Publisher: Pantheon Copyright: 1978 Publication date: 1978 In print. Order from Amazon Books

Cover Blurbs:

"If myths are both the food and fruit of the imagination, then Katharine Brigs has prepared a banquet...There seems to be no end to the information in this enchanted almanac." -- New York Times book Review

"An Encyclopedia offers a supernatural host of legends, ballads, and folk tales--and more than enough hobgoblins and dragons to fill minds little and large. The entries are informative and scholarly witihout being stuffy. A good thing, too. Fairies like to play tricks on the serious." -- Time Magazine

"What Briggs has done is to recover fairies from the nursery (and to a degree from formal literature and painting as well) and restore them to their diversity, complexity and astonishingly subtle relationship with mortal men and women...These stories are designed to awaken consciousness." -- Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

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