Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

by Yeats, William Butler

• ISBN13: 9780486269412
• ISBN10: 0486269418
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Treasury of 64 tales invites readers into the shadowy, twilight world of Celtic myth and legend. Mischievous fairy people, murderous giants, priests, devils, druidic spells and more. Stories include "The Soul Cages," "The Kildare Pooka," "The Black Lamb," "The Horned Women," "The Phantom Isle," "King O'Toole and His Goose," many more. Introduction and Notes by W. B. Yeats.

Table of Contents

THE TROOPING FAIRIES?
  The Fairies
  Frank Martin and the Fairies
  The Priest's Supper
  The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
  Teig O'Kane 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
CHANGELINGS?
  The Brewery of Egg-shells
  The Fairy Nurse
  Jamie Freel and the Young Lady
  The Stolen Child
THE MERROW?
  The Soul Cages
  Flory Cantillon's Funeral
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES?
  "The Lepracaun ; or, Fairy Shoemaker"
  Master and Man
  Far Darrig in Donegal
  The Piper and the Puca
  Daniel O'Rourke
  The Kildare Pooka
  How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee
  A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
  The Banshee of the MacCarthys
GHOSTS?
  A Dream
  Grace Connor
  A Legend of Tyrone
  The Black Lamb
  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
TYEER-NA-N-OGE-
  The Legend of O'Donoghue
  Rent-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's Daughters
  King O'Toole and his Goose
THE DEVIL-
  The Demon Cat
  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 Twelve Wild Geese
  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
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