Next research stage

I have decided to continue looking into the idea of fairies. To start with i am going to look into fairies in history, hopefully i'll find out where the concept of fairies started and how to has developed.

To do this i have found some books which i think will help:

• Oxford dictionary of English Folklore - Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud
• Giants, Monsters and Dragons an Encyclopedia of Folklore, legend and myth - Carol Rose
• The Fairy Tale, the magic mirror of imagination - Steve Swann Jones 
• Explore Folklore - Bob Trubshaw
• Myth a very short introduction - Robert A. Segal

with these books i am hoping that at least one will lead me on the right lines to finding out where fairies started and how they developed in film and fantasy.