W Y Evans Wentz 1st Edition 1911 The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Hardcover

  
Published by Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press, London, UK. Ex-library item with library bookplates present to the front pastedown with spine label residue present to the spine. Bound in green cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks.

What are fairies, those romantic and sometimes mischievous little people-- pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all the other forms of the daoine sidhe (fairy people)? Folklorists say they are fragments of ancient religious beliefs; occultists call them nature spirits; the peasant tradition says they are fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved or bad enough to be lost. Evans-Wentz is best known as the author-translator of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", but his first love was this book, which presents a body of tradition and testimony about an elusive order of life that survives in the natural setting of wild and lonely places. He was not satisfied with merely formal study, but collected first-hand reports of fairies in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, and faced up to the key questions avoided by other folklorists.

Evans-Wentz, whose journeys led him from the haunts of fairyland to the wilderness of Tibet, opens a path for us to the luminous reality behind the traditions of folklore. W Y Evans Wentz 1st Edition 1911 The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Hardcover.

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1. Author: W Y Evans Wentz
2. Binding: Hardcover
3. Character Family: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
4. Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
5. Language: English
6. Original/Facsimile: Original
7. Personalized: No
8. Place of Publication: London
9. Publisher: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press
10. Region: Europe
11. Signed: No
12. Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Fairies in the Celtic Countries, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
13. Subject: Religion & Spirituality
14. Topic: Fairies in the Celtic Countries
15. Year Printed: 1911