Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia

Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia, Carol Rose's 1996 reference from W. W. Norton, gathers over 2,000 alphabetical entries on spirit beings, fairies, familiars and composite folkloric beings from traditions worldwide. Its strength is its sheer comparative breadth, useful for locating a folkloric being's basic identification. Its limit is that as a broad tertiary reference compiled by one author rather than a team of specialists in each tradition, a claim needing depth on any single tradition's beings should be checked against dedicated folklore scholarship for that tradition. This copy's bibliographic details were confirmed against independent commercial bibliographic listings agreeing on title, author, publisher, year and ISBN, since the work is not digitized on the Internet Archive; no url is given here for that reason, named rather than left silent.