These notes give sources for the stories discussed in each chapter, and for quotation from works of modern literature. I have added the URLs where texts are available online. Since sources are discussed in broad terms, the numbers below, to the left of the page, relate to pages rather than specific quotations or references.
THE LAND OVER TIME
14 ‘How Far is it to Shrewsbury?’, Shropshire Folklore: A Sheaf of Gleanings, from the Collections of Georgina F. Jackson, ed. Charlotte Burne (Wakefield, 1973)
15 ‘Finn Mac Cooilley and the Buggane’, Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairytales (London, 1911); www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/sm1911/p042.htm (Oxford, 1988)
18 Edward Haymes, The Saga of Thidrek of Bern (New York, 1988)
18 Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde and ‘The Merchant’s Tale’, in Riverside Chaucer, ed. L.M. Benson (Oxford, 1988)
20 ‘Bran the Blessed’, The Mabinogion, trans. Sioned Davies (Oxford, 2008)
20 ‘Grendel’s Ancestry’, Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (London, 1999)
21 ‘Origin of the British Giants’, Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth, 1966)
21 ‘The Giant of Carn Galva’, in William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of Cornwall (Penzance, 1870); http://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/swc1/swc104.htm
23 ‘The Giant Bolster’, Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, 3rd edn (London, 1881); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe019.htm
23 Ywain and Gawain; Sir Percyvell of Gales; the Anturs of Arther, ed. Maldwyn Mills and Malcolm Andrew (London, 1992)
25 Oscar Wilde, ‘The Selfish Giant’, The Happy Prince and Other Stories, in The Complete Works, 3rd edn (London, 1994)
27 T.A. Shippey, Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English (Cambridge, 1976)
28 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Bernard O’Donoghue (London, 2006)
31 Guthlac A in translation at http://anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu/guthlac-a
33 Neil Gaiman, ‘The Monarch of the Glen’, Fragile Things (London, 2007)
34 ‘The Wooing of Etáin’, Early Irish Myths and Sagas, trans. Jeffrey Gantz (Harmondsworth, 1981)
35 ‘Poem of Völund’, The Poetic Edda, 2nd edn, trans. Carolyne Larrington (Oxford, 2014)
43 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur, ed. Christopher Tolkien (London, 2013)
47 Malcolm Pryce, Aberystwyth Mon Amour (London, 2001)
LUST & LOVE
51 ‘Thomas the Rhymer’ (Child 37), The English and Scottish Ballads, ed. F.J. Child (Boston, 1857), 4 vols; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch037.htm
54 The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, ed. James Murray (London, 1875); https://archive.org/details/romanceprophecie00thomuoft
58 ‘Tam Lin’ (Child 39); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch039.htm
60 Liz Lochhead, ‘Tam Lin’, The Grimm Sisters (London, 1981)
61 Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock (London, 1985)
63 ‘Sir Degaré’, Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (Kalamazoo, 1995); http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays
64 ‘The Elfin Knight’ (Child 2); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch002.htm
66 ‘Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight (Child 3); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch004.htm
68 Christina Rossetti, ‘Goblin Market’, Goblin Market and Other Poems (Cambridge, 1862); www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174262
72 ‘The Adventure of Cherry of Zennor’, Hunt, Popular Romances; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7133820M/Popular_romances_of_the_west_of_England
74 Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Tale of Sir Thopas’, Riverside Chaucer
76 ‘Sir Launfal’, in Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Laskaya and Salisbury; http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays
76 John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’; www.bartleby.com/126/55.html
78 ‘A Wife to Sandy Harg’, in R.H. Cromek, Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (Paisley, 1880); https://archive.org/details/remainsnithsdal00gillgoog
79 ‘The Miller’s Wife of Menstrie’, in Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill, The Lore of Scotland: a Guide to Scottish Legends (London, 2009), pp. 95–6
80 ‘Sir Orfeo’, in Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Laskaya and Salisbury; http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays
83 Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (London, 2004) Death & Loss
87 For a good collection of Black Shuck legends, see www.hiddenea.com/shuckland/introduction.htm
88 ‘The Black Dog of Bungay’, Abraham Fleming, A Straunge and Terrible Wunder wrought very late in the Parish Church of Bongay …. the fourth of this August 1577, in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder … With the appearance of a horrible-shaped Thing, sensibly perceived of the people then and there assembled (London, 1577)
91 Augustus Hare, In My Solitary Life: Being an Abridgement of the Last Three Volumes of the Story of My Life (London, 1953)
91 Black Dog video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc
92 ‘The Moddey Doo’, Morrison, Manx Fairytales; www.isle-of-man.com/manxnote-book/fulltext/sm1911/index.htm
