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FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. EDITED AND SELECTED BY W. B. YEATS.
THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.
- LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE.
  - NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14th STREET.
- NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14th STREET.
INSCRIBED
- TO MY MYSTICAL FRIEND,
G. R.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
- Footnotes
FAIRY AND FOLK TALES.
THE TROOPING FAIRIES.
THE FAIRIES.
- WILLIAM ALLINGHAM.
FRANK MARTIN AND THE FAIRIES.
- WILLIAM CARLETON.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE PRIEST'S SUPPER.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
THE FAIRY WELL OF LAGNANAY.
TEIG O'KANE (TADHG O CÁTHÁN) AND THE CORPSE.[4]
- LITERALLY TRANSLATED FROM THE IRISH BY DOUGLAS HYDE.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
PADDY CORCORAN'S WIFE.
- William Carleton.
CUSHEEN LOO.
- TRANSLATED FROM THE IRISH BY J. J. CALLANAN.
THE WHITE TROUT; A LEGEND OF CONG.
- Footnotes
THE FAIRY THORN.
- An Ulster Ballad.
- SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.
THE LEGEND OF KNOCKGRAFTON.
- T. CROFTON CROCKER.
A DONEGAL FAIRY.
- LETITIA MACLINTOCK.
THE TROOPING FAIRIES.
CHANGELINGS.
THE BREWERY OF EGG-SHELLS.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
THE FAIRY NURSE.
- Footnote
JAMIE FREEL AND THE YOUNG LADY.
- A Donegal Tale.
- MISS LETITIA MACLINTOCK.
THE STOLEN CHILD.
- W. B. YEATS.
THE TROOPING FAIRIES
THE MERROW.
THE SOUL CAGES.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
FLORY CANTILLON'S FUNERAL.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES.
- Lepracaun. Cluricaun. Far Darrig.
THE LEPRACAUN; OR, FAIRY SHOEMAKER.
- WILLIAM ALLINGHAM.
- I.
- II.
- III.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
MASTER AND MAN.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
FAR DARRIG IN DONEGAL.
- MISS LETITIA MACLINTOCK.
THE POOKA.
THE PIPER AND THE PUCA.
- DOUGLAS HYDE.
DANIEL O'ROURKE.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
THE KILDARE POOKA. [13]
- PATRICK KENNEDY.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES.
- THE BANSHEE.
HOW THOMAS CONNOLLY MET THE BANSHEE.
- J. TODHUNTER.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
A LAMENTATION
- For the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight, of Kerry, who was killed in Flanders, 1642.
- FROM THE IRISH, BY CLARENCE MANGAN.
THE BANSHEE OF THE MAC CARTHYS.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
GHOSTS.
A DREAM.
- WILLIAM ALLINGHAM.
GRACE CONNOR.
- MISS LETITIA MACLINTOCK.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
A LEGEND OF TYRONE.
- ELLEN O'LEARY.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE BLACK LAMB. [18]
- LADY WILDE.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
SONG OF THE GHOST.
- ALFRED PERCIVAL GRAVES.
THE RADIANT BOY.
- MRS. CROW.
THE FATE OF FRANK M'KENNA.
- WILLIAM CARLETON.
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS.
BEWITCHED BUTTER (DONEGAL).
- MISS LETITIA MACLINTOCK.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
A QUEEN'S COUNTY WITCH [20]
- Footnote
THE WITCH HARE.
- MR. AND MRS. S. C. HALL.
BEWITCHED BUTTER (QUEEN'S COUNTY). [21]
- Footnotes
THE HORNED WOMEN. [25]
- LADY WILDE.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE WITCHES' EXCURSION. [27]
- PATRICK KENNEDY.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE CONFESSIONS OF TOM BOURKE.
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE PUDDING BEWITCHED.
- WILLIAM CARLETON.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
T'YEER-NA-N-OGE.
THE LEGEND OF O'DONOGHUE. [42]
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
RENT-DAY.
- Footnote
LOUGHLEAGH (LAKE OF HEALING). [44]
- Footnotes
HY-BRASAIL—THE ISLE OF THE BLEST.
THE PHANTOM ISLE.
- GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS. [51]
  - Footnote
- Footnote
SAINTS, PRIESTS.
THE PRIEST'S SOUL. [52]
- LADY WILDE.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE PRIEST OF COLOONY.
- W. B. YEATS.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE STORY OF THE LITTLE BIRD. [55]
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
CONVERSION OF KING LAOGHAIRE'S DAUGHTERS.
KING O'TOOLE AND HIS GOOSE.
- S. LOVER.
THE DEVIL.
THE DEMON CAT. [56]
- LADY WILDE.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE LONG SPOON. [57]
- PATRICK KENNEDY.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN O'SHEA. [61]
- Footnote
THE THREE WISHES.
- W. CARLETON.
GIANTS.
THE GIANT'S STAIRS. [62]
- T. CROFTON CROKER.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANY.
- WILLIAM CARLETON.
  - Footnotes
- Footnotes
KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS.
THE TWELVE WILD GEESE. [65]
- PATRICK KENNEDY.
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE LAZY BEAUTY AND HER AUNTS.
- PATRICK KENNEDY'S "FIRESIDE STORIES OF IRELAND."
THE HAUGHTY PRINCESS. [66]
- Footnote
THE ENCHANTMENT OF GEAROIDH IARLA.
- Footnotes
MUNACHAR AND MANACHAR.
- TRANSLATED LITERALLY FROM THE IRISH BY DOUGLAS HYDE.
DONALD AND HIS NEIGHBOURS.
- From Hibernian Tales. [69]
  - Footnote
- Footnote
THE JACKDAW.
THE STORY OF CONN-EDA; OR, THE GOLDEN APPLES OF LOUGH ERNE. [70]
Translated from the original Irish of the Story-teller, Abraham McCoy, by Nicholas O'Kearney.
- Footnotes
NOTES.
- Gods of the Earth.—Par. 2, Page 2.
- Sir Samuel Ferguson.—Pages 13 and 38.
- Cusheen Loo.—Page 33.
- Legend of Knockgrafton.—Page 40.
- Stolen Child.—Page 59.
- Solitary Fairies.—Page 80.
- Banshee's Cry.—Page 108.
- Omens.—Page 108.
- A Witch Trial.—Page 146.
- T'yeer-na-n-Oge.—Page 200.
- The Gonconer or Gancanagh [Gean-canach].—Page 207.
- Father John O'Hart.—Page 220.
- Shoneen and Sleiveen.—Page 220.
- Demon Cat.—Page 229.
- A Legend of Knockmany.—Page 266.
- Some Authorities on Irish Folk-Lore.
  - Transcriber's Note
- Transcriber's Note

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