At the bottom of the garden: a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things

"At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society." "Dianne Purkiss explains in this engrossing his...

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1. Verfasser: Purkiss, Diane (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York Univ. Press 2000
Ausgabe:1. publ. in the U.S.A.
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Zusammenfassung:"At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society." "Dianne Purkiss explains in this engrossing history that ancient fairies were born of fear: fear of the dark, of death, and of other great rites of passage, birth and sex. To understand the importance of these early fairies to pre-industrial peoples, we need to recover that sense of dread."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XII, 356 S., [4] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:0814766838

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