Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees Boggarts and other Folklore Creatures
‘When it comes to the world of fairies Katharine Briggs is the greatest authority by many a league, and this is the finest guide ever written.'
PHILIP PULLMAN
'Katharine Briggs's Dictionary is truly wonderful: vivid, witty, and full of a profound and generous knowledge that will thrill both children and adults. Spectacular.'
KATHERINE RUNDELL
In 2025 Fee illustrated a new edition of the late, great folklorists Katharine Briggs's short A-Z of folklore creatures.
Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980) was a British folklorist, scholar and author, recognised today as the most important archivist of British folktales. Over the course of her life, she published fourteen books, lectured widely and was president of The Folklore Society. Her books were read and used by contemporaries including J.R.R. Tolkien. The new edition was published with Octopus Books in collaboration with the Katharine Briggs Estate. From brownies to Shetland selkies, Cornish spriggans to Nuckelavee (the most horrid of monsters in all of Britain) Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies is a treasury of stories, songs and creatures passed down from one generation to the next.
