Fairyology
Fairyology is the study of fairies or fairy lore. The term was used for the first time in the mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Ainsworth's Magazine.
This word is formed by the English word fairy , and the ancient Greek λόγος, logos, which signified study. The word fairy in English is a generic term that is used to designate all the faery beings, spirits of nature, elementals, etc., of all types, for example, pixies, goblins, elves, gnomes, nains, trolls, giants, even in some form the wild men, although the above-mentioned also might be framed like objects of study of cryptozoology.
The term fairyology can be used indistinctly with elficology, which also designates the study of the creatures of the mythologies and folklores of all the world, and that was invented by the French Pierre Dubois in the year 1968.
Fairyology is a word used for serious study related to the world of fae.
The people who are engaged in fairyology are called fairyologists. One could cite as important contemporary fairyologists the British writers Anna Franklin, Brian Froud, Theresa Bane, Lucy Cooper, etc.
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References
- "Fairyology" Archived 2016-03-16 at the Wayback Machine oxforddictionaries.com
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1842). Ainsworth's Magazine. Chapman and Hall. p. 185. Search this book on
- Theresa Bane (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-4766-1242-3. Search this book on
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