Resources – The Supernatural

Dennys, NB. The Folk-lore of China: and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic Races

Charles Wyllys Elliott, Mysteries; Or, Glimpses of the Supernatural: Containing Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft, the Cock-lane Ghost, the Rochester Rappings, the Stratford Mysteries, Oracles, Astrology, Dreams, Dreams, Demons, Ghosts, Spectres…Harper, 1852

The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale

Anglo-Saxon Charms:

Fairylore:

John O London Fairy Letters [0.2 mb, in cooperation with strangehistory.com]
Ballantyne Pixies [0.5 mb]
Chesterton Ethics of Elfland [9 mb]
Collison North Devonshire [0.3 mb]
Couch Cornish Village [1.19 mb]
Doyle Coming of the Fairies [7.8 mb]
Ernst The Microscopic Giants [1.06 mb]
Hardwick on fairies and boggarts [0.6 mb]
Inglis Beware of the Thing[1.15 mb]
Killen Edgar [Irish famine, 0.1 mb]
Lee Wisht Wood [0.5 mb]
Lewis Discarded Image [0.1 mb] very messy, if anyone has a proper version…
Lucas Highways [0.4 mb] short extract including fairy references
M’C Fairies [2.4 mb]
Pengelly South-west [6.1 mb]
Q The Pixies [0.1 mb]
shepard evans-wentz [1.7 mb]
Traill Pearls and Pebbles [ 1.1 mb] short extract about Canadian banshee
waterhouse, greenwood of Shakespeare [3.5 mb]
Whittle Devonshire Festivities and Superstitions [1.2 mb]
Wilkinson Memories of Hurstwood [6.0 mb]
Williams The Doom [0.3 mb] short extract on Welsh fairies

General Lore:

