Fairies and Fairy Stories

Cover Art for 9780752440736, Fairies and Fairy Stories by Diane Purkiss
ISBN: 9780752440736
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Published: 30 September, 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Links Australian Libraries (Trove)

Whether on top of the Christmas tree, at the bottom of the garden, or in school plays, today fairies�are considered�sweet, dainty creatures with wands and butterfly wings. But, as Diane Purkiss shows, they have far more wicked origins as troublemakers, child snatchers, seducers, and changelings, representing�society's deepest fears and desires regarding birth, sex, and death. From these dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore to the sanitized "wingy thingies" of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this is a�riveting�chronicle of�the need to believe in fairies.�

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