Sources from Episode 176

  1. “The Lucaria: Honouring the Gods of the Grove,” History and Archaeology Online, July 2019, https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/the-lucaria-honouring-the-gods-of-the-grove.

  2. Bord, Janet. Fairies: Real Encounters with Little People. London: Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2013. Kindle Edition.

  3. George, Andrew, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

  4. Kuusela, Tommy. “Skogsrå and Huldra: The Femme Fatale of the Scandinavian Forests.” Folklore Thursday. 7/16/2020. https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/skogsra-and-huldra-the-femme-fatale-of-the-scandinavian-forests.

  5. Kuusela, Tommy. “Spirited Away by the Female Forest Spirit in Swedish Folk Belief.” Folklore 131 (June 2020), 159-79.

  6. Łaskiewicz, Weronika. “Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction.” Mythlore 36, n. 1 (Fall/Winter 2017), 39-58.

  7. Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. London: Routledge, 1991.

  8. Liliequist, Jonas. “Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and Interaction.” In Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology: Demons, Spirits, and Witches. Volume 2. Edited by Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs. 152-69. Budapest: CEU Press, 2006.

  9. Lindow, John. Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  10. Lindow, John. Swedish Legends and Folktales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

  11. MacManus, D.A. The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smyth Ltd., 1979.

  12. Porteous, Alexander. The Forest in Folklore and Mythology. Mineola: Dover Publications, 2002. Original publication: New York: Macmillan, 1928.

  13. Sanders, N.K. “The Epic of Gilgamesh.” http://www.aina.org/books/eog/eog.htm.

  14. Zipes, Jack. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

  15. Caroline Howard King, When I lived in Salem, 1822-1866 (Stephen Date Press, 1937), pp. 203-208.