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Fairies - A Dangerous History (Paperback)
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Fairies - A Dangerous History (Paperback)
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List price R480
Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
You Save R84 (18%)
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How dangerous were fairies? In the late seventeenth century, they
could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were
thought to be descended from fallen angels, and to have the power
to destroy the world itself. Such beliefs, along with some
remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on well into the twentieth
century. In literature and art fairies often retained this edge of
danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, through
the dark glamour of Keats, to the improbably erotic poem `Goblin
Market' or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral
otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate
or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty
years the enduring link between fairies and nature has been
robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from
Ireland to Iceland. This book, now available in paperback, tells
the story of the many fairy terrors that lay behind Titania or
Tinkerbell.
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