Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (9780486269412)

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Treasury of 64 tales invites readers into the shadowy, twilight world of Celtic myth and legend. Mischievous fairy people, murderous giants, priests, devils, and druids star in such stories as "The Soul Cages," "The Black Lamb," "The Horned Women," "The Phantom Isle," and more. Introduction, Notes by W. B. Yeats. THE TROOPING FAIRIES? 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 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 The Banshee of the MacCarthys GHOSTS? A Dream Grace Connor A Legend of Tyrone The Black Lamb 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 TYEER-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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