Originally published as Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1890.
Contents:
Introduction / William Butler Yeats -- 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 -- 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 Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker -- Master and Man -- Far Darrig in Donegal -- The Pooka -- The Piper and the Puca -- Daniel O'Rourke -- The Kildare Pooka -- The Banshee -- How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee -- A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald -- The Banshee of the Mac Carthys -- A Dream -- Grace Connor -- A Legend of Tyrone -- The Black Lamb -- Song of the Ghost -- The Radiant Boy -- The Fate of Frank M'Kenna -- 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 -- The Legend of O'Donoghue -- Rent Day -- Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) -- Hy-Brasail -- The Isle of the Blest -- The Phantom Isle -- 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 Demon Cat -- The Long Spoon -- The Countess Kathleen O'Shea -- The Three Wishes -- The Giant's Stairs -- A Legend of Knockmany -- The Twelve Wild Geese -- The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts -- The Haughty Princess -- The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla -- Munachar and Manachar -- Donald and His Neighbors -- The Jackdaw -- The Story of Conn-eda; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne.
Summary:
The leprechaun is one of the iconic symbols of Ireland. But for all the fantastical creature's popularity, the folk tales fromwhich he emerged are largely unknown. In this anthology the masterful poet W. B. Yeats has collected and collated the enthralling stories of the Irish peasantry. They have been carefully divided into categories ranging from ghost stories to tales of the devil to stories of witches and fairy doctors. The stories are just as moving as his poetry.
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