Simon’s British Mythology Substack
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Are Faeries Fairies? Fairy Rules and the Circle Dance
15 Fairy Rules
This spring I wrote a book on traditional fairies. My provisional title? Mab’s Children: The Fairies of Britain, Ireland and Man, 1700-1918. I hope it will be out late 2027 or early 2028: I’ve still got to do all the fo...
RIP Carlo Ginzburg: The Historian Who Took Strange People Seriously
RIP Carlo Ginzburg
I’m bringing this substack out a couple of days early because of sad news from Italy. Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026) has died, plenus dierum, at 87. CG was, for those who don’t know, a public intellectual in a tradition...
The Kids, the Hells Angels and the Fairy Caves
Introduction
And so reader welcome to the legendary Fairy Caves of Oswaldtwistle in the County of Lancashire. You may have seen the dawn rise over Helms Deep, watched the moonlight glint on Cair Paravel, or spotted dragons in flight o...
Taking the Fairies to Court: Darby vs the Rade in 1837
Fairies in Court
In late December 1837 two Limerick magistrates came together for the Pallasgreen Petty Sessions, where justice would be meted out to miscreants on the Limerick-Tipperary border.1 The first was the Rev. Charles P. Coot...
Fungi and Fairies: Five Fairy Mushroom Secrets
Fairy Ring Basics
Of course, fairies are associated with mushrooms, toadstools, and all kinds of fungi. But until some recent correspondence with fellow fairyist Anastasia Robinson, I had not appreciated how mycology — the study of fu...
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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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