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The Boggart Sourcebook
Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 …
The Boggart
Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The …
The Folklore of Cornwall
By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore studies internationally have long …
Paganism Persisting
Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people …
The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings
Fairies, elves, and other magical beings… they’re so much more than just children’s tales. For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these …
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England
What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close …
The Green Children of Woolpit
Two medieval chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, reported the mysterious appearance of a pair of ‘Green Children’—with green skins and speaking an unknown …