A.E. The Candle of Vision (London, Macmillian, 1919)
A.W. ‘Fairy ‘Folk-Lore’ of Shetland’ Antiquarian Magazine 1 (Jan. – June 1882), 135-137
A VILLAGER, ‘A Boggart at Worsthorne’, Burnley Express and Advertiser (26 May 1883), 7
Abram, William Alexander ‘Memorial of the Late T.T.Wilkinson, F.R.A.S. Burnley’ Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 (1875-1876), 77-94
Addy, Sidney Oldall Household tales with other traditional remains: collected in the counties of York, Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham (1895),
Aðalsteinsson, Jón Hnefill ‘The Testimony of Waking Consciousness and Dreams in Migratory Legends Concerning Human Encounters with the Hidden People’ Arv 49 (1993), 123-132
Allderidge, Patricia H. ‘Dadd, Richard (1817-1886)’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004) [accessed electronically].
Allderidge, Patricia H. The Late Richard Dadd (1974)
Allen, Dorena ‘Orpheus and Orfeo: The Dead and the Taken’ Medium Aevum 33 (1968) 263-273
Allen, Grant ‘Who Were the Fairies?’ Cornhill Magazine 43 (1881), 335-348
Allen, Louis ‘A Jaunty Moonbeam Man’ Anon 2007 Our Faerie Best, 121-122
Allen, Louis ‘The Moon People’ Anon 2007 Our Faerie Best, 119-120
Allies, Jabez The British, Roman and Saxon antiquities and folklore of Worcestershire (London: J.R. Smith, 1856)
Allison, Cheryl ‘‘Urban Fairy’ doors appear in Ardmore’ Mainline Media News (2 Dec 2013)
Almqvist, Bo ‘Irish Migratory Legends on the Supernatural: Sources, Studies and Problems’ Béaloideas 59 (1991) 1-43
Alspach, Russel K. ‘The Use by Yeats and Other Irish Writers of the Folklore of Patrick Kennedy’, The Journal of American Folklore, 59 (1946), 404-412
Alvin, C ‘A Flowery Path to Heaven’ Theosophical Quarterly 12 (1915) 167-173
An Inhabitant, A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood (London: John Russell Smith 1855)
Anderson, Anne ‘A singular vision: Brian Froud’s faerie world’, Gramarye 2 (2012), 15-22
Anderson, Cora Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition (Portland, Harpy Books 1994)
Anderson, Gail-Nina ‘Mermaids in Myth and Art’ Fortean Times (November 2009)
Anderson, Jaynie ‘’Erasmus and the Siren’, Erasmus in English II (1981/1982), 2-7 [?]
Anderson, Otto. ‘Seal Folk in East and West: Some Comments on a Fascinating Group of Folk Tales’ Folklore International: Essays in Traditional Literature, Belief, and Custom in Honor of Wayland Debs Hand (ed) D.K. Wilgus. Halboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1967. 1-6.
Andrew, ‘The Fairies of Scotland’ http://www.paranormal-encounters.com/wp/the-fairies-of-scotland/ (19 Nov 2013)
Andrew, S ‘Mr. S. Andrew [exhibited] old fairy pipes from Gloucester’, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarians Society 24 (1906), 172
Andrews, Elizabeth Faeries & Folklore of the British Isles (Moreton in Marsh: Arris Publishing, 2006)
Andrews, Stuart and Jason Higgs Paranormal Cornwall (Stroud: History Press, 2010), chapter six contains fairylore
Andrews, Ted ‘Wonders of the Fairy Realm’’ Anon 2007 Our Faerie Best, 111-118
Andrews, Ted Enchantment of the Faerie Realm: Communicate with Nature Spirits and Elementals. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993
An Enthusiast, ‘Catching a Salmon’, Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser (15 Oct 1853), 3
Animatorium ‘The Best Environmental Epic: The Case for Princess Mononoke’, 5 Dec 2013 http://the-animatorium.blogspot.it/2013/12/the-best-environmental-epic-case-for.html
Anon, A Description of England and Wales (London, 1769), multi volume set
Anon [no title], Glasgow Herald (4 August 1826), 1
Anon, ‘Horrible Results of Superstition’, The Examiner (16 July 1826), 6
Anon ‘Practical Pun’, Berkshire Chronicle (14 October 1826), 3
Anon, ‘Attempt at Murder and Suicide’, Lancaster Gazette (19 April 1828), 3
Anon, ‘Dublin Sept 26: Difference between Ghosts and Good People’, Morning Chronicle (30 Sep 1829), 4
Anon, The Morning Chronicle (19 Sept 1829), 3
Anon, ‘Fairy Children’, The Dublin Penny Journal 1 (Jan 12, 1833), 227
Anon, ‘Curious Fact – A Fairy Tale’ The Morning Chronicle (3 March 1834), 1
Anon, ‘Unparalleled Imposture! Witchcraft’, Belfast Newsletter (11 April 1834), 1
Anon, ‘A Fairy’, Belfast News-Letter (20 Feb 1835), 2
