Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

selected and ed. with introduction, by W.B. Yeats. Twelve illustrations by James Torrance

W.B. Yeats

London, W. Scott

n.d.

Illustrations by James Torrance

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The trooping fairies: The Fairies; Frank Martin and the Faries; 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 -- Changelings: The Brewery of Egg-shells; The fairy nurse; Jamie Freel and the young lady; The stolen child -- The Merrow: The soul cages; Flory Cantillon's funeral -- The solitary fairies: The Lepracaun, or, Fairy shoemaker; Master and man; Far Darrig in Donegal; The Piper and the Puca; Daniel O'Rourke; The Kildare Pooka; How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee; A lamentation for the death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald; A banshee of the MacCarthys -- Ghosts: A dream; Grace Connor; A legend of Tyrone; The black lamb; The radient 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 CCountry); The horned women; The witches' escursion; 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's Daughters; King O'Toole and his goose -- The Devil: The demon cat; 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 twelve wild geese; 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.

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