The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
By W. Y. Evans-Wentz
- Release Date: 2026-05-12
- Genre: Social Science
Description
Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz — later better remembered for his editorial work on Tibetan Buddhist texts — produced as his Oxford doctoral dissertation The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911), a substantial anthropological field-study of the fairy-faith of contemporary rural Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany. This edition reproduces the standard public-domain text in full.
