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  • Fairies cause disease in America: A note on a motif

    In English folklore, it’s a well-known fact that fairies (or elves, as they were called) had the ability to cause illness in humans and animals. In Anglo-Saxon medical texts, writers offered remedies such as adding holy water to animal feed to protect livestock from elfin enchantment. Similar themes can be found in Irish and Scottish…

  • New England Fairies now available as an audiobook

    New England Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Hills and Forests is now available as an audiobook by Tantor Media, narrated beautifully by actor Joe Jameson (who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in my hometown). I couldn’t be happier about the way that Joe brings the book to life!…

  • Conversation About North American Fairies

    This week I appeared on The Witching Hours podcast to talk about North American fairies with hosts Medium Jenny Lea and Frosty. I also got to introduce my research for my forthcoming book Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains. You can listen to our conversation above or on…

  • The Cult of Annabelle (or the experience of evil)

    Last weekend I had the great pleasure of taking part in a panel at the Maine Paranormal and Horror Convention, where I got to see the original Annabelle doll. (For those who aren’t familiar with Annabelle, she’s the demon-infested doll made famous by The Conjuring film series: she’s currently traveling the United States as part…

  • Monsters, witches, and fairies

    I had the good fortune recently of being on a panel at Fan Expo Boston with Sam Baltrusis and Ronny Le Blanc, both well-known authors and television personalities in the field of the paranormal. The panel was called Monsters of New England, which inevitably got me thinking about the question, “What is a monster?” and…

  • Q&A with Melody Rose Paul, Maine author of new fairy book

    Buster and the Little Fairies is a new children’s book written by Melody Rose Paul with illustrations by Tiana Vermette. It features fairies from Mi’kmaq tradition and tells a story about love and family healing. Here is a Q&A with Melody Rose Paul about her inspiration for the book. Paul, who’s from the Eskasoni First…

  • Conversation with The Witching Hours podcast

    I was lucky enough to meet Frosty and medium Jenny Lea of The Witching Hours podcast at ParaConn in Waterbury, Connecticut, last weekend. Not only are they great people but also great interviewers! We talked about the Somerville troll, banshees in New England, New York and Pennsylvania, and what to do if a fairy offers…

  • Meet these fairy-haunted New Yorkers

    Here I want to introduce some of the people I’ve written about in my book New York Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Empire State. Believe it or not, New Yorkers have encountered fairies in every corner of the state. Unsurprisingly, many of these people were first-generation Irish Americans. However, people from…

  • New York Fairies is OUT NOW!

    I’m so happy to say that New York Fairies: A History of the Little People of the Empire State releases today! This is the first book that collects all the fairy and Little People folklore in New York State, making it the perfect follow up to New England Fairies. I had so much fun gathering…

  • Marblehead’s lost pixie boulders

    Today I want to share a photograph that might help illuminate the numerous nineteenth-century sources in which residents of Marblehead, Massachusetts, are described as possessing a belief in pixies. NB. We’re indebted to folklorists Peter Muise and Stephen Gencarella for drawing attention to these sources. It’s thought that fishermen from Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall brought…