Fairies and fae and the like

[ratherastory]

Hey flist,

Anyone here know what they're talking about WRT fairies/the fae/etc? I am looking for some good reference books (or websites, that works too) that can give me more than a bare-bones overview of the various different types of small folk out there. The whole seelie/unseelie thing, everything from brownies to the hierarchies in the courts. All that stuff that I sort of know about but only enough to get myself into trouble.

Help?

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[silverusagi]

There's also An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katharine Briggs, which doesn't present a whole picture because of the structure of the book, but it has an entry for about any type of fairy or fairy thing you want to look up. It's definitely more involved than a bare bones overview.