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Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings: European Traditions [Kietas viršelis]

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Fairies, elves, and other magical beings theyre so much more than just childrens tales.





For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel supernatural realm inhabited by these beings who lived much like humans in their own communities. This social supernatural world mirrored ours with troll weddings, pixy battles, nereid picnics, dwarf migrations, and the like. Social supernatural beings were thought to interact with the human world in profound ways: they whipped up storms, ensured good harvests, and healed (and, all too often, caused) illness.





The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings dives into the rich folklore and oral traditions around the social supernatural across Europe; in fact, it pioneers the term social supernatural as a folklore and supernatural category. Bringing together eighteen experts, this is the first comprehensive Europe-wide look at these beliefs and practices. Through in-depth studies, the volume explores how diverse cultures from Ireland to Ukraine, and from Norway to Greece, envisioned their supernatural neighbours and how these parallel societies reflected human concerns and desires. Our authors employ ancient, medieval, modern and, in some cases, contemporary material to tease out the hidden people from obscure and, all too often, forgotten sources.





The book resurrects captivating stories and traditions. For anyone fascinated by European folklore, magic, and mythology, it provides a rich research seam with up-to-date bibliographies for a dozen European countries. It will be of use to folklorists, historians, ethnologists, sociologists and also the general reader interested in the supernatural beliefs of traditional European societies.

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...fascinating reading... These essays help us to understand the wider context both of human experience of supernatural societies, and those societies themselves, and are a valuable addition to Exeters growing catalogue of folklore titles. -- John Billingsley * Northern Earth * ...essential reading for anyone researching popular belief and supernatural traditions in Europe, regardless of whether they label themselves folklorists, historians, or scholars of religion.  -- Ethan Doyle White * Reading Religion * The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings represents an ambitious enterprise, but the editors have successfully managed to arrange a variety of chapter contributors in a coherent context. At £100 it will not suit the pocket of all enthusiasts. I would suggest it is nonetheless excellent value for money, destined to become a standard comparative text and reference work in its field, indispensable, of its sort, on the theme of the social supernatural. -- Stephen Miller * Folklore * The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings is a rigorously and meticulously edited reference work that brings together top-level specialists. It is, without a doubt, a fundamental contribution to the study of European imaginaries.  -- Óscar Abenójar * Boletķn de Literatura Oral *

1. Introducing the Social Supernatural Simon Young and Davide Ermacora

DOI: 10.47788/NIFG1335

2. Ireland: The Tribes of the Gods and the People of the Hills John Carey

DOI: 10.47788/OFEV8836

3. The Isle of Man: They Call Them the Good People Stephen Miller

DOI: 10.47788/YFYX8175

4. England: Small Fairies Are Beautiful Fairies Jeremy Harte

DOI: 10.47788/ULSI6409

5. Iceland: The Elves of Strandir Matthias Egeler

DOI: 10.47788/MOTK2852

6. Scandinavia: My Neighbour the Troll Tommy Kuusela

DOI: 10.47788/LHEL2533

7. The Netherlands: Witte Wieven and Other White Apparitions Yseult de
Blécourt

DOI: 10.47788/YXVN8515

8. Iberia: Moors, Gentiles and Encantadas José Manuel Pedrosa

DOI: 10.47788/HUME1621

9. France: Humanlike Societies and Spaces among the Fées Andrea Maraschi

DOI: 10.47788/WYMP2420

10. German-Speaking Europe: Moosweiblein, Wichtel and Nixen Janin Pisarek and
Florian Schaefer

DOI: 10.47788/ZCJG8520

11. Hungarians: Heavenly and Earthly Fairy Societies Éva Pócs

DOI: 10.47788/JVJT2813

12. Western Balkans: A Vila Like a Vila Dorian Juri

DOI: 10.47788/DDHP2327

13. Greece (and Italy): The Nereids, Those from Outside Tommaso Braccini

DOI: 10.47788/NGJH2743

14. The Balts: Laume.s and Laime.s Francis Young and Saul Kubilit

DOI: 10.47788/HYYU5632

15. Ukraine: Courtship Rituals and Legends of the Bohyni Natalie Kononenko

DOI: 10.47788/UMXX7077
Simon Young, the foremost chronicler of Britains fairies, teaches at the University of California (Accent), Florence. He has published The Boggart: Folklore, Place-Names, History and Dialect (2023) with UEP and The Nail in the Skull and other Victorian Urban Legends with Mississippi, which was awarded the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award.





Davide Ermacora earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy, and at Lumičre University Lyon 2 in France. His research interests include the history of religions, supernatural belief systems, and traditional and contemporary legends. His first book, Monstrous Animal Siblings in Europe: From the Frater salernitanorum to the sooterkin, was published in 2022 in the Boletķn de Literatura Oral series.