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Introducing Fairies and Fairyland

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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield in conversation about traditional British tales about fairies. In this first episode they talk about the ways in which mortals come into contact with the fairies, what happens when humans are taken into the Other World – the strange tricks that time plays, the dangers that human-fairy encounters run. They also introduce the Modern Fairies project in which writers, musicians and artists come together to make new creative responses to the fairy themes explore and outlines in the series.

Brian McMahon reads some excerpts from the tales about fairies that are focused on this episode.

Date Published: 21 May 2020
Contributors:
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon
In Collection(s): Modern Fairies
Keywords:
fairies, other world, loathly ladies, folksong, folktales, Modern Fairies project
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Introducing Fairies and Fairyland by Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/introducing-fairies-and-fairyland via http://writersinspire.org/content/introducing-fairies-fairyland. Published on 21 May 2020. Accessed on 08 November 2024.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Introducing Fairies and Fairyland (https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/introducing-fairies-and-fairyland) by Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).