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This section is primarily for books about faery lore, although some of the references also
contain stories. Most of the references are only about faeries, or have large sections about
faeries. I have not included any references with only a small amount of faery information, but
I may add some in the future.
I have attempted to categorize these books to make it easier to find what you're looking for. However, some of the books may fit more than one category. Books that don't seem to fit anywhere, or which I don't know enough about to categorize yet, are listed at the end.
General Reference
Anderson, Otto.
"Seal Folk in East and West: Some Comments on a Fascinating Group of Folk Tales." in Folklore International: Essays in Traditional Literature, Belief, and Custom in Honor of Wayland Debs Hand. Ed. D.K. Wilgus. Halboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1967. 1-6.
Arrowsmith, Nancy (with George Moorse).
A Field Guide to the Little People. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1977.
[Bibliography, Footnotes and Index. 296 pages. Illustrated.]
Bord, Janet.
Fairies: Real Encounters with Little People. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1997.
[This was reprinted more recently in paperback.]
Dubois, Pierre.
The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries. Illustrated by Claudine and Roland Sabatier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
[Originally published in French as La Grande Encyclopédie des Fées by Éditions Hoëbeke, Paris, 1996.]
Evans, Hilary.
"Masters of Disguise." The Unexplained vol.10, issue 109, pp. 2161-2165.
Fairies and Elves from the Enchanted World
series; Alexandria,VA: Time-Life Books, 1986?
Hartland, Edwin Sidney.
The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology. 1891. Detroit: Singing Tree, 1968.
Marshall, Howard Wight.
"'Tom Tit Tot': A Comparative Essay on Aarne-Thompson Type 500--The Name of the Helper." Folklore 84.1(1973): 51-57.
Narvaez, Peter (ed)
The Good People: New Fairylore Essays New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 1997.
Narvaez, Peter
"The Fairy Faith." Ideas. Writ. and Narr. Peter Narvaez. CBC Radio. 29 June 1989.
Porteous, Alexander.
Forest Folklore.
[More recently reprinted under a different title.]
Rose, Carol.
Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People. Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1996.
[The paperback seems to have been retitled Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins]
Williams, Noel.
"The Semantics of the Word Fairy: Making Meaning out of Thin Air." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 457-478.
Celtic and English
Bourke, Angela
The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story. New York, London, etc:
Penguin, 1999.
Breatnach, Deasun.
"The Puca: A Multi-Functional Irish Supernatural Entity." Folklore 104 (1993): 105-110.
Briggs, Katharine.
The Personnel of Fairyland: A Short Account of the Fairy People
of Great Britain for those who tell Stories to Children. Oxford: Alden
Press, 1953.
[Reprinted by Singing Tree Press (Detroit) in 1971. Library of Congress
Catalog Card Number 70-1471084.]
"The English Fairies." Folklore
68 (1957):270-287.
"Some Late Accounts of the Fairies." Folklore 72 (1961):509-519.
A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies,
Bogies and Other Supernatural Creatures. London[?]: Allen Lane, 1976.
[Reprinted by Penguin (London, New York, Victoria, Toronto, Aukland) in
1977; should still be in print. Bibliography and index of types and motifs.
481 pages. Illustrated.]
The Vanishing People: A Study of Traditional Fairy
Beliefs. London: Batsford, 1978.
"Some Unpleasant Characters among British Fairies." in Folklore Studies in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference of the Folklore Society. Ed. Venetia J. Newall. Woodbridge: Rowman and Littlefield and Totowa, NJ: D.S. Brewer, 1980. 143-146.
Campbell, John Gregorson.
Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1900.
[See chapters 1-5.]
Evans-Wentz, W.Y.
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Oxford: University Books, 1911.
[This book has been reprinted several times.]
"Fairy Annals of Ulster." Ulster Journal of Archaeolgy vii: 131-143.
"Fairy Superstition." Ulster Journal of Archaeology vii: 73-73.
Gwyndaf, Robin.
"Fairylore: Memorates and Legends from Welsh Oral Tradition." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 155-195.
Haining, Peter.
The Leprechaun's Kingdom. London(?): Souvenir Press, Ltd, 1979.
[Reprinted in 1980 by Harmony Books (New York). No bibliography, but illustrations
and stories are referenced. ISBN 0-517-540797 (HC), 0-517-540800 (PB).
128 pages. Heavily Illustrated (black and white).]
Harris, Paul.
"The Green Children of Woolpit." Fortean Times 57, Spring 1991, pp. 39, 41.
Harte, Jeremy.
"Hollow Hills." At the Edge 5 (1997). [Available online here.]
Explore Fairy Traditions. Wymeswold: Heart of Albion Press, 2004.
[ISBN 1 872883 61 3. 171 pages. Bibliography. Index.]
Henderson, William.
