 | Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Library of the Mystic Arts) by Evans
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $5.25 The classic; a study of faery beliefs in every Celtic nation, based mainly on personal testimonies
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 | Celtic Myth and Legend: From Arthur and the Round Table to the Gaelic Gods and the Giants They Battled-- The Celebrated Comprehensive Treasury of Celtic Mythology, Legend by Charles Squire
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $1.66 Includes retellings of almost every Celtic myth I've ever heard of. Will help the above book make more sense.
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 | Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) by Katharine Briggs
Buy used from: $22.90 Just what it says it is. Definitely get a copy of this if you find one.
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 | Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits
Buy new: $18.20 / Used from: $10.00 All Celtic-ed out? Try meeting some Russian faeries.
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 | The Faeries' Oracle by Brian Froud
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $2.94 Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. The book is great too. You'll feel like you know these faeries personally.
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 | Healing With The Fairies: Oracle Cards by Doreen Virtue
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.66 Another faery oracle, with a more psychological spin. These are beautiful as well, and a great mood-lifter.
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 | Enchantment of the Faerie Realm: Communicate with Nature Spirits & Elementals by Ted Andrews
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.45 Too left-brained at times, but the meditations are pretty good.
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 | At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss
Buy used from: $15.00 The darker side of faeries. Compares faeries to the baby-stealing demons of ancient Mesopotamia and the alien abduction stories of today.
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 | Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Bulfinch
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.85 Dryads and Naiads and Nymphs, Oh My!
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 | The Mabinogion (Dover Thrift Editions)
Buy new: $3.00 / Used from: $0.01 Read this, and any other volume of folk tales you can get your hands on.
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 | The Oxford Book of Ballads (Oxford Paperbacks)
Buy used from: $4.53 A number of these ballads deal with relationships between humans and faeries
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| A Fairy Tale Reader: A Collection of Story, Lore and Vision by John Matthews
Buy used from: $0.18 A beautiful, if disjointed, book about faery folklore. Includes tales, essays, book excerpts, and all sorts of other relevant stuff.
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 | The Fairy Ring: An Oracle of the Fairy Folk by Anna Franklin
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $2.23 My new favorite faery oracle deck. Each card represents a traditional faery from British Isles folklore. No sugarcoating; some of these cards are scary!
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 | Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia by Carol Rose
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.52 A huge encyclopedic volume about faeries and similar spirits from around the world. I have no clue why this is listed as ages 4-8.
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 | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin
Buy used from: $19.99 Beautiful and frightfully informative.
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