Table of Contents

Acknowledgements & Editors' Note 6
We Need to Talk about Fairies 7
Fairy Tribes
Biographies
English Fairies
1 Fairy Queens and Pharisees
2 Pucks and Lights
3 Pixies and Pixy Rocks
4 Fairy Magic and the Cottingley Photographs
5 Fairy Barrows and Cunning Folk
6 Fairy Holes and Fairy Butter
Celtic and Norse Fairies
7 The Sidhe and Fairy Forts
8 The Seelie and Unseelie Courts
9 Trows and Trowie Wives
Orkney and Shetland by Laura Coulson
10 The Fair Folk and Enchanters
Wales by Richard Suggett
11 Pouques and the Faiteaux
12 George Waldron and the Good People
13 Piskies and Knockers
Travelling Fairies
14 Puritans and Pukwudgies
15 Fairy Bread and Fairy Squalls
16 Banshees and Changelings
Notes

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'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