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FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1888 · PUBLIC DOMAIN

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

W. B. Yeats (ed.)

38 CHAPTERS · 115,934 WORDS · ABOUT 437 MINUTES

Yeats's own anthology of the Irish tellers, arranged by kind — the trooping fairies, changelings, the merrow, the solitary fairies, ghosts, witches and fairy doctors. Where Teig O'Kane, Jamie Freel, the Kildare pooka and the soul cages come from.

SUBJECTSIrelandFairy legendChangelingsGhosts
TAGS#ireland#yeats#changelings#merrow#puca#banshee
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CONTENTS

  1. 1NOTES 31928 MIN
  2. 2TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4] — part 111 MIN
  3. 3TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4] — part 211 MIN
  4. 4TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4] — part 312 MIN
  5. 5TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4] — part 411 MIN
  6. 6TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4] — part 511 MIN
  7. 7THE TROOPING FAIRIES27 MIN
  8. 8III.31 MIN
  9. 9THE KILDARE POOKA.[13]10 MIN
  10. 10A LAMENTATION11 MIN
  11. 11"MY DEAREST MARY,1 MIN
  12. 12"ANN MAC CARTHY."1 MIN
  13. 13"DEAR ELLEN,14 MIN
  14. 14THE BLACK LAMB.[18]20 MIN
  15. 15A QUEEN'S COUNTY WITCH[20]6 MIN
  16. 16BEWITCHED BUTTER (QUEEN'S COUNTY).[21]13 MIN
  17. 17THE HORNED WOMEN.[25]3 MIN
  18. 18THE WITCHES' EXCURSION.[27] — part 112 MIN
  19. 19THE WITCHES' EXCURSION.[27] — part 212 MIN
  20. 20THE WITCHES' EXCURSION.[27] — part 312 MIN
  21. 21THE WITCHES' EXCURSION.[27] — part 410 MIN
  22. 22THE LEGEND OF O'DONOGHUE.[42]7 MIN
  23. 23LOUGHLEAGH (LAKE OF HEALING).[44]9 MIN
  24. 24GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS.[51]2 MIN
  25. 25THE PRIEST'S SOUL.[52]9 MIN
  26. 26THE STORY OF THE LITTLE BIRD.[55]9 MIN
  27. 27THE DEMON CAT.[56]2 MIN
  28. 28THE LONG SPOON.[57]2 MIN
  29. 29THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN O'SHEA.[61] — part 112 MIN
  30. 30THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN O'SHEA.[61] — part 212 MIN
  31. 31THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN O'SHEA.[61] — part 311 MIN
  32. 32THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN O'SHEA.[61] — part 43 MIN
  33. 33THE GIANT'S STAIRS.[62]26 MIN
  34. 34THE TWELVE WILD GEESE.[65]9 MIN
  35. 35PATRICK KENNEDY'S "FIRESIDE STORIES OF IRELAND."6 MIN
  36. 36THE HAUGHTY PRINCESS.[66]4 MIN
  37. 37BY PATRICK KENNEDY.[67]18 MIN
  38. 38THE STORY OF CONN-EDA; OR, THE GOLDEN APPLES OF LOUGH ERNE.[70]29 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #33887). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.