A New Dictionary of Fairies

A 21st Century Exploration of Celtic
and Related Western European Fairies

Morgan Daimler

Fairies are a challenging subject, intertwining culture, folklore, and anecdotal accounts across centuries and millennia. Focusing primarily on the Celtic speaking cultures, with some material from adjacent cultures including Anglo-Saxon and Norse, A New Dictionary of Fairies has in-depth entries on a variety of fairies as well as subjects related to them, such as why we picture elves with pointed ears or where the idea of fairies being invisible comes from. It also tackles more complicated topics like the nature and physicality of the fairy people. Anyone with an interest in the Good Neighbours will find this book a solid resource to draw from.

"I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Indeed, I would call it a worthy successor to the work of the late, great Katherine Briggs, the most highly regarded espert on fairies in the last half of the 20th century."
- Segomaros Widugeni, author of Ancient Fire: An Introduction to Gaulish Polytheism

Morgan Daimler is a blogger, poet, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, priestess of the Daoine Maithe, and is the author of more than two dozen books including The Morrigan, Fairies, and Fairycraft.