The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2810262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J W Ashton, Katharine Mary Briggs |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 320 |
| Pages | 164 |
| Publication date | 1968-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/537668 |
| OpenAlex | W2073326511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds, to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author, Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies, and in this book she articulated for the first time the history of that world in tradition and literature. From every period and every country, poets and storytellers have described a magical world inhabited by elfin spirits. Capricious and vengeful, or beautiful and generous, they've held us in thrall for generations. And on a summer's morn, as the dew dries softly on the grass, if you kneel and look under a toadstool, well
Art · Literature · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Philosophy
Telling tales’
Melting in the Daylight
A Tale Of a Dog
State of the field
Legends and Landscape in the Nordic Countries
The Haudenosaunee Imagination and the Ecology of the Sacred
Ghosts , Fairies , Elves , and Nymphs
Nature's Invisibilia
The Science of Fairy Tales
A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927–1960
Filming Fairies
Fenrir’s Fetter and the Power of Stories
Three Notes on West Yorkshire Fairies in the Nineteenth Century
The Poetic and the Everyday
Towards the Demystification of Lawrence Lazy
Edmund Jones and the Pwcca'r Trwyn
The Weird Sisters Wandering”
The Generic Decorum of the Burlesque Kunstmärchen
The Rise of the English Poltergeist, c .1590– c. 1720
The Wild Hunt and the Witches' Sabbath
A Changeling Becomes Titania
From Wilderland to East End and Back Again
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2025 (53) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |