Does anyone know of a good research resource for fairy lore?

[Jemini]

Traditionally, fairies live in boulders and kill people for messing with them.

Traditionally, fairies don't like being called fairies.

Also, they live everywhere, and I do mean literally everywhere, not just in boulders.

(Also, currently studying the dictionary of fairies and I have yet to find such a story as the one you mentioned.)

 

[CarburetorThompson]

You won’t find a better video than this. This podcast is run by two different phd level historians and certified bri’ish people

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

(Or rather, it gave something fairly close to the classical lore answer. The truth is, the classical lore on the difference between a goblin and a hobgoblin indicates absolutely no morphological difference, and in fact it seems very much as though they are the same thing with the only difference being that goblins are unequivocally mischivous at best to malicious at worst, where as hobgoblins are generally mischivous but not outright malicious, and could even be friendly. For the most part, the impression I get is that if they're malicious, then they're a goblin. If not, they're a hobgoblin.)

Oh, wow, I didn't know that. Glad this helped!

 

[QuercusMalus]

I do searches narrowing down the region so like 'Fae creatures of Scotland'.

This got me a few links and sources with about 40 critters, some well known but a few pretty obscure ones.

But I think the Ghillie Dhu might work for the fae you want.

List of Scottish Mythical Beasts & Monsters in Gaelic folklore

A brief overview of some of the weird and wonderful Scottish mythical beasts & monsters from Scotland's folklore.

www.livebreathescotland.com

List of Scottish Mythical Creatures: 55 Legendary Monsters and Folklore Tales

A huge list of Scottish mythical creatures and legendary monsters. Famous Scottish folktales, from Kelpies and Selkies, to Scottish Big Cats and fairies straight from your fairy tales. Scotland's most famous mythical creature of all, The Loch Ness Monster.

aaronmullins.com