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In reply to <a href="https://fairiesofnewengland.com/2025/03/10/new-york-fairies-cover-reveal/comment-page-1/#comment-109">victoriagrimalkin</a>. The image on the back is Arthur Rackham!
12.3.2025 13:58Comment on New York Fairies: Cover reveal! by Andrew WarburtonIf I were to ask you where fairies dwell in New York State, I wouldn’t be surprised if you mentioned natural locations such as the Adirondacks or Catskills. That’s because, in the present day, fairies are often associated with nature, with beautiful locations such as hills and forests. While completing my research for New York […]
12.3.2025 13:55My travels in search of New York fairies<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Looks fabulous and the art brings to mind the wonderful illustrations of Arthur Rackham. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
11.3.2025 19:34Comment on New York Fairies: Cover reveal! by victoriagrimalkinI’m excited to share the cover approved for my next book New York Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Empire State, out July 8! The book covers four hundred years of folklore about Little People, fairies, goblins, gnomes, imps and elves—all from New York State.
10.3.2025 16:36New York Fairies: Cover reveal!I had the pleasure of talking recently with Claire Casely of the Fairy Whispering podcast. Claire has written a book on British pixies that will be coming out soon: I can’t wait to read it. Check out our conversation above or wherever you listen to podcasts, including Spotify. We discuss the following topics: To read […]
14.2.2025 13:03A conversation with the Fairy WhispererThank you for sharing this, Andrew. I enjoyed reading it and I enjoy learning new things! - Karen Sent from AOL on Android
3.2.2025 20:19Comment on The use of “Fairy” in depictions of Queen Alexandra by karenl754[…] truths: in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies, for example (which I’ve written about here) Fairy (or the imagination, which is the mind’s Fairy power) becomes a panacea for social […]
3.2.2025 15:24Comment on Fairies in “The Water-Babies” by The use of “Fairy” in depictions of Queen Alexandra – Fairies of New England: The Little People of the Hil...NB. In this post, I use the term Fairy to describe a condition, state, or influence. However, it also refers to a discourse, that is, a set of understandings, references, and connotations related to fairy tales; it’s the use of this discourse I wish to examine in this post. I recently wrote a Facebook post […]
3.2.2025 15:24The use of “Fairy” in depictions of Queen AlexandraIn reply to <a href="https://fairiesofnewengland.com/2024/06/16/a-troll-in-new-england-the-story-of-the-somerville-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-105">John Smith</a>. thanks for the info, that adds a significant layer to the story. How did you learn about this?
30.1.2025 16:51Comment on A troll in New England? The story of the “Somerville Troll” by Andrew Warburton<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A young newlywed couple lived on the first floor of that house. In the summer of 78 the husband went out and never returned. He died in a car crash on 3A in Winchester. The widow lived there for a year following the accident. She never had any issues in that house until after her husband died. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
30.1.2025 16:39Comment on A troll in New England? The story of the “Somerville Troll” by John SmithIn reply to <a href="https://fairiesofnewengland.com/2024/12/10/demonization-of-little-people-and-fairies-in-new-england-folklore/comment-page-1/#comment-103">Andrew Warburton</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Aw thank you! I once thought I saw faeries in the lilac bushes at home in Alberta. I told my grandpa, and he believed me. I didn’t know what Manx even was, or that they believed in faeries. He was a dowser and was sometimes paid to help people building wells on the Saskatchewan prairies. His legacy is the inspiration for my book. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
21.12.2024 15:27Comment on Demonization of Little People and fairies in New England folklore by lisemayneIn reply to <a href="https://fairiesofnewengland.com/2024/12/10/demonization-of-little-people-and-fairies-in-new-england-folklore/comment-page-1/#comment-100">lisemayne</a>. Thanks Lise! I have preordered it and can’t wait to read it. It will be very interesting to read about Manx fairy lore in a novel. I will write a review on my blog next year. Merry Christmas!
21.12.2024 03:33Comment on Demonization of Little People and fairies in New England folklore by Andrew Warburton[…] Similarly worded statements about New England’s lack of fairies can be found in the writings of Larcom’s contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), and the above-mentioned Whittier (1807-1892). The “no-fairies-on-the-Mayflower” claim may even have been something of a cliché among educated Anglo-Americans in early-to-mid nineteenth-century New England. The expression was shorthand for the belief that the Puritans had abandoned superstitions and had passed down a “disenchanted” land to their descendants. Whether this belief corresponded with New Englanders’ actual experience of nature and the supernatural is something I’ve sought to examine in my book and in posts on Hartford, Connecticut, and Plymouth, Massachusetts. […]
16.12.2024 21:46Comment on “A mischievous fairy called Hob”: The story of Hob’s Hole in Plymouth, Massachusetts by Fairies in Beverly, Massachusetts, in the 1830s? – ...[…] of nature and the supernatural is something I’ve sought to examine in my book and in posts on Hartford, Connecticut, and Plymouth, […]
16.12.2024 21:46Comment on Did a hobgoblin live in a hole north of Hartford, Connecticut? by Fairies in Beverly, Massachusetts, in the 1830s? – Fairies of New England...Lucy Larcom’s A New England Girlhood (1889) contains a wealth of information about life in Beverly, Massachusetts, in the 1820s and 1830s when the town was a tiny seaport. Larcom was an author and poet, an impassioned abolitionist, an associate of John Greenleaf Whittier, and later a teacher at Wheaton College. Of particular interest to […]
16.12.2024 21:46Fairies in Beverly, Massachusetts, in the 1830s?In an earlier post about the hobgoblin Robin Goodfellow, I mentioned the widely reported phenomenon of folkloric beings starting out as neutral or benign and becoming, in the history of folklore, increasingly demonic (that is, monstrous or allied with the Devil). This process may occur under the influence of church authorities, secular courts, or the […]
10.12.2024 15:57Demonization of Little People and fairies in New England folkloreNew England Fairies is now available on Kindle in both the United States and United Kingdom. Purchase here for the US. Purchase here for the UK.
19.11.2024 15:12New England Fairies now available on KindleLast week I was in Somerset, England, for my dad’s funeral. The trip evoked fond memories from the late eighties of my dad taking my brother and me to sites rich in Somerset folklore. This included Swayne’s Leap, where small stones mark the spot where highwayman Jan Swayne leapt to his freedom during the English […]
1.11.2024 13:59Looking for the fairy “muse” at haunted Chanctonbury RingToward the end of his book Twilight of the Godlings, folklorist Francis Young writes about medieval romance as a genre that deals with fatalitas, a Late Latin word referring to the realm of fate and necessity. Romance and fairy tales exist within the realm of fatalitas because the characters found in these genres are subject […]
16.10.2024 18:00Religious and magical responses to fairy “fatality”: A reflectionI recently read Roald Dahl’s first ever children’s book The Gremlins in which he tells a story based on folklore about an imaginary being called a “gremlin,” which spread in the British Royal Air Force during World War Two. Although British pilots didn’t actually believe in these mysterious beings, they blamed them for accidents and […]
31.8.2024 18:26What Roald Dahl’s “The Gremlins” teaches us about fairies