A History of Fairies

What are fairies? Where did the idea come from? In this mainly-medieval history of fairies, I talk about how weird and ambiguous and confusing fairies have always been - are they good? bad? evil? Where do they live? Who even knows?! In this video, I babble about all of those questions to my heart's content. Enjoy!! xxx

If you'd like to have a read of some books that I used to inform this video, here is a juicy bibliography for you to peruse:

R. Bartlett, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 2000.
R. Firth Green, Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, 2016.
A. Hall, Elves in Anglo Saxon England, 2007.
R. Hutton, ‘The Making of the Early Modern British Fairy Tradition’, The Historical Journal 57, 2015.
A. Lawrence-Mathers, Merlin the Magician, 2012.
H. R. Patch, The Other World: according to descriptions in medieval literature, 1950.
J. Wade, Fairies in Medieval Romance, 2011.
C. S. Watkins, History and the Supernatural in Medieval England, 2007.

[gingerels]

alternative title: a history of humans being extremely inconsistent & irritating for future historians
(this was so interesting i loved it please do more videos like this!!!) x x

[fatimapashaa]

Ok I’m genuinely so intrigued can you pls do more vids about history of different supernatural creatures

[keelanshorten]

currently watching this writing a cambridge history essay for 'man, nature and the supernatural' assuming this is what this video was born out of!

[annawillmoth]

so interesting! and weirdly relevant to what I’m studying literally right now - helping me out with A Midsummer Night’s Dream - thank you!!

[meganhoward]

It's cool to see how these ideas have morphed and changed to fit into pop culture and liturature. Thanks :)

[fatimapashaa]

Ok but I was here bec I’m obsessed with getting into Cambridge and now I’m obsessed W this content too😫🔪🔪🔪

[laurenschofield]

Love fairies 😂 and love the fact you included barbie 😂

[ixisinvestigator]

infos are basic but she herself looks as a fairy