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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
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- Creator
- edited and selected by W. B. Yeats
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- English
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- London : W. Scott ; New York : T. Whittaker, 1888
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- Physical Details
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- xviii, 326 pages ; 18 cm
- OCLC
- ocm07107777, ocm07107777
- First edition.
- Variant issue: series title on half title; errata slip inserted at p. [ix].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Wade, 2nd ed., 212
- 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 -- A 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 [i.e. leprechaun]; 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 woman -- The witches' excursion -- 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 neighbors -- The jackdaw -- The story of Conn-eda