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Spirited away : fairy stories of Old Newfoundland / by Tom Dawe ; with illustrations by Veselina Tomova.

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Running the Goat Books & Broadsides, c2017.

Fairies -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature.

Folklore -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Juvenile literature

Tales -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Juvenile literature

59 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

In a place like this -- Music man -- The Marsh -- A fairy funeral -- Bones -- Fallen angles -- Spirited away -- The Changeling -- Where water ran the other way.

In this companion volume to their collaboration An Old Man's Winter Night, Tom Dawe and Veselina Tomova present a fascinating, tantalizing, and chilling collection of fairy lore. No benign tooth fairies here; these fairies are amoral, tricky, dangerous, and beguiling. A young school teacher learns about strange lights in a foreboding marsh; a nurse in a remote outport visits the baby she delivered just weeks before to find a devastating change; a woman meets a mysterious funeral procession late one evening; a musician happens upon a group of strange little people; a girl is entranced by a strange green butterfly. The pages of Spirited Away are populated by those who wander onto fairy paths or fall under the spell of mysterious music; by the fairy-led--people lost in surroundings long familiar; by changelings; by people who stray onto fairy turf, and experience unnerving events. These literary renderings of stories and anecdotes Dawe has collected across the province offer an accessible and engaging introduction to one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most powerful and peculiar folk traditions. Tomova's darkly poetic wood-cut illustrations plumb the fascinating heart of these strange and affecting tales.

Tomova, Veselina, 1958-

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