Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-348) and index.
Contents
Ancient worlds -- Medieval dreams -- Birth and death : fairies in Scottish witch-trials -- Desire of gold and the good neighbours : the uses of fairies -- The fairy goes literary : Puck and others -- Into the Enlightenment -- Victorian fairies -- Tinker Bell's magic and the fairies' call to war -- Photographing fairies, and a Celtic revival -- Fairy bubbles and alien abductions.
