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History Matters

Away with the Faeries

Folklore, fairies and demonic spirits in the sceptical 17th century.

Abigail Sparkes | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 12 December 2018

‘And nightly meadow-fairies, look you sing’: illustration for Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Hugh Thomson, 1910. © Bridgeman Images.

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