The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries is THE definitive scholarly study of the faery realm. Dr. Evans-Wentz is best known as the author-translator of "The Tibetan Book of the
Dead", but his first love was this book, which presents a body of tradition and testimony about an elusive order of life that survives in the natural setting of wild and lonely places. He was not satisfied with merely formal study, but collected first-hand reports of fairies in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, and faced up to the key questions avoided by other folklorists. Dr. Evans-Wentz, whose journeys led him from the haunts of fairyland to the wilderness of Tibet, opens a path for us to the luminous reality behind the traditions of folklore.

In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various and, at the same time, strikingly similar from country to country.

Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog" . . . an impossible tiny shoe found in Ireland . . . fairy dust discovered on Mount Shasta, California . . . the wondrous sighting of a winged woman inside a rose. These and many more astounding accounts are offered in the collection of spell-binding accounts.

This book represents important practical methods of working within the Faery realm. R.J. Stewart is one of the leading authors on Celtic Magic, Mythology, UnderWorld and Faery Traditions

Less than a century ago, particularly in Celtic countries, fairies were not dismissed so much as superstition but rather as a force to be reckoned with. It's curious that activities now attributed to aliens, such as crop circles and abductions, were once considered the ken of fairies; fairies today are merely woodland nymphs of yore by another name. Author and former president of the Theosophical Society Dora Van Gelder was born 95 years ago and saw these little creatures as a child in the northern California redwood forests and woodlands of the Pacific Northwest. Van Gelder's matter-of-fact descriptions of the various types of fairies and tree spirits will charm you. And maybe the book will help you to see through the blinders of modern life and into mystical realms. --Randall Cohan

Peter Tompkins, author of the New York Times number one bestseller The Secret Life of Plants, parallels the scientist's world of quarks and muons with the spiritualist's world of fairies and sprites in The Secret Life of Nature. There's more to nature than green leaves and twittering birds: it's a world that only the gifted and dedicated observer can see, using techniques of the mind that transcend the limits of the five senses, much as the scientist peers into the subatomic world with supercolliders and electron microscopes. Going beyond the boundaries of typical pro-environmental propaganda, The Secret Life of Nature is more than a plea to savethe planet; it will change the way you see the world.

Describes the various elemental beings and their roles in maintaining the web of life, along with the flow of energies within landscape and the long-suppressed Goddessculture. Includes evocative images of the nature spirits.