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Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

According to the Cornish tale of ‘The Little Cake-Bird,’ Piskeys were known to sneak into the bedrooms of children via the keyhole and then pass over the child's nose in order to control their dreams. #FolkyFriday #FaerieFriday

🎨: Warwick Goble

#Folklore #Fairies #Faeries #FairyTales #Piskeys #Pixies #Dreams #CornishFolklore

According to Cornish folklore, a Padstow man once shot a mermaid for rejecting his unwanted advances. With her dying breath, the mermaid cursed his entire town, creating a dangerous sandbar across the Camel estuary that would become known as the Doom Bar of Padstow.

#FolkloreSunday #Folklore #Folktale #Mermaid #Cornwall #CornishFolklore #England

📷: Jeremy Bishop

@thefolklorepodcast #CornishFolklore, lol.