Searching for some good British Isles fairy myths

[Healy]

Does anybody know where I can find some good British Isle fairy myths? I'm not talking about the namby-pamby style fairies that like to sprinkle pixie dust over kittens; I mean the older, meaner style of fairy that liked to steal children and mess up houses and such. Wikipedia doesn't seem to be much help here.

I'm doing for research for a project, which... might not amount to anything. But at least I'll get some kick-awesome tales about fairies out of the experience!

[todd]

You might want to look for Katharine Briggs' books on fairies (especially her "An Encyclopedia of Fairies" and "The Vanishing People"). They're well-informed and extremely helpful.

"An Encyclopedia of Fairies" even has an entry on Moddey Dhoo.

[UbiquitousDragon]

The Encyclopaedia Mythica has some of the more gritty myths, but probably not in the detail you're looking for ...

[breakfast]

The irish myth cycles have a lot of fairy lore in them, especially as the Tuatha De Danaan of the earlier myths have become the fairies by the later ones.

Otherwise Katharine Briggs is probably the best option, though she can be very hard to get hold of.