{"product_id":"magical-folk-british-and-irish-fairies-500-ad-to-the-present-9781783341023","title":"Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Gibson Square Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535530107223,"sku":"9781783341023","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783341023.jpg?v=1731898523","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/magical-folk-british-and-irish-fairies-500-ad-to-the-present-9781783341023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}