Simon’s British Mythology Substack
simon youngWelcome to the British dreamtime. A valiant attempt to recreate the mythology of Britain's best documented supernatural generations, the long nineteenth century, from 1765-1918. Fairies to ghosts, witchcraft to priestcraft, angels to devils....
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The Death of Fairy Funerals: A Boy, a Poet and a Philosopher
Introduction: Two Types of Fairy Funeral
In British, Manx and Irish folklore there are two types of fairy funerals. One, found in Wales, Man, the Scottish Highlands and Ireland, is the mimic funeral. The fairies act out a human funera...
The Tinner, the Pilchards and the Dead Fairy: A Fairy Funeral in Cornwall
Richard and the Funeral
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Richard Penberthy1 left St Ives on ‘a beautiful moonlight night’. It was pilchard season (August t...
All Hail the Supernaturalist & The Failures of Folklore and History
Introducing the Supernaturalist
I have the singular pleasure of spending about half of my time with folklorists and about half with historians (I politely avoid sociology departments). However, I confess that I don’t feel particularly...
Raising the Dead Fairy-Style: A Witch, A Copper and the Sidh in 19C Ireland
James Hayes in court 2 Sept 1864 : ‘It is not so extraordinary… for persons to be raised from the dead’.
Introduction
Mary Doheny (1820s-1870s?) was a nineteenth-century Irish ‘fairy woman’. She began her career as a herbalist. But M...
In Search of Aubrey's Missing Fairies: Boys, Pygmies and (Possibly) A Drunk Vicar
The prize offered in the final part of this essay can only be given once. The offer in no way affects your statutory rights, though it may improve your standing with the fairies
The Adventure
The year is 1633 and two boys, in Yatton...
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British folklore writer: author of The Boggart: Folklore, History, Placenames and Dialect (Exeter University Press 2022) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (Mississippi University Press 2022).
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