# Evans-Wentz' Fairy Faith *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 18 Jan 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Brian *18 Jan 2012, 14:55* I've been reading Evan Wentz' "The Fairy-Faith i Celtic Countries," and I'm fairly convinced it's one of the sources Wolfe uses for his research. I've noticed many striking similarities, but have just been reading through rather than stopping to take notes. Has anyone else read this book, and do you agree with me as to it's being a likely source for Wolfe? --- ### David Duffy *19 Jan 2012, 00:43 · in reply to Brian* > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: > I've been reading Evan Wentz' "The Fairy-Faith i Celtic Countries," and > I'm fairly convinced it's one of the sources Wolfe uses for his > research. I've noticed many striking similarities, but have just been > reading through rather than stopping to take notes. > > Has anyone else read this book, and do you agree with me as to it's > being a likely source for Wolfe? I've looked through it, and agree it might be a source. But Wolfe always mentions Andrew Lang's books as a childhood love. Lang also edited _The Secret Commonwealth_, and his intro to that covers similar ground to Evans-Wentz. Another source might be Dunsany eg _Curse of the Wise Woman_. Cheers, David Duffy. --- ### Brian *19 Jan 2012, 14:28 · follows David Duffy* Since I didn't take notes, I don't have a complete list, but a couple of things stand out. A female fairy who walked through nettles as if they weren't there, and the idea that if one fairy in a group raises his hand, they all do, as if they were actually all the same being. How many darn fairies are in that group, anyway? On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: > I've been reading Evan Wentz' "The Fairy-Faith i Celtic Countries," and > I'm fairly convinced it's one of the sources Wolfe uses for his > research. I've noticed many striking similarities, but have just been > reading through rather than stopping to take notes. > > Has anyone else read this book, and do you agree with me as to it's > being a likely source for Wolfe? I've looked through it, and agree it might be a source. But Wolfe always mentions Andrew Lang's books as a childhood love. Lang also edited _The Secret Commonwealth_, and his intro to that covers similar ground to Evans-Wentz. Another source might be Dunsany eg _Curse of the Wise Woman_. Cheers, David Duffy. --- ### David Stockhoff *19 Jan 2012, 23:41 · in reply to David Duffy* > On 1/18/2012 7:43 PM, David Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: >> I've been reading Evan Wentz' "The Fairy-Faith i Celtic Countries," >> and I'm fairly convinced it's one of the sources Wolfe uses for his >> research. I've noticed many striking similarities, but have just >> been reading through rather than stopping to take notes. >> >> Has anyone else read this book, and do you agree with me as to it's >> being a likely source for Wolfe? > I've looked through it, and agree it might be a source. But Wolfe > always mentions Andrew Lang's books as a childhood love. Lang also > edited _The Secret Commonwealth_, and his intro to that covers > similar ground to Evans-Wentz. Another source might be Dunsany eg > _Curse of the Wise Woman_. The Kirk/Lang book is hard to find. But you can read it at http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/index.htm ---