Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry /
The spirits of Ireland come alive in this nineteenth-century collection of stories, songs, and poems selected and edited by Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats. Lose yourself in these supernatural tales of mischievous fairies, changelings, mysterious merrows, solitary leprechauns, shape-changing pookas, w...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry; Introduction; The Trooping Fairies; The Fairies; Frank Martin and the Fairies; The Priest's Supper; The Fairy Well of Lagnanay; Teig O'Kane (Tadhg O Cáthán) and the Corpse; Paddy Corcoran's Wife; Cusheen Loo; The White Trout; A Legend of Cong; The Fairy Thorn; The Legend of Knockgrafton; A Donegal Fairy; The Tropping Fairies; The Brewery of Egg-Shells; The Fairy Nurse; Jamie Freel and the Young Lady; The Stolen Child; The Trooping Fairies; The Soul Cages; Flory Cantillon's Funeral; The Solitary Fairies; The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker.
- Master and ManFar Darrig in Donegal; The Pooka; The Piper and the Puca; Daniel O'Rourke; The Kildare Pooka; The Solitary Fairies; How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee; A Lamentation; The Banshee of the Mac Carthys; Ghosts; A Dream; Grace Connor; A Legend of Tyrone; The Black Lamb; Song of the Ghost; The Radiant Boy; The Fate of Frank M'Kenna; Witches, Fairy Doctors; Bewitched Butter (Donegal); A Queen's County Witch; The Witch Hare; Bewitched Butter (Queen's County); The Horned Women; The Witches' Excursion; The Confessions of Tom Bourke; The Pudding Bewitched; T'yeer-na-n-Oge.
- The Legend of O'DonoghueRent-Day; Loughleagh (Lake of Healing); Hy-Brasail-The Isle of the Blest; The Phantom Isle; Saints, Priests; The Priest's Soul; The Priest of Coloony; The Story of the Little Bird; Conversion of King Laoghaire'sDaughters; King O'Toole and His Goose; The Devil; The Long Spoon; The Countess Kathleen O'Shea; The Three Wishes; Giants; The Giant's Stairs; A Legend of Knockmany; Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers; The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts; The Haughty Princess; The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla; Munachar and Manachar; Donald and His Neighbours; The Jackdaw.
- The Story of Conn-Eda Or, the GoldenApples of Lough Erne; Notes; Copyright.
