background reading

I've hit the section in the Purkiss book about Elizabethan English attitudes to fairies, which is where I really need to start paying attention. The first couple of pages of this section support some of the underpinning with regard to why the Bad Guy has been collecting fairy artefacts/lore/acquaintanceship before going on to collect an actual fairy -- by the time we get to Elizabethan England (as opposed to Scotland) it's all about the hard cash. Fairies have *gold*, and ways of acquiring more gold... Also some useful comments about Auberon/Oberon, which I may want towards the end of the manuscript.