A
Ahern, Kate, 140
Ambrose's stone, 38
Ard Feis, 8
Armed Knight, the, 45
B
baptism and changelings, 174
Benandoner, 47
Bendyth y Mamau, 66
Blake, Colonel, 213–215, 225, 227–228
Blake, Evleen, 216–218, 224–228
Blight, Tamsin, 101
blood-drawing ghost, the, 154–162
“Book of Invasions,” 63
“Botathen Ghost, The,” 268
Breton folktale, excerpt from a, 148–152
“Brownie of the Black Haggs, The,” 232–250
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 209
burragh-boos. see love charms.
C
canwyll corph. see corpse candle.
“Caractacus,” 37
ceilidh-houses, 8
Celtic heritage, 99
Celtic lore, influence of, 12
Celtic shamans, 101, 104–105, 106
Celtic society, folktales and legends in, 97–99
changeling legends, Welsh, 173–180
charm
pick of thorns, 104
staunching blood, 105
toothache, 105
charms and spells, 211
children, fairies and human, 173–175
Christian
Christianity and the Celtic world, 85
Christianity, fairies and, 139–140
coach of the dead, the, 183–184
Coblynau, 68
Conn, 20
Cornish
Cornwall, 34