Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia - Softcover

Rose, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393317927 ISBN 13: 9780393317923

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Synopsis

A fabulously entertaining work with over 100 delightful illustrations--Library Journal calls Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins its "favorite work of 1996."

In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various and, at the same time, strikingly similar from country to country. Wherever humans have lived, the supernatural beings have dwelt alongside us. People serve to explain the unexplainable--the strange disappearance of a traveler in a dark wood, that odd thumping in the attic, the fresh cream turned sour overnight. Often they reveal the stoic humor with which human societies have faced their difficulties. But whatever their source, our guilts, fears, dreams, or imaginations, the spirits have fascinated and enchanted us through the millennia. Chosen by Library Journal as a Best Reference Source.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Rose is a research member at the University of Kent and a senior lecturer at Canterbury College, England.

Review:

The variety of cultures represented is breathtaking. . . . Rose's encyclopedia will enrich reference collections in several thousand little ways. -- Rettig on Reference

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0393317927
• ISBN 13: 9780393317923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384