The Good People: New Fairylore EssaysPeter Narv ez University Press of Kentucky, 6. nov. 1997 - 530 sider " Whether called "the good people," "the little people," or simply "them," fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between. In many cultures, however, fairies are not just the stuff of distant legend or literature: they are real creatures with supernatural powers. The Good People presents nineteen essays that focus on the actual fairies of folklore -- fairies of past and living traditions who affected, and still affect, people's lives in myriad ways. |
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Regional Fairylore | 3 |
FrenchNewfoundland Culture Discourse and Belief | 5 |
Fairylore from the Midlands of Ireland | 22 |
Fairies and the Supernatural on Reachrai | 47 |
Fairylore in the Scottish Highlands 16901990 | 94 |
The Identity of the Good Neighbors in Orkney and Shetland | 116 |
Ballads of Otherworld Beings | 142 |
Memorates and Legends from Welsh Oral Tradition | 155 |
The Fairy Changeling as a Folk Articulation of Failure to Thrive in Infants and Children | 251 |
The Blast in Newfoundland Fairy Tradition | 284 |
The Social Functions of Fairylore | 299 |
Supernatural Aggression and Deviance Among the Irish Peasantry | 302 |
Maintaining Spatial Temporal and Moral Boundaries Through Legendry | 336 |
Fairylore and Popular Culture | 369 |
The End of a Legend | 371 |
Perspectives on Money and Magic | 406 |
Fairy Belief and Religion | 197 |
The Fairy Belief and Official Religion in Ireland | 199 |
Christianity and Fairylore in Connection with the Unclean Woman and the Unchristened Child | 215 |
Physical Disorders Changelings and the Blast | 225 |
Changelings Hybrids and the Solitary Fairy | 227 |
The Tooth Fairy in North American Folklore and Popular Culture | 426 |
Semantics and Epistemology | 455 |
Making Meaning Out of Thin Air | 457 |
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