{"product_id":"fairies-a-history-by-francis-young-9781509566778","title":"Fairies : A History","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany people think they know what fairies are, what a fairy looks like, and how a fairy is expected to behave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Young's new history of fairies demonstrates that the truth about belief in fairies is far stranger than clichéd images of tiny figures with wings and wands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the rise of the 'small winged fairy' in the nineteenth century, the category of fairies included a vast range of supernatural human-like creatures, from the elves of Scandinavia and the aos sí of Ireland to the vilas of the Balkans and the fadas of Iberia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYoung traces the ancient origins of belief in such creatures and how it adapted to the rise of Christianity and then flourished in medieval Europe, before being transformed - but not destroyed - by the upheavals of the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and even European colonial expansion, which made fairies a global phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe concludes this uniquely wide-ranging history by reflecting on the surprising ways in which fairy belief endures in our apparently disenchanted contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo one who reads this brilliant tour through the enchanted pathways of fairyland will ever look at the winged creatures of contemporary popular culture - or the woods at the bottom of their garden - in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308647031157,"sku":"9781509566778","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781509566778.jpg?v=1782120583","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/fairies-a-history-by-francis-young-9781509566778","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}