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Rieti, Barbara
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Fairies -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Folklore -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fairy tales -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History and criticism.
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Rieti, Barbara
Fairies -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Folklore -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fairy tales -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History and criticism.
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Strange
terrain
: the
fairy
world
in
Newfoundland
/ Barbara Rieti.
by
Rieti, Barbara
Memorial University Press, 2021.
Call #:
398.209718 R563s
Subjects
Fairies --
Newfoundland
and Labrador.
Folklore --
Newfoundland
and Labrador.
Fairy
tales --
Newfoundland
and Labrador -- History and criticism.
Series
Social and economic studies (St. John's, N.L.) ; no. 88.
ISBN:
9781894725804 (trade pbk)
Edition:
30th anniversary ed.
Description:
xxxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Thirty years after its original publication, Barbara Rieti's award-winning and iconic work is reissued as a special anniversary edition. Fairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form of people or animals, or they may have no form at all, as when a person walking in the woods is “led astray” by some irresistible force. This variability in fairies is matched by the diversity of human attitudes about them. Barbara Rieti’s study began in 1983 when she met a young man who told her that he had been followed by the fairies. Subsequent research drew on the hundreds of archival accounts of fairies and on Dr. Rieti’s own fieldwork on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. Rieti describes the specific contexts in which
fairy
experiences are recounted and the manner in which they are told, keeping the storytellers at centre stage. She also highlights themes such as connections between fairies and nature, and the relationships between fairies and people. Comparative material sets the subject in historical and international context and demonstrates the remarkable tenacity of these old yet persistent tales. The fairies may be going, but they are not gone yet. The stories still to be heard offer a window on everyday folklife, as well as on an extraordinary
world
."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize for Best Scholarly Work Written in English.
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