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  1. At the bottom of the garden
    a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things
    Author: Purkiss, Diane
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  New York Univ. Press, New York

    "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... more

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    "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.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0814766838
    Edition: 1. publ. in the U.S.A.
    Subjects: Contes de fées; Fées - Histoire; Fées dans la littérature; Geschichte; Fairies in art; Fairies in literature; Fairies; Fee; Mythologie; Geschichte; Kobold
    Scope: XII, 356 S., [4] Bl., Ill.