Project Gutenberg 2006-03-05 Public domain in the USA. 251 MacRitchie, David 1851 1925 Fians, Fairies and Picts Reading ease score: 67.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Ted Garvin, Taavi Kalju, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net "Fians, Fairies and Picts" by David MacRitchie is a historical and folkloric treatise written in the late 19th century. The work investigates the interrelation among the Fians, Fairies, and Picts, suggesting that these entities may historically represent the same or closely related peoples. Through an examination of folklore, archaeology, and historical accounts, the book seeks to bridge the mythical interpretations of fairies and fabled races with tangible historical narratives about ancient peoples in Scotland. The opening of the treatise lays a foundation for MacRitchie's argument by introducing the reader to key concepts from the works of other scholars, particularly J.F. Campbell. The text begins with a discussion of the importance of understanding folklore as a potentially factual recounting of history, rather than purely mythical tales. MacRitchie explores the notion that the Picts may have been a physically diminutive race living in subterranean dwellings, commonly identified with the fairies in popular tradition. He presents a robust framework for examining how cultural beliefs can evolve over time, blurring the lines between fact and legend, and sets out to convey that remnants of these beliefs could offer significant insight into the social history of early inhabitants of the British Isles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Folklore -- Great Britain Fairies -- Great Britain Picts Great Britain -- Antiquities Scotland -- Antiquities DA GR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General 180055 180165 2024-10-08T05:33:31.576992 2023-09-08T07:42:51.556063 text/html text/html 178323 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4413613 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 4728377 2024-10-08T05:33:41.836945 application/epub+zip 4718616 2024-10-08T05:33:35.693984 application/epub+zip 132667 2024-10-08T05:33:33.820953 application/epub+zip 4998688 2024-10-08T05:33:45.941891 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4974049 2024-10-08T05:33:39.902937 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 239437 2022-09-08T13:46:47.186981 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 137182 2024-10-08T05:33:30.738982 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 137058 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 53779 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 136971 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 53709 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 136981 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 53631 2006-03-05T12:11:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23884 2024-10-08T05:33:46.105890 application/rdf+xml 15294 2024-10-08T05:33:34.400977 image/jpeg 4321 2024-10-08T05:33:34.110965 image/jpeg 4567288 2024-10-08T05:33:31.714998 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia