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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry / W. B. Yeats.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Yeats, W. B., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fairy tales--Ireland.
Fairy tales.
Tales--Ireland.
Tales.
Folklore--Ireland.
Folklore.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media Inc., 2017.
Summary:
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, wailing banshees, ghosts, dangerous witches.
Contents:
Intro
Fairy and Folk Tales of theIrish 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 Soul Cages
Flory Cantillon's Funeral
The Solitary Fairies
The Lepracaun
or, Fairy Shoemaker
Master and Man
Far Darrig in Donegal
The Pooka
The Piper and the Puca
Daniel O'Rourke
The Kildare Pooka
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'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'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
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ISBN:
1-5040-4733-8
OCLC:
995357894

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