The Brownies, drawn by Palmer Cox, are almost unknown to anyone younger than 80 today, but they were favorites of children from 1883 into the 1930s. The Brownies were tiny fairies, all male, who each ...

Fairies, brownies, gnomes, elves and hobbits live in the Enchanted Garden in Poway, and many of them have fanciful stories about their lives and livelihoods. Those stories are usually told by their ...

The Graces didn’t expect fairies, brownies and dumbwaiters that led to hidden rooms with field guides to magical creatures, when they moved into their family estate in the country. When Jarod, the ...

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This illustrated guide to fairies from mythology and folklore, drawn from cultures all over the world, explores their origin stories and diverse iterations. Caroline Sanderson is a non-fiction writer, ...

The excitement surrounding the end of February has been principally related to it being Shrove Tuesday; a pancake-eating opportunity. However, for the brownies group (a Girl Guiding organization) at ...