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FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats
LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE;
NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14TH STREET. |
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Inscribed
to my mystical friend
G. R |
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Contents |
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| Introduction |
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| The Trooping Fairies |
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"The Fairies" [William Allingham]
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Frank Martin and the Fairies [William Carleton]
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The Priest’s Supper [T. Crofton Croker]
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The Fairy Well Of Lagnanay, By Samuel Ferguson]
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Teig O'Kane (Tadhg O Cáthán) and the Corpse, tr. [Douglas Hyde]
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Paddy Corcoran’s Wife [William Carleton]
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Cusheen Loo, tr. [J. J. Callanan]
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The White Trout; A Legend of Cong [S. Lover]
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The Fairy Thorn, An Ulster Ballad [Sir Samuel Ferguson]
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The Legend of Knockgrafton [T. Crofton Croker]
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A Donegal Fairy [Letitia Maclintock]
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| Changelings |
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Changelings]
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The Brewery of Egg-Shells [T. Crofton Croker]
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The Fairy Nurse [Edward Walsh]
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Jamie Freel and the Young Lady, A Donegal Tale [Miss Letitia Maclintock]
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The Stolen Child [W. B. Yeats]
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| The Merrow |
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The Soul Cages [T. Crofton Croker]
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Flory Cantillon’s Funeral [T. Crofton Croker]
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| The Solitary Fairies |
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Lepracaun. Cluricaun. Far Darrig.]
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The Lepracaun; Or Fairy Shoemaker [William Allingham]
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Master and Man [T. Crofton Croker]
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Far Darrig in Donegal [Letitia Maclintock]
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| The Pooka |
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The Pooka]
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The Piper and the Puca [Douglas Hyde]
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Daniel O'Rourke [T. Crofton Croker]
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The Kildare Pooka [Patrick Kennedy]
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| The Banshee |
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How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee [J. Todhunter]
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A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, tr. [Clarence Mangan]
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The Banshee of the Mac Carthys [T. Crofton Croker]
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| Ghosts |
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A Dream [William Allingham]
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Grace Connor [Letitia Maclintock]
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A Legend of Tyrone [Ellen O'Leary]
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The Black Lamb [Lady Wilde]
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Song of the Ghost [Alfred Percival Graves]
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The Radiant Boy [Mrs. Crow]
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The Fate of Frank M'Kenna [William Carleton]
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| Witches, Fairy Doctors |
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Bewitched Butter (Donegal) [Letitia Maclintock]
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A Queen’s County Witch]
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The Witch Hare [Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall]
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Bewitched Butter (Queen’s County)]
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The Horned Women [Lady Wilde]
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The Witches' Excursion [Patrick Kennedy]
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The Confessions of Tom Bourke [T. Crofton Croker]
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The Pudding Bewitched [William Carleton]
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| Tír-na-n-Og. |
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The Legend Of O'Donoghue [T. Crofton Croker]
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Rent-day]
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Loughleagh (Lake Of Healing)]
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Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest [Gerald Griffin]
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The Phantom Isle [Giraldus Cambrensis]
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| Saints, Priests |
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The Priest’s Soul [Lady Wilde]
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The Priest of Coloony]
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The Story of the Little Bird [T. Crofton Croker]
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Conversion Of King Laoghair’s Daughters]
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King O'Toole And His Goose [S. Lover]
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| The Devil |
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The Demon Cat [Lady Wilde]
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The Long Spoon [Patrick Kennedy]
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The Countess Kathleen O’shea]
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The Three Wishes [W. Carleton]
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| Giants |
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The Giant’s Stairs [T. Crofton Croker]
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A Legend of Knockmany [William Carleton]
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| Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers |
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The Twelve Wild Geese [Patrick Kennedy]
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The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts [Patrick Kennedy]
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The Haughty Princess [Patrick Kennedy]
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The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla [Patrick Kennedy]
Munachar and Manachar, tr. [Douglas Hyde]
Donald and his Neighbours]
The Jackdaw]
The Story of Conn-eda, or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne [Abraham M'Coy, tr. Nicholas O'Kearney]
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Notes
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Gods of the Earth
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Sir Samuel Ferguson
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Cusheen Loo
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Legend of Knockgrafton
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Stolen Child
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Solitary Fairies
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Banshee’s Cry
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Omens
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A Witch Trial
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T'yeer-na-n-Oge
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The Ganconer or Gancanagh]
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Father John O'Hart]
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Shoneen and Sleiveen]
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Demon Cat]
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A Legend of Knockmany
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Some Authorities On Irish Folk-Lore
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