There is a sudden reversal at the ending of Yeats’s “The Stolen Child.” In the first three stanzas we hear the call of the world inhabited by fairies—the waters and the wild, Sleuth Wood in the lake, ...

WEST FARGO - Julia Hell’s new hobby gives her an outlet to express creativity. But it’s not so easy to explain to the uninitiated. “I describe it to my friends as kind of like playing Barbies again,” ...

The male ruler of Ireland's fairy folk appears in many guises throughout folklore including the benevolent Finvarra and the ...

Race And The Development Of The European Fairy Tale, Literature Professor Kimberly Lau reveals how “innocent” stories often ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Fairy tales just don’t die. They just get rebooted for new ...

One August night while listening to the Hamilton soundtrack on his commute home from work, Jack Dowd, a writer in London, noticed something curious out of the corner of his eye: an abandoned book. The ...

This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The writing of “Fairy ...

Fairy circles are mysterious barren patches of land that are surrounded by healthy vegetation. The circles are common in many parts of the world but particularly in the arid grasslands of southern ...