Name: The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries
ISBN: 9780806511603

Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz

The writer best-known as the author/translator of "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" presents a body of tradition and testimony about an elusive order that survives in the natural setting of wild and lonely places--a classic study of the luminous reality of leprechauns, pixies, and other fairy spirits. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries

W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Announcing a new edition of the classic study of traditional Celtic spirituality -- a book that unites ancient Paganism, medieval myths, and traditional fairy beliefs into a powerful celebration of Celtic wisdom. W.Y. Evans-Wentz was best known as the translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, but in the world of Celtic spirituality, he made his mark through The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. This magnificent book collects stories, interviews, and legends from all six of the regions where Celtic ways have persisted into the modern world: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man. It examines how fairy spirituality survived, even in the face of hostility from modern science and religion. It celebrates how beliefs that only a century ago were dismissed as quaint and superstitious were in fact powerful principles of ancient cultures that remained an essential feature of the Celtic world for generation after generation. This edition of The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries includes an insightful new introduction by metaphysical author Carl McColman, emphasizing how this classic work remains important and vital to practitioners of Celtic and magical spirituality, nearly a century after it was written. Book jacket.

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

Naomi J.

Wonderful treasure of folk practice. Some very odd theories in places, but it was written over a hundred years ago, so you can forgive the writer for believing in Celtic solar cults! There's never going to be such a range of evidence of belief in the Good Folk collected again, since the fairy faith is really a thing of the past in Ireland and Britain now. So this is absolutely worth reading, even if the old-fashioned style makes it a bit of a struggle to read.

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