First published in 1911, the Classic book on the luminous reality of leprechauns, pixies, and Other Fairy Spirits What are fairies, those romantic and sometimes mischievous little people--pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all Other forms of the daoine sidhe (Fairy people)? Are they real? Folklorists say they are fragments of ancient religious beliefs; occultists call them nature spirits; the peasant tradition says they are fallen angels who were not good enough.
First published in 1911, the Classic book on the luminous reality of leprechauns, pixies, and Other Fairy Spirits What are fairies, those romantic and sometimes mischievous little people--pixies, nixies, elves, fauns, brownies, dwarfs, leprechauns, and all Other forms of the daoine sidhe (Fairy people)? Are they real? Folklorists say they are fragments of ancient religious beliefs; occultists call them nature spirits; the peasant tradition says they are fallen angels who were not good enough