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British Goblins

Autor Wirt Sikes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 dec 2016
British Goblins - Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions. British Goblins does a good job at its stated purpose - collecting and loosely categorizing Welsh Folklore of every category, ranging from the reasons behind certain customs and superstitions of daily life, to descriptions and associated stories of various faeries, goblins, and giants, to descriptions of apparitions and the view of the afterlife, to more fantastic things, like dragons, standing stones, and magic wells and stones. Although a somewhat anecdotal approach is taken, the author has in fact preserved a good deal of information that might have otherwise been lost.
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ISBN-13: 9781365619663
ISBN-10: 1365619664
Pagini: 118
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Lulu Press

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William Wirt Sikes (1836 - 1883) was an American journalist and writer, perhaps best known today for his writings on Welsh folklore and customs. In June 1876 Sikes was appointed U.S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. Over the next few years Sikes produced a number of pieces on Welsh folklore, mythology, and customs, collected as British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions (1880) and Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales (1881). He also wrote Studies of Assassination (1881). He died in Cardiff in 1883 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey.

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Sikes's 1881 tome defines and records Welsh fairy legends as they existed--still vital, alive, not just a mordant mythology but living folklore in that year. It treats the subject mechanically, detailing fairy legends with care and precision. But all the same, there's plenty of magic here. (Classics)