Prof. Young publishes articles
ISI historian Simon Young will publish three articles relating to fairy belief in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland this summer. In Folklore – the UK’s premiere periodical in this field – Simon will discuss overlooked sources for the fairy faith in Yorkshire. In Studia Hibernica he will examine fairy swindlers at the time of the Great Famine in Ireland: the extraordinary men and women who pretended to be fairies for financial gain in difficult times and among credulous neighbors. Then, he will also publish a short piece in Notes and Queries (Oxford University Press) on Victorian fairies and, of all things, railways…