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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry / W. B. Yeats.
- 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
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5040-4733-8
- OCLC:
- 995357894
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