Worse than Pagans
Tom Shippey: The Church v. the Fairies, 1 December 2016
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
by Richard Firth Green.
Pennsylvania, 285 pp., £36, August 2016,978 0 8122 4843 2 Show More
by Richard Firth Green.
Pennsylvania, 285 pp., £36, August 2016,
“... of 1835). The desire for one was certainly there. Beating Grimm very slightly to the punch, Thomas Keightley brought out his Fairy Mythology in 1828; Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, which appeared nearly a century later, had a similar aim. Since then, books and articles about the ‘fairy faith’ have continued to appear. But ... ”