93 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (London and New York, 1902); www.literature.org/authors/doyle-arthur-conan/hound
97 ‘The Wisht Hounds’, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of the West, vol. 1: Devon (London, 1900); https://archive.org/details/bookofwest01bari
99 Walter Map, De nugis curialium (Courtiers’ Trifles), ed. and trans. M.R. James, Christopher Brookes and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford, 1983)
100 ‘Oisin’s Return’, Thomas Rolleston, Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (London, 1911); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mlcr/index.htm
102 ‘The Devil and his Dandy Dogs’, Hunt, Popular Romances; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7133820M/Popular_romances_of_the_west_of_England
103 ‘Gabriel-Hounds’, F.K. Robinson, A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby (London, 1875), p. 74
104 ‘Herne the Hunter’, William Ainsworth, Windsor Castle (London, 1842; repr. 1853)
105 Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising (London, 1973), p. 197
106 ‘The Black Lad of MacCrimmon’, James McDougall, Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English (Edinburgh, 1910), pp. 174–9; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24829667M/Folk_tales_and_fairy_lore_in_Gaelic_and_English
107 ‘The Banshee and Kavanagh’, Thomas Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (London, 1834); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/flat/flat17.htm
108 ‘The Death of Cú Chulainn’, Lady Augusta Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (London, 1902); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cuch/lgc23.htm
112 On the undead, see John Blair, ‘The Dangerous Dead in Early Medieval England’, Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter, Catherine Karkov et al. (Aldershot, 2009), pp. 539–59
115 ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’ (Child 79); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch079.htm
117 ‘The Unquiet Grave’ (Child 78); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch078.htm
117 ‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ (Aarne-Thompson Tale Type 365), Hunt, Popular Romances; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7133820M/Popular_romances_of_the_west_of_England
GAIN & LACK
124 ‘Billy Biter and the Parkin’, Ruth L. Tongue, ‘Billy Biter and the Parkin: A Yorkshire Folk-Tale Recovered from a Somerset Stable’, Folklore 78 (1967): 137–41
126 ‘The Black Dog of Lyme Regis’, J.S. Udal, Dorsetshire Folklore (Hertford, 1922)
127 Geraldine McCaughrean, The Stones are Hatching (Oxford, 1999), pp. 133, 153
129 ‘The Lambton Worm’, Jacqueline Simpson, ‘Fifty Dragon Tales: An Analysis’, Folklore 89 (1978): 79–93
130 ‘Dragon of Knucker Hole’, Jennifer Westwood, Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (London, 1985), pp. 94–6
135 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again (London, 1937), ch. 14
136 ‘St Carantoc and the Dragon’, Katharine Briggs, A Sampler of British Folk-Tales (London, 2002), pp. 144–5
138 ‘Trenwith and the Knockers’, Hunt, Popular Romances; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe032.htm
138 ‘The Fairy Woman of Sanntraigh’, J.F. Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands vol 2. (Paisley, 1890); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt210.htm
140 ‘Dunvuilg is on fire!’, Campbell, Popular Tales, vol. 2; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt212.htm
141 ‘Borrowing Oatmeal’, Campbell, Popular Tales, vol. 2; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt213.htm
141 ‘Tale from Harris’, Campbell, Popular Tales, vol. 2; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt217.htm
143 ‘Brownie of East Halton’, Peter Binnall, ‘A Brownie Legend from Lincolnshire’, Folklore 51 (1940): 219–22
143 ‘The Fynodyree’, Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales; www.isle-of-man.com/manxnote-book/fulltext/sm1911/p048.htm
144 ‘The Hob of Hart Hall’, J.C. Atkinson, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish: Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in Cleveland (London, 1891); https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6997155M/Forty_years_in_a_moorland_parish
145 ‘Brownie of Cranshaws’, Robert Chambers, The Picture of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1827); Westwood, Albion, pp. 357–8
149 ‘Ay, we’re flittin’, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology (London, 1892); www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm
150 ‘Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach’, W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book (London, 1907); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/wfb/wfb03.htm
154 A.S.Byatt, Possession (London, 1990)
155 ‘The Wedding of Sir Gawayne and Dame Ragnell’, Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. Thomas Hahn (Kalamazoo, 1995); http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/hahn-sir-gawain
159 ‘The Awntyrs off Arthur’, Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances; http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/hahn-sir-gawain
THE BEAST & THE HUMAN
164 ‘The Grateful Selkie’, Walter Traill Dennison, An Orcadian Sketchbook (Kirkwall, 1880)
166 ‘Ursilla’, Dennison, Orcadian Sketchbook; G.F. Black, County Folklore III: Examples of Printed Folklore Concerning the Orkney and Shetland Islands (London, 1903); https://archive.org/stream/countyfolklore03folkuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
