuelled the imagination, but also led to the ultimate redundancy of learned perceptions of that Otherworld as it was finally obfuscated by the clarity of an enlightened age. Contributors include: Henk Dragstra, John Flood, Julian Goodare, Tette Hofstra, Robert Maslen, Richard North, Karin E. Olsen, David J. Parkinson, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Helen Wilcox.
Fairies in literature. --- Literature --- Folklore. --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those
Garden ornaments and furniture. --- Follies (Architecture) --- Hermitages. --- Hermits. --- Gnomes. --- Fairies --- Anchorites --- Eremites --- Persons --- Hermitages --- Recluses --- Cells of hermits --- Hermits' cells --- Hermits --- Monasteries --- Follies --- Folly (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Pavilions --- Garden fixtures --- Decoration and ornament --- Garden structures --- Outdoor furniture
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Starting at an Alabama dairy farm, a child goes on an exploration through fields, forests, gardens, islands, and the sky as she learns about nature and fairies. Includes lessons for different grade levels.
Nature stories. --- Fairies --- Paranormal fiction. --- Imagination --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Occult fiction --- Occult stories --- Occultism --- Paranormal stories --- Parapsychology --- Supernatural --- Witchcraft --- Fiction --- Natural history --- Nature
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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Victorian Fairy Painting reveals the enormous popularity of the fairy world as depicted in Victorian English painting, literature, and the theatre.
mythologische figuren --- feeën --- Victoriaanse schilderkunst --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- Fairies in art --- Painting, British --- Painting, Victorian --- Exhibitions. --- Exhibitions --- CDL --- 75.035 --- Victorian painting --- Painting, Modern --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw.
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