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Tammy and Tommy in Fairyland

Picture by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law I’ve come across multiple mentions of the Ballad of Tam Lin, so I thought that might be something worth addressing in a post. The Scottish song is thought to have existed as far back as … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Celtic, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Halloween, History, Holidays, Magic, Music, Mythology, october daye, Poetry, Relationships, Scottish, seanan mcguire, United Kingdom, Welsh | Tagged fairies, fairyland, fire and hemlock, heaven, hell, night and silence, oberon, prophecy, robert burns, tam lin, thomas the rhymer, walter scott |

All in How You Spell ‘Em

I saw something recently about the difference between the words “fairy” and “faerie.” Really, there’s no difference; the latter is just an archaic spelling. The word comes from the French for “fate,” and therefore “enchantment”; and was applied to many different … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, British, Celtic, Discworld, Etymology, Greek Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged aleister crowley, dennis wilson wise, dwarves, elves, fairies, fairyland, gnomes, goblins, immortals, john william polidori, lee speth, lord of the rings, noldor, nomes, nymphs, orcs, ozma of oz, spelling, the baum bugle, the hobbit, the hungry tiger of oz, vampires, words |

It’s Just a Fantasy

The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home, by Catherynne Valente – I believe this is officially the last book in the Fairyland series, but who knows what the future will bring? Well, maybe the marids do. Anyway, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Chinese, Comics, Fairy Tales, Humor, Mythology, Norse, Tom Holt | Tagged attila the hun, big bad wolf, catherynne valente, dragons, erica henderson, fairyland, joan of arc, marids, marvel comics, nothing but blue skies, odin, rumpelstiltskin, ryan north, snow white, snow white and the seven samurai, squirrel girl, the girl who raced fairyland all the way home, the unbeatable squirrel girl, three little pigs, tom thumb, valhalla |

The Patchwork Map of Oz

One of the tropes I came across on TV Tropes for the Land of Oz is that of the Patchwork Map, which definitely applies to Oz and the surrounding nations. A dry desert surrounds the entire nation, even though this … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, L. Frank Baum, Maps, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged ak, burzee, captain salt in oz, cookry land, david hulan, fairyland, great wilderness of braz, james haff, jelly bean island, king king double king, king kojo, laughing valley of hohaho, lost islands, merryland, mo, nonestic ocean, patchwork map, ray powell, rolantic ocean, royal baking powder company, santa claus, sissajig, tarara, the crescent moon over tarara, the curious cruise of captain santa, the flask with the golden stopper, the kingdom of boxtoes and hammerheels, the life and adventures of santa claus, the little prince and the faithful bluebird, the magical monarch of mo, the princess of plumpieland!, the princess of whereyouwill, the raggedys in oz, the royal explorers of oz, the seeress of saucerville, the singing tailor of nevermindwhere, the story of the first brown-haired princess, the toothache of the sultan, the wizard of way-up, the wizard of way-up and king ripitik the tenth, tik-tok of oz, trina robbins, tv tropes, way-up |

A Troll in Chicago

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, by Catherynne M. Valente – This is the fourth book in the Fairyland series, and the first to focus on a new protagonist, although the old one does appear. The story involves the concept of … Continue reading →

We’re Fairies on the Moon

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, by Catherynne M. Valente – I read the first two books in this series last year, and quite enjoyed them. This one continues the series when September returns … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged a-through-l, buraq, catherynne valente, fairies, fairyland, the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two, yeti |

Leave the Real World Far Behind

If you’ve watched the DiC Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoons, you’ll know that the inhabitants of the Mushroom World are always referring to the Earth we know as “the real world.” Wouldn’t their own world be more real to them? … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Harry Potter, L. Frank Baum, Mario, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, Xanth | Tagged bill willingham, fables, fairies, fairyland, king ato, pirates in oz, princess gureeda, real world, robert heinlein, speedy in oz, the adventures of super mario bros. 3, ugu the shoemaker, waddy |

September Surprise

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente – In these books, a girl named September, who lives in Omaha … Continue reading →

Fun with Fairies

As I mentioned in my post on Disney’s Peter Pan, the most popular conception of fairies is that of tiny people with wings, but not all fairy lore uses this idea. In fact, it appears to be a relatively recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Fairy Tales, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged fairies, fairyland, glinda, lurline, ozma, ozma of oz, the emerald city of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost princess of oz, the road to oz, the shaggy man of oz, the tin woodman of oz |