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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rieti, Barbara     Subjects     Fairies -- Newfoundland and Labrador.     Folklore -- Newfoundland and Labrador.     Fairy tales -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rieti, Barbara       by title:      Strange terrain : th...       by call number:      398.209718 R563s     Search the Web     Rieti, Barbara     Fairies -- Newfoundland and Labrador.     Folklore -- Newfoundland and Labrador.     Fairy tales -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History and criticism.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 398.209718 R563s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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