Fairies in Tradition and Literature
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Published: June 1977
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780710086877
Subjects: Fairies; England
First sentence: The famous pronouncement of Friar Bacon's Brazen Head-'Time is, Time was, Time is past'-might well be taken to apply to English fairy beliefs, which from Chaucer's time onwards have been supposed to belong to the last generation and to be lost to the present one.