Anon, ‘Pallasgrean Petty Sessions’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (4 Jan 1838), p. 4
Anon, ‘A Ghost Story’, Sheffield Independent (26 January 1839), 6
Anon, ‘Extraordinary Case of Gross Superstition’, Belfast News-Letter (17 April 1840), 2
Anon, ‘The Rockite Emissary from Fairy Land: Plunder of Fire-Arms’ Nenagh Guardian, 5 Feb 1840, p. 3
Anon, ‘County of Armagh Assizes: Murder of a Child by his Father’, Belfast News-Letter (11 Aug 1840), 1
Anon, ‘Superstition’, Belfast News-Letter (1842), 2
Anon ‘A Determined Boggart’ Kendal Mercury (14 May 1842), 1
Anon, ‘Curious Case of Superstition’, Nenagh Guardian (13 Sep 1843), 4
Anon, ‘A Female Quack: Gross Superstition: Another Johnny Mahony’, Nenagh Guardian (4 May 1844), 4
Anon, ‘Awful Occurrence’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (18 Aug 1846), p. 2
Anon, ‘A Child Murdered by its Father’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (8 Apr 1848), ?
Anon, ‘Extraordinary Credulity in the Nineteenth Century’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (1 July 1848), p. 1 excerpted from the Westmeath Guardian
Anon, ‘Extraordinary Case: A Fairy Turned Swindler!’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (1 Jan 1849), 4
Anon, ‘The Queen of the Fairies’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (16 Jun 1849), p. 4
Anon ‘Witchcraft’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, (13 Sep 1850), p. 4
Anon, ‘Ghost Story’, Lancaster Gazette (25 January 1851), 5
Anon ‘Ghost Story’, Lancaster Gazette (25 January 1851), 5
Anon, ‘County of Antrim Assizes’, Belfast News-Letter (23 July 1852) no. 11756, p.1
Anon, ‘On Monday Last’, Belfast News-Letter (9 August 1852) no. 11763, p. 1 excerpted from Anglo-Celt.
Anon, ‘Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq, F.S.A’ Gentleman’s Magazine 197 (1854) 397-401
Anon, ‘Superstition in Kilkenny’, Preston Guardian (19 Apr 1856), 2
Anon ‘On the Popular Customs and Superstitions of Lancashire’, The Burnley Advertiser (4 May 1861), 4
Anon ‘Loitering In The Street’, The Lancaster Gazette Supplement (2 Nov 1861), 1
Anon ‘Daniel O’Leary, Duhallow Piper’ Irish American Weekly (15 November 1862), 2
Anon, ‘Harry Andrew: A Christmas Story’, Dunfermline Saturday Press (16 January 1864), 5
Anon, ‘County Galway’ Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, (16 July 1866), p. 4
Anon, ‘The Fairies – Stealing’, Nation, 27 Mar 1869, p. 6
Anon, ‘Fairies in Belfast’ Belfast News-Letter (29 Mar 1870), no.54672, p.3.
Anon, ‘Something about Ghosts’ Lancaster Gazette (15 October 1870), 8
Anon, ‘Strange Freak of a Lunatic’, Lancaster Gazette (17 March 1877), 5
Anon ‘Up and Down the Country: Ranscliff’ Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial & General Advertiser (6 December 1879), 7
Anon, ‘Legends of Worsthorn’, Burnley Advertiser (17 January 1880), 8
Anon, ‘The Land Act’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (21 Dec 1883), 7
Anon, ‘The Lisowran Murder Case’, Nenagh Guardian, (8 Dec 1883), 3
Anon, ‘Local Notes and Queries.’ The Leeds Mercury (11 October 1884), 8
Anon, ‘Extraordinary Superstition’, Birmingham Daily Post (19 May 1884), 8
Anon, ‘A Holiday Sketch’ Motherwell Times (28 July 1888), 4
Anon, ‘Andersonian Naturalist Society’ Glasgow Herald (9 September 1889), 6
Anon, ‘Terrible Tragedy in Donegal’, Belfast News-Letter (27 May 1890), 5.
Anon, ‘The Dungley Boggart’, Blackburn Standard (21 May 1892), 5
Anon, ‘Boggart Hole Clough and Its Ghost’, Manchester Times (27 October 1893), 5
Anon, ‘Bantry Petty Sessions: The Use of the Word Fairy’, Southern Star (27 Apr 1895), 2
Anon, ‘A Belief in the Fairies: an Extraordinary Case’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (19 Feb 1897), 6
Anon, ‘Rossendale Boggart Tales’, Burnley Express and Advertiser (28 August 1897), 3
Anon, ‘Interesting Literary Discovery’ Manchester Times (25 February 1898), 5
Anon, ‘McQuillan and the Fairies’, Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (13 Sep 1898), 6
Anon, ‘Alleged Serious Assault at Cardonagh’, Belfast News-Letter (28 October 1898), 7
Anon, ‘Assault and Abusive Language’, Anglo Celt (4 Feb 1899), p. 4
Anon, ‘Towneley Hall’, Burnley Express (18 January 1902), 7
Anon ‘Barcroft Hall’ Burnley Express (1 February 1902), 7
Anon ‘Fairy Tales’, The Celtic Review 5 (1908), 155-171