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Jan Beveridge’s *Children into Swans* investigates how supernatural castes such as elves, dwarfs, fairies, giants, trolls, witches, and sorcerers have shaped folk and fairy‑tale narratives from the earliest northern European folklore to the nineteenth‑century period. Drawing on Celtic and Norse myths, the study shows that these archetypes reveal a pre‑Christian imagination in which an invisible other world exists alongside the mundane. The book opens a window onto some of the most extraordinary, starkly beautiful, and sometimes horrific worlds portrayed in traditional literature.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: History/Ancient History
Authors: Jan Beveridge
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