Scientist
Keightley, Thomas
Category: Scientist
Thomas Keightley (1789 – 1872) was a historian, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, who wrote works on mythology and folklore. He wrote a number of extremely useful and well researched books on the ‘terrestrial hierarchies’ - that is fairies, dwarfs, elves and so on and was an authority on many ancient myths and legends. He was particularly interested in how folk tales spread from country to country and also how similar tales and legends were to be found around the world in countries which had no cultural contact. Thus I have used his work as the basis for collecting myths, legends and explanations of this area.
References
- The Fairy Mythology 1870 - available online by Sacred Texts.
- Fairy Mythology (1850, 1870), The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People
Among his other books are:
- Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy
- Popular Tales and their transmission from one country to another
- History of Greece written at the request of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby, this is a series of text-books on English, Greek, and other histories. It was translated into modern Greek.
Observations
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- Barney and Betty Hill; the Girl at the Troll Dance
- Keightley, Thomas - Brown dwarfs
- Keightley, Thomas - Brownies
- Keightley, Thomas - Coal and gold
- Keightley, Thomas - Commentary on the Edda
- Keightley, Thomas - Djins
- Keightley, Thomas - Duegar
- Keightley, Thomas - Dwarfs and Bjergfolk
- Keightley, Thomas - Dwarfs and trolls
- Keightley, Thomas - Fee dancing
- Keightley, Thomas - Follets
- Keightley, Thomas - House elves
- Keightley, Thomas - Idyllen Volkssagen und legenden
- Keightley, Thomas - Miners seeing dwarfs
- Keightley, Thomas - Music weaves spells
- Keightley, Thomas - Nymphs and Nereides
- Keightley, Thomas - Portunes
- Keightley, Thomas - Preacher Bertholdt's sight of angels
- Keightley, Thomas - Rip van Winkle & Cliough na Cuddy
- Keightley, Thomas - Spirit beings
- Keightley, Thomas - Store Hedding Zealand
- Keightley, Thomas - Stromkarl
- Keightley, Thomas - The Elfdans
- Keightley, Thomas - The Elle woman
- Keightley, Thomas - The Elle-king's soldiers
- Keightley, Thomas - The Girl at the Troll Dance
- Keightley, Thomas - The hill people
- Keightley, Thomas - The Lars
- Keightley, Thomas - The myth of Iskrzycki
- Keightley, Thomas - The pranks of the Nis
- Keightley, Thomas - The Still people
- Keightley, Thomas - The Troll and Svead
- Keightley, Thomas - White Dwarfs
- Thomas Keightley – The Fairy Mythology - Bjergfolk
- Thomas Keightley – The Fairy Mythology - Hills ‘raised on red pillars’
- Thomas Keightley – The Fairy Mythology - The Legend of Bodedys. [This legend was oral ]
- Thomas Keightley – The Fairy Mythology – Elves and Celestial Music