168 ‘The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie’ (Child 113); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch113.htm
169 ‘The Goodman of Wastness’, Black, County Folklore III; https://archive.org/stream/countyfolklore03folkuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
172 ‘The Droll of the Mermaid’, Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories
173 ‘Mermaid of Gob Ny Ooyl, Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales; www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/sm1911/p071.htm
174 ‘Laird of Lorntie’, Robert Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland (London, 1870), https://archive.org/details/popularrhymesofs00chamrich
175 ‘Clerk Colvill’ (Child 42); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch042.htm
176 Julia Blackburn, The Leper’s Companions (London, 1999), p. 63
178 ‘Oisín’s Mother’, Rolleston, Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mlcr/mlcr06.htm
180 ‘Oisín and the Pig-Headed Princess’, Jeremiah Curtin, Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland (Boston, 1890); www.pitt.edu/~dash/oisin.html
181 ‘The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh’, Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy-Tales (London, 1890); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft34.htm
183 ‘Kemp Owyne’ (Child 34); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch034.htm
185 ‘The Wolf of Ossory’, The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis, trans. Thomas Wright (London, 1894); https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7038028M/The_historical_works_of_Giraldus_Cambrensis
187 ‘Bisclavret’, The Lais of Marie de France, trans. Glyn Burgess and Keith Busby (London 2011); translated by Judith Shoaf at www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jshoaf/Marie/bisclavret.pdf
189 ‘Arthur and Gorlagon’, http://ebooks.gutenberg.us/WorldeBookLibrary.com/artgorlg.htm
189 ‘The Witch-Hare of Tavistock’, Westwood, Albion, p. 30
190 ‘The Witch-Hare of Yorkshire’, Atkinson, Forty Years; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6997155M/Forty_years_in_a_moorland_parish
191 ‘The Parliament of Hares’, http://justine-picardie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/parliament-of-hares-and-downpour-of.html; Briggs, Sampler, pp. 295–6
193 ‘The Water-Horse’, J.F. Campbell, Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900), pp. 206–15; https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13842132M/Superstitions_of_the_Highlands_and_Islands_of_Scotland
195 ‘The Laird of Morphie’, George Douglas, Scottish Fairy and Folk-Tales (London, 1901); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft55.htm
196 ‘The Kelpie of Conan’, Douglas, Scottish Fairy and Folk-Tales; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft54.htm
197 ‘The Nuckelavee’, Douglas, Scottish Fairy and Folk-Tales; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft61.htm
CONTINUITY & CHANGE
200 ‘The Wizard of Alderley Edge’, William Axon, Cheshire Gleanings (Manchester, 1884); www.pitt.edu/~dash/sleep.html#alderley
201 ‘Potter Thompson’, Eliza Gutch, County Folk-Lore II: Examples of Printed Folklore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty (London, 1901); www.pitt.edu/~dash/sleep.html#richmond
204 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Bernard O’Donoghue
204 Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (London, 1960); The Moon of Gomrath (London, 1963); Boneland (London, 2012); Thursbitch (London, 2003)
205 ‘The Green Children’, Edwin Hartland, English Fairy and Other Folk Tales (London, 1890); www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/efft32.htm
212 ‘Midwife to the Fairies’, Westwood, Albion, pp. 160–1
213 ‘Sir Launfal’, in Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Laskaya and Salisbury; http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays
213 ‘Midwife and Meal-Chest’, Briggs, Sampler, p. 164
213 ‘Eilian and the Tylwyth Teg’, John Rhys, Celtic-Folklore: Welsh and Manx, vol. I (Oxford, 1901), p. 213; www.sacred-texts.com/neu/cfwm/cf107.htm
215 ‘The Fairies’ Nurse in Nithsdale’, Keightley, Fairy Mythology; www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm#Page_127
216 ‘Brewery of Eggshells’, Croker, Fairy Legends; www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html#Brewery
217 ‘Johnnie in the Cradle’, Briggs, Sampler, pp. 161–2; http://plover.net/~agarvin/faerie/story/johnnie.html
218 Irvine Welsh, The Acid House (London, 1994)
219 ‘Sir Gowther’, in Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Laskaya and Salisbury; http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/publication/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays
224 ‘Wodwo’, Ted Hughes, Wodwo (London, 1967)
225 ‘The Green Man’, Brandon Centerwall, ‘The Name of the Green Man’, Folklore 108 (1997): 25–33; Julia, Lady Raglan, ‘The Green Man in Church Architecture’, Folklore 50 (1939): 45–57
226 ‘The Jack-in-the-Green’, Roy Judge, The Jack-in-the-Green 2nd edn (London, 2000)
228 Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (London, 1969), pp. 129, 198
229 John Gordon, The Giant under the Snow (London, 1968)
231 ‘The Green Man in Hamsterley Forest’, https://thecompanyofthegreenman.wordpress.com/category/green-man-miscellaneous