Notes on the Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1866.
[Reprinted in 1973, Wakefield: E.P. Publishing. See chapter VII: Local Sprites. ]
Hore, Herbert.
"Origin of the Irish Superstition Regarding Banshees and Fairies." Journal R.S.A. Ireland vol.5, 5th series, 115-129.
Horn, Darwin.
"Tiddy Mun's Curse and the Ecological Consequences of Land Reclamation." Folklore 98:1 (1987): 11-15.
Jenkins, Richard P.
"Witches and Fairies: Supernatural Aggression and Deviance Among the Irish Peasantry." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 302-335.
Kirk, Robert
The Secret Commonwealth. 1815.
[This book has been published many times, with slightly different titles.
It was actually written much earlier than it was published (ca.1692). A
recent reprint was in 1976 by The Folklore Society, London. There was also
an 1815 edition with commentary by Andrew Lang, of the Coloured Fairy
books fame.]
Logan, Patrick
The Old Gods: The Facts About Irish Fairies Belfast: Appletree
Press, 1981.
Lysaght, Patricia.
The Banshee: The Irish Supernatural Death-Messenger. Dublin: Glendale Press, 1986.
MacManus: D.A.
The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland. London: Max Parrish, 1959.
[Published in the United States as Irish Earth Folk, with a slightly different chapter order.]
Mahon, Michael P.
Ireland's Fairy Lore. Boston: Thomas J. Flynn, 1919.
Menefee, S.P.
"A Cake in the Furrow." Folklore 91.2 (1980): 173-192.
Menefee, S.P., and Lotte Motz.
"AFurther Note on A Cake in the Furrow." Folklore 93.2(1982): 220-222.
O Giollain, Diarmuid.
"The Leipreachan and Fairies, Dwarfs and the Household Familiar: A Comparative Study." Bealoideas 52(1984): 75-150.
"The Fairy Belief and Official Religion in Ireland." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 199-214.
O Healai, Padraig.
"The Priest in Irish Fairy Legends." Folk narrative and World View. Hrsg. Leander Petzolt. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York, Paris and Wien: Peter Lang, 1996. 609-621.
Patterson, W.H..
"Irish Fairies." Belfast Naturalist Field Club series 2, vol.iii, 573-583.
Rabuzzi, Daniel Allen.
"In Pursuit of Norfolk's Hyter Sprites." Folklore 95.1(1984): 74-89.
Sanderson, S.F.
"A Prospect of Fairyland." Folklore 75(1964):1-18.
Sikes, Wirt
?date British Goblins.
Smith, Linda-May.
"Aspects of Contemporary Ulster Fairy Tradition." in Folklore Studies in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference of the Folklore Society. Ed. Venetia J. Newall. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer and Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. 398-404.
Spence, Lewis
British Fairy Origins London: Rider and Company, 1948.
[Also published in 1979 by Watts (London).]
Stewart, W. Grant.
The Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and London: Hurst, Robinson, 1823.
[See Part II: Fairies, Part III: Brownies, Part IV: Water Kelpies and Part V: Spunkies.]
Vickery, Roy.
"Lemna minor and Jenny Greenteeth" Folklore 94.2(1983): 247-251.
"Linnaeus and the Changeling." Folklore 99.2(1988): 250.
Wentz, W.Y. Evans
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Rennes, 1909.
[Reprinted in 1966 by University books (New Hyde Park, NY)]
White, Carolyn.
A History of Irish Fairies. Cork and Dublin: Mercier Press, 1976.
[Reprinted frequently, I believe.]
Williamson, ?.
The Broonie, Silkies and Fairies.
Winberry, John J.
"The Elusive Elf: Some Thoughts on the Nature and Origin of the Irish Leprechaun." Folklore 87.1(1976): 63-75.
Windling, Terri
"The Green Guardian and the Lore of the Woods." Realms
of Fantasy 1, October 1994.
"Brian Froud's Enchanting Realms: The Woman
of Faery." Realms of Fantasy 1, October 1994.
"Fantasy Literature and Folk Music Have their
Roots in Old Celtic Ballads." Realms of Fantasy 2, December
1994.
"The Magical Legends of the 'Enchanted Land'
of Wales." Realms of Fantasy 7, December 1995.
"Merlin and Melusine: Legends from the Breton
Coast of France." Realms of Fantasy, April 1996.
"Hounds, Hares and Standing Stones: The Lore
of England's West Country." Realms of Fantasy, June 1996.
[All of Windling's "Folkroots" columns from Realms of Fantasy
are well worth reading. I recommend tracking down back issues, and getting
hold of new ones].
Wood, Juliette.
"The Fairy Bride Legend in Wales." Folklore 103.1 (1992): 56-72.
Wood-Martin, W.G.
Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. 2 vols.
[See volume II, Chapter 1: Fairy Lore.]
Germanic/Scandinavian
Bruford, Alan.
"Trolls, Hillfolk, Finns, and Picts: The Identity of the Good Neighbors in Orkney and Shetland." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington, UP Kentucky, 1997. 116-141.
Erixon, Sigurd.
"Some Examples of Popular Conceptions of Sprites and other Elementals in Sweden during the 19th Century." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 34-37.
Hultkrantz, Ake (ed).
The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961.
Jolly, Karen Louise.
Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
[This book is really more about popular religion than elves.]
Kock, Gosta.
"A Few Reflections Concerning the Heilbringer and the Guardian of the Animals." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 65-71.
Motz, Lotte.
"Of Elves and Dwarfs." Arv 29-30(1973-74): 93-127.
"The Craftsman in the Mound." Folklore 88.1(1977): 46-60.
Puhvel, Martin.
"The Mighty She-Trolls of Icelandic Saga." Folklore 98.2 (1987):175-179.
Rooth, Anna Birgitta.
"The Conception of 'Rulers' in the South of Sweden." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 112-122.
Selberg, Torunn.
"Male and Female in the Narrative Tradition of Fairies." Arv 52(1996): 99-106.
Other Old World
Biezais, H.
"The Latvian Forest Spirit." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 15-18.
Diehl, C.G.
"Aranyani and Katukilal: Some Notes on the Goddess of Forests in India." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 19-24.
Pettersson, Olof.
"The Spirits of the Woods: Outlines of a Study of the Ideas about Forest Guardians in African Mythology and Folklore." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 101-111.
North American and New World
Butler, Gary.
"The Lutin Tradition in French-Newfoundland Culture: Discourse and Belief." in The good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 5-21.
Hand, Wayland.
"European Fairy Lore in the New World." Folklore 92.2(1981):141-148.
Hultkrantz, Ake.
"The Owner of the Animals in the Religion of the North American Indians." in The Supernatural Owners of Nature. Stockholm, Goteborg and Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1961. 53-64.
Narvaez, Peter.
"Newfoundland Berry Pickers 'In the Fairies': Maintaining Spatial, Temporal, and Moral Boundaries through Legendry." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 336-367.
Rieti, Barbara.
Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland. St. John's:
ISER, 1991.
Roth, John E.
American Elves: An Encyclopedia of Little People from the Lore of 380 Ethnic Groups of the Western Hemisphere. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 1997.
Shakespearean, Victorian and Other Literary
Bell, William
Shakespeare's Puck, and his Folkslore: Illustrated from the
Superstitions of all Nations. 1852.
[Reprinted on microfiche in 1985 by University Microfilms International
(Ann Arbor).]
Briggs, Katharine.
The Anatomy of Puck. 1959.
The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature.
London: Bellew Publishing, 1967.
Duffy, Maureen.
The Erotic World of Faery. London: Hodder and Stoughton
Ltd., 1972.
[Reprinted in 1980 by The Hearst Corporation [U.S.A.] and in 1989 by Sphere
Books [Cardinal Imprint; London]. ISBN 0 7474 0545 X. Index and bibliography.
401 pages. Plates.]
Latham, Minor White
Elizabethan Fairies: The Fairies of Folklore and the Fairies
of Shakespeare New York: Octagon Books, 1972.
[Originally published in 1930.]
Murphy, Clara J.
"The Use of Fairy Lore in Margaret Duley's novel Cold Pastoral." Culture and Tradition 7(1983): 106-119.
Nutt, Alfred Trubner
The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare New York: AMS Press, 1972.
[Originally published in 1900.]
Packer, Alison; Stella Beddoe, and Lianne Jarrett
Fairies in Legend and the Arts. 1980
Paton, Lucy Allen
Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance/ Fairy
Mythology of Arthurian Romance New York: B. Franklin, 1960.
Rathborne, Isabel Elisabeth
The Meaning of Spenser's Fairyland New York: Russell &
Russell, 1965.
Stableford, Brian.
"The Mythology of Faerie." in Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature vol.5. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983.
Watson, Jeanie.
Risking Enchantment: Coleridge's Symbolic World of Faery. Lincoln,
Nebraska: University of Nebraska, 1990.
Wiccan and Neo-Pagan
Anderson, Cora.
50 Years in the Feri Tradition.
Andrews, Ted.
Enchantment of the Faerie Realm: Communicate with Nature Spirits and Elementals. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993.
Holiday, Ted and Colin Wilson.
The Goblin Universe. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1986.
Katlyn.
To Summon the Faery: Traditions and Origins of the Ancient Fairy Faith. Las Vegas: Mermade Magickal Arts, 1989.
Faery Call. Las Vegas: Mermade Magickal Arts, 1997.
[I will soon have a review of this book available; check back.]
McCoy, Edain.
A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1994.
Moura, Ann.
Green Witchcraft: Folk magic, Fairy Lore and Herb Craft. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1996.
Mynne, Hugh.
The Faerie Way. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1996.
Stepanich, Kisma K.
Faery Wicca, Book One: Theory and Magick: A Book of Shadows and Light. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1994.
[Followed by book two. I will add the info soon.]
Stewart, R.J.
The Living World of Faery. Glastonbury: Gothic Image, 1995.
Earthlight.
Power Within the Land.
Wolfe, Amber.
Elemental Power: Celtic Faerie Craft and Druidic Magic. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1996.
New Age
Findhorn Community, The
The Findhorn Garden. New York, Evanston, San Francisco and London: Harper and Row, 1975.
Kelly, Penny.
The Elves of Lily Hill Farm: A Partnership with Nature. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1997.
O'Rush, Claire.
The Enchanted Garden: Discovering and Enchancing the Magical Healing Properties in your Garden. North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square, 1996.
Theosophist and Cottingley Photographs
Chambers, P.
"At last I know the truth about Tinkerbell." Daily Express 24 May 1965.
Clapham, Walter.
"There were fairies at the bottom of the garden." Woman 25 Oct 1975.
Cooper, Joe.
"The Case of the Cottingley Fairies." Unexplained no.20, Jan/Feb 1981.
"The Reappearance of the Fairies." Unexplained no.21, Jan/Feb 1981.
"The Cottingley Fairies Revisited." Unexplained no. 22, Jan/Feb 1981.
"Cottingley: At Last the Truth." Unexplained no. 117, Jan 1983.
[The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time vol.10, issue 117, pages 2338-2340.
The Case of the Cottingley Fairies. Robert Hale Limited, 1990.
[reprinted in paperback in 1997; London, Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Toronto: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-01026-3.]
Crawley, Geoffrey.
"That Astonishing Affair of the Cottingley Fairies." British Journal of Photography Dec 1982, April 1983, May 1985 and July 1986.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
no title?? Strand December 1920, pp.463-468.
no title?? Strand March 1921, pp. 199-206.
"The Cottingley Fairies: An Epilogue." Strand February 1923.
The Coming of the Fairies. New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1921.
[Reprinted in 1979.]
Gardner, E.L.
Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel. London:
The Theosophical Publishing House, 1945.
[This book was also called Fairies: A Book of Real Fairies and was recently reprinted under a slightly different title].
"Elementals." Prediction October 1947.
Gardner, Leslie.
"Notes on Mr. S.F. Sanderson's Presidential Address, 21 March 1973, on 'The Cottingley Fairy Photographs'." Folklore 86.3 (1975):190-194.
Gettings, Fred.
"Once Upon a Time..." Unexplained 116, December 1982.
[The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time vol.10, issue 116, pages 2318-2320.]
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen.
"Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1858-1930)." The Encylopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. by Rosemary Ellen Guiley. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
Hodson, Geoffrey.
Fairies at Work and Play. 1925. Wheaton, IL, Madras and London: Quest, 1994.
[I believe this book has been reprinted numerous times between 1925 and 1994.]
Holdsworth, Peter.
"Fairy Godmother is so bewitching." Bradford Telegraph and Argus 21 Oct 1978.
"Famous fairies do exist insists Frances." Bradford Telegraph and Argus 18 Sept 1984.
Sanderson, S.F.
"The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: A Re-Appraisal
of the Evidence." Folklore 84(1973):89-103.
Smith, Paul.
"The Cottingley Fairies: The End of a Legend." in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. Ed. Peter Narvaez. Lexington: UP Kentucky, 1997. 371-405.
Tompkins, Peter.
The Secret Life of Nature. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
van Gelder, Dora.
The Real World of Fairies. Wheaton, IL, Madras and London:
Theosophical Publishing House, 1977.
[Reprinted several times (under the Quest Books imprint), including 1994.
Originally written quite some time ago, but I haven't found a date yet.
ISBN 0-8365-0497-7. 120 pages.]
Uncategorized
Coyne, Susan
Kingfisher Days Toronto: Random House, 2001.
[Reprinted in 2002 by Vintage Canada (a division of Random House).]
Faulding, G.M.
Fairies. London: B.T. Batsford, and Toronto: The Musson
Book Co. Limited, 1913.
[No bibliography or references. 64 pages.]
Godwin, David.
"Goblins!" Fate October 1992. Vol. 45, No. 10. Issue 511. 66-69.
MacRitchie, David
The Testimony of Tradition Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner
and Co., 1890.
Fians, Fairies and Picts. London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1893.
[Reprinted in 1974 by Norwood Editions.]
McHargue, Georgess
The Impossible People: A History Natural and Unnatural of Beings
Terrible and Wonderful. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1972.
[Illustrated by Frank Bozzo.]
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