This article is about the folklore author. For other uses, see Thomas Keightley (disambiguation).
Thomas Keightley
Born
Thomas Keightley (1789-10-17)17 October 1789 Dublin, Ireland
Died
4 November 1872(1872-11-04) (aged 83)[1] Belvedere, London (Lesness Heath, Kent), England
Resting place
Erith Churchyard
Occupation
writer, folklorist, mythographer, historian
Nationality
British / Irish
Notable works
Fairy Mythology
Thomas Keightley (17 October 1789 – 4 November 1872) was an Irish writer known for his works on mythology and folklore, particularly Fairy Mythology (1828), later reprinted as The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People (1978, 2000, etc.).
Keightley was as an important pioneer in the study of folklore by modern scholars in the field. He was a "comparativist" folklore collector, drawing parallels between tales and traditions across cultures. A circumspect scholar, he did not automatically assume similar tales indicated transmission, allowing for the possibility that similar tales arose independently.
At the request of the educator Thomas Arnold, he authored a series of textbooks on English, Greek, and other histories, which were adopted at Arnold's Rugby School as well as other public schools.
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ThomasKeightley (17 October 1789 – 4 November 1872) was an Irish writer known for his works on mythology and folklore, particularly Fairy Mythology (1828)...
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and goblin, consider the words of the English historian and folklorist Thomas Keightly: The Kobold is exactly the same being as the Danish Nis, and Scottish...
or "son"), although critics noted the lack of supporting evidence. ThomasKeightley suggested a connection to Habundia or Dame Habonde, a goddess associated...
He did not acknowledge his debt satisfactorily in the estimation of ThomasKeightley, who voiced his complaint publicly, and soon published his own rival...
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-6910-1514-9 ThomasKeightley, Leonhard Schmitz (2010). The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy...
also serves as protection against fairies. For example, according to ThomasKeightley mortals could safely witness fairy rades (mounted processions held...
mountains, where they were supposed to appear near caves and caverns. ThomasKeightley (1870) describes the Dames Blanches as a type of Fée known in Normandy...
The tale resurfaced in the mid-Victorian period when the folklorist ThomasKeightley included it in The Fairy Mythology—its first publication in English...
be a genuine folktale, but rather a piece of fiction fabricated by ThomasKeightley. A number of other terms in Irish are used to denote a mermaid or sea-nymph...
blend from fairy mythology not originally attached to pixies; in 1850, ThomasKeightley noted that much of Devon pixie mythology may have originated from fairy...
burned into the ground by the dancing of elves. British folklorist ThomasKeightley noted that in Scandinavia in the early 19th century, beliefs persisted...
Elbegast, feature in other poems. According to a legend recorded by ThomasKeightley in 1850, King Goldemar was a kobold, a type of house spirit in Germanic...
teeth and skin, narrow eyes and a red nose. The tale was created by ThomasKeightley, who lifted the plot from one of the Grimms' collected tales (Deutsche...
n.d. pp. 175–196.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) ThomasKeightley (1828), The fairy mythology, Volume 2, W. H. Ainsworth...
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-6910-1514-9 ThomasKeightley, Leonhard Schmitz (2010). The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy...
Poetry. University of California Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-520-04404-3. ThomasKeightley (1896). The Mythology of ancient Greece and Italy. George Bell and...
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