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Faerie Stories

Faerie Poems

Folklore Sources

• Fairy Stories and Anecdotes from all over the world.
• Fairy Ballads of English tradition
• The Secret Commonwealth by Kirk (1692)
• Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland by Crofton Croker (1827)
• The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley (1833)
• Ancient Legends of Ireland by Lady Wilde (1887)
• Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland by J.G. Campbell (1901)
• Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt (1901)
• Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats
• Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland, by Lady Gregory

Literary Sources

• The Lay of Sir Orfeo
• Thomas of Erceldoune (c. 1400)
• The Wyf of Bath's Tale
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare (c. 1595)
• Fairy References in English Literature
• The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare by Alfred Nutt (1900)
• Nymphidia, the Court of Fairy by Michael Drayton
• Oberon, the Fairy Prince by Ben Jonson
• The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (possibly also by Jonson)
• A Dissertation on Fairies (c. 1800)
• Phantastes (1858)
• Faery Poems through the ages.
• Guide to Faerie in Print by the editor of this page

Bibliography of works consulted.

Stith Thompson's list of fairy motifs.

Return to Earendil's Page

Plans for the Future.

"Bulldozers now level fairy raths and sweep away fairy trees, and the Good People appear to be unable to defend and preserve their homes. No farmer nowadays would allow some of the milk from his milking machine to run off on the ground as tribute for the fairies. Nobody ever applies to the fairies for permission and approval when he wishes to build a house. Fairy places and fairy passes are no longer treated with respect. All this is obvious to anyone who looks around at the Ireland of today."

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