Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

by Gregory, Lady

• ISBN13: 9780901072368
• ISBN10: 0901072362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd

Summary

This material collected over a period of more than twenty years proved to be a valuable source not only for Gregory's own plays but also for Yeats' work. A classic, it presents many aspects of the supernatural seers, healers, charms, banshees, forths

Table of Contents

Foreword	5	(4)
Elizabeth Coxhead
Preface	9	(6)
Sea Stories	15	(16)
Seers and Healers	31	(49)
Biddy Early	31	(19)
Mrs. Sheridan	50	(13)
Mr. Saggerton	63	(6)
``A Great Warrior in the Business''	69	(4)
Old Deruane	73	(7)
The Evil Eye---the Touch---the Penalty	80	(24)
Away	104	(44)
Herbs, Charms, and Wise Women	148	(14)
Astray, and Treasure	162	(8)
Banshees and Warnings	170	(10)
In the Way	180	(5)
The Fighting of the Friends	185	(5)
The Unquiet Dead	190	(12)
Appearances	202	(45)
Butter	247	(3)
The Fool of the Forth	250	(5)
Forths and Sheoguey Places	255	(19)
Blacksmiths	274	(2)
Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts	276	(19)
Friars and Priest Cures	295	(42)
Two essays and notes
W. B. Yeats
Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore	302	(15)
Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places	317	(20)
Notes	337