num_pages: 296
description: This is a rather special guide. It is for dreamers with wide-open eyes, and it deals with that aspect of reality which most dreamers can see clearly: the world ofvmagic delineated by slanting sunlight, sea-foam, turf-smoke, and voices singing in high, lonely meadows. Children and madmen know it. It has been roughly mapped by poets, who often return blind from its shores because they have seen too much of it. It is the Realm of Faery, and it is right here and now, as well as long ago and far away. This enchanting book is a guide to many of its fantastic inhabitants.Each of the seventy-nine entries sets out the lineage, habitat, appearance, and general characteristics of the species concerned, usually following these details with case histories which form a rich compendium of folk tales. Here you will find the Moss-mannikins and Forest-fathers; the Hey-Hey Men; the seductive White Ladies; the Red Caps; the Korred, who live under Brittany's dolmens; Sea Trows, Salvani, and Rusalky; Vily, Kornböcke, Exoticas, Laúri, Folletti, and Incubi. You will learn how two Leshiye caused the Great Squirrel Migration of 1843, how a Linchetto can be subdued, and that you should not try to help a person who is drowning (or the Vodyany will be offended). You will discover why the Erdluitle of Switzerland are so reluctant to show their feet to humans. And you will realize that the Leprechauns and Fairies you may have thought you knew are quite different folk after all.-from jacket flap
language: English
title: A Field Guide to the Little People
titlecomplete: A Field Guide to the Little People
genres: Reference, Fairy Tales, Science Fiction Fantasy, Research, Art, Mythology, Fantasy, Fairies, Folklore
ratings_count: 261
publisher: Hill and Wang