Monday, August 3, 2009

10 Books A Day: #102











Cassell Dictionary Of Superstitions...David Pickering...Cassell
An Encyclopedia Of Fairies...Katherine Briggs...Pantheon
The Oxford Companion To Fairy Tales...ed. Jack Zipes...Oxford University Press
No Go The Bogeyman...Marina Warner...Chatto & Windus
A Dictionary Of English Folklore...Jacqueline Simpson And Steve Roud...Oxford University Press
Texas Folk And Folklore...Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, Allen Maxwell...Southern Methodist University Press
British Folktales...Katherine Briggs...Pantheon
The History Of Witchcraft And Demonology...Montague Summers...Castle Books
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore And Legends...Katherine Briggs...Pantheon
From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings...Dr. Karl P. N. Shuker...Bounty Books
I have quite a few books by Katherine Briggs, and they cover some of the same material a few times, but I would still love to get a copy of her ground-breaking The Anatomy of Puck, dealing with the folklore elements in Shakespear. With his volume on witchcraft I complete the famous troika of Montague Summers on werewolf, witch and vampire.
Book Count: 1170.

3 comments:

AlanDP said...

What an utterly horrifying puppet on the cover of that English Folklore book! Reminds me of that puppet who lived in the museum-go-round on Mr. Rogers. Yikes.

Brer said...

Ah yes, Mr. Punch. If Dick Van Dyke and Lady Elaine Fairchild (of Mr. Rogers' fame) had a son, it would be Mr. Punch. He's been scaring kids for hundreds of years now.

AlanDP said...

Oh, so that's Punch. I had never seen him so close-up before.