29/01/2021
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This is the perfect book to lose yourself in during these frosty January days. It is the ideal companion to snuggly blankets, and steaming mugs to tea.
The author Kenny Klein is a folk and country musician, and it is through his knowledge of traditional folk ballads and folklore that he came to write Through the Faerie Glass.
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He built together predominantly Celtic and old British tales to paint the fae and otherworldly inhabitants as understood prior to the modern meddling which lead to their now cleaned up image of flower fairies and Tinkerbell.
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Traditional fae or ’The Good Folk’ were not small winged creatures, but human sized, and generally with an appearance similar to any man/woman. They were more often responsible for bringing suffering to the humans they countered than assisting them. They could on occasion be romantic and steal a human away to their realm as a lover, or steal away sleeping babies from their cribs. Encounters with the fae generally did not lead to happy endings for those involved.
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Klein’s roots in folk music is what gave him the ability to tell these tales beautifully as a gifted storey-teller. He included lyrics to songs alongside retelling classic stories like those of Arthur & Merlin, Tam Lin, the selkies & banshees, The Wild Hunt, Mab, and more.
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The book flows gently like a casual conversation. You can easily imagine yourself sitting fire side in a small local listening to him entertain the regulars with storeys and song. Time disappears as you read, you are lulled away into the magick of the past.
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The best advice, which Klein frequently gave, is to just leave the fae well alone. However I just can’t, I will always seek to prance in the faerie dust......It's just my nature.
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