The Culprit Fay

Charles Montgomery Skinner was an American writer, editor, dramatic and art critic, mostly known as a collector and rewriter of North American folklore. He published collections of myths, legends, histories and oral narrative found inside the United States and across the world. As Skinner’s opinion, the writer’s task is in saving the folk traditions endangered by the age of America’s progress. “The Culprit Fay” is a fairy tale, entered in the collection “Myth and legends of our own land”. The touching story is about elves, who at the noon of night fly to the meeting, dedicated to passing of sentence one of them. The fay, forgetting his vestal vow, fell in love with an earthly maid… Start your familiar with American history and culture through the Skinner’ collection “Myth and legends of our own land”!