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Celtic Fairies

Understanding the Celtic Fairies in Fairy Tales,
ch 1 - Origins of the Celtic people.

Dark forests rise like cresting waves up and down the mountain and hill side before crashing at last into the sea. The stillness of this dark forest is broken only the sound of a fairies song which could be heard, long after the forests gave way to farm and fields.

In 1877 Queen Victoria took a boat out to a small island in center of Loch Maree and there like hundreds even thousands before her she nailed a coin into an old tree, a votive offering for the fairy within in return that her wish might be granted. Nearby sat a pool which was said to have cured people of lunacy at one time, and a small glade of trees in which ancient rituals had been performed only a few hundred years before.

List of Irish Fairies


Welsh: List of Fairies

A comprehensive listing of Welsh fairies and the stories about them.

List of Scottish Fairies


iThe Religion of the Ancient Celts
by J. A. MacCulloch (1911)
Chapter I. Introductory
Chapter II. The Celtic People
Chapter III. The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
Chapter IV. The Irish Mythological Cycle
Chapter V. The Tuatha Dé Danann
Chapter VI. The Gods of the Brythons
Chapter VII. The Cúchulainn Cycle
Chapter VIII. The Fionn Saga
Chapter IX. Gods and Men
Chapter X. The Cult of the Dead
Chapter XI. Primitive Nature Worship
Chapter XII. River and Well Worship
Chapter XIII. Tree and Plant Worship
Chapter XIV. Animal Worship
Chapter XV. Cosmogony
Chapter XVI. Sacrifice, Prayer, and Divination
Chapter XVII. Tabu.
Chapter XVIII. Festivals.
Chapter XIX. Accessories of Cult
Chapter XX. The Druids
Chapter XXI. Magic.
Chapter XXII. The State of the Dead
Chapter XXIII. Rebirth and Transmigration
Chapter XXIV. Elysium

Fairy Legends and Traditions
by Thomas Crofton Croker (1825)
Chapter I. The Interest and Importance of Celtic Mythology
Chapter II. The Sources of Our Knowledge of the Celtic Mythology
Chapter III. Who Were the ''Ancient Britons''?
Chapter IV. The Religion of the Ancient Britons and Druidism

Welsh and British Fairies


British Goblins
by Wirt Sikes (1881)
Chapter I: Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology
Chapter II: Classification of Welsh Fairies
Chapter III: Lake Fairies
Chapter IV: Mountain Fairies
Chapter V: Changelings
Chapter VI: Living with the Tylwyth Teg 
Chapter VII: Fairy Music
Chapter VIII: Fairy Rings
Chapter IX: Piety as a Protection from the Seductions of the Tylwyth Teg 
Chapter X: Fairy Money and Fairy Gifts in General 
Chapter XI: Origins of Welsh Fairies

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Irish Fairies
Fairy Legends and Traditions
by Thomas Crofton Croker (1825)
Chapter V. The Gods of the Gaels
Chapter VI. The Gods Arrive
Chapter VII. The Rise of the Sun-God
Chapter VIII. The Gaelic Argonauts
Chapter IX. The War with the Giants
Chapter X. The Conquest of the Gods by Mortals
Chapter XI. The Gods in Exile
Chapter XII. The Irish Iliad
Chapter XIII. Some Gaelic Love-Stories
Chapter XIV. Finn and the Fenians
Chapter XV. The Decline and Fall of the Gods