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The Nature of the British Fairies of Medieval and Folk Literature an Annotated Bibliography 1900-1983 Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 8-1985 The Nature of the British Fairies of Medieval and Folk Literature an Annotated Bibliography 1900-1983 Constance Reik Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Folklore Commons Recommended Citation Reik, Constance, "The Nature of the British Fairies of Medieval and Folk Literature an Annotated Bibliography 1900-1983" (1985). Master's Theses. 1388. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1388 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NATURE OF THE BRITISH FAIRIES OF MEDIEVAL AND FOLK LITERATURE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900-1983 by Constance Reik A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Medieval Institute Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan August 1985 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE NATURE OF THE BRITISH FAIRIES OF MEDIEVAL AND FOLK LITERATURE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900-1983 Constance Reik, M.A. Western Michigan University, 1985 This thesis f i l l s the need for a bibliography of works on the British fairies. It is essentially an annotated bibliography with an introduction which will help illuminate the fairies of the ancient and medieval literature (through Shakespeare) and the folk literature of Britain. The annotations are extensive and are both descriptive and evaluative. The bibliography includes publications written in English, from 1900 to 1983, which describe and discuss the characteristics and origins of the British fairies. It is divided into seven chapters: Literary Fairies, British Fairies, English Fairies, Welsh and Manx Fairies, Scottish Fairies, Irish Fairies, and Origins of Fairies. The major parts of the introduction are Area of Coverage and Statement of Purpose, Evolution of Study, Methodology, Problems en­ countered, and The Fairies in Literature in medieval, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. A list of major works of the nineteenth century fairy folklorists is included. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to dedicate this thesis to the memory of Leo Natanson, reference librarian, colleague, and good friend. I would also like to express my appreciation for the support and special assistance given me throughout this project. First, I would like especially to thank the members of the Reference Departments of Western Michigan University and The University of New Hampshire, and others in these libraries, for the support they have given me through­ out this project. Thanks also goes to the Interlibrary Loan Depart­ ments of both libraries for obtaining the material needed to complete this project. Special thanks go to my advisor, Larry Syndergaard, for guidance and support, to Tim O'Connor for special assistance in teaching me the techiques of using a word processer and designing the special programs for printing this thesis, and to Gordon Eriksen for assistance in editing this thesis. Constance Reik Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. 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Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 1326187 Reik, Constance THE NATURE OF THE BRITISH FAIRIES OF MEDIEVAL AND FOLK LITERATURE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1900-1983 Western Michigan University M.A. 1985 University Microfilms International300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 Copyright 1985 by Reik, Constance All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Copyright- hy Constance Reik 1985 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . ....................... ......................... ii CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . 1 Area of Coverage and Statement of Purpose ....... 1 Evolution of Study .................. .... ................... ..... 2 Limitations in Coverage . ..................... ^ Methodology ...... ....................... ........... 5 Compilation ....... ...................... ......... 5 Annotations and Evaluations .............. 7 Problems . ...............................• « • . • • . < • • • • • • 8 The Fairies in Literature ................ 9 Medieval . .................. • • • • • • . • .... • 10 Sixteenth Century . 12 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . 13 Nineteenth Century .................. 14 Major Works of Nineteenth Century Fairy Folklorists . 16 II. LITERARY FAIRIES ......... ................... ....... 19 III. BRITISH FAIRIES . ........................................ 27 IV. ENGLISH F A IR IE S ......................... ........................ 51 V. WELSH AND MANX FAIRIES ..................... 60 VI. SCOTTISH FAIRIES ....................... 65 VII. IRISH FAIRIES ........................... 75 VIII. ORIGINS OF FAIRIES ....... ....................... 89 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Table of Contents-continued AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX TO THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. ..... 96 BIBLIOGRAPHY . ...................... 103 iv Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The fairies of Celtic and British traditions have fascinated mankind down through the ages. F airies play e sp ec ially important roles in the medieval and older folk literature of the British Isles, and they have continued to be important to both the literary and folk imagination right up to the present. Area of Coverage and Statement of Purpose As no one else has endeavored to do so, I have compiled and annotated a bibliography of books, chapters of books, essays, and journal a r tic le s , published in English from 1900 to 1983, that de­ scribe and discuss the characteristics and origins of the fairies of the ancient and medieval literature of Britain (through Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) and British folk literature. For the pur­ pose of this study, British fairies are def ined as being those of England, Wales, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Ireland. The fairies described in these publications can be divided into four groups (based on W. B. Yeats' and K. M. Brigg-s' classifications): trooping fairies, including aristocratic and heroic fairies; solitary, domestic, and tutelary or guardian fairies, including Puck and brownies; water spirits and nature fairies, including mermaids; and giants, monsters and hags. By Shakespeare's time most of the water s p irits and nature fa irie s had been "assim ilated" by the trooping 1 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. fairies.* The trooping fairies appear most often in the chroniclers' stories and the romances for the higher social classes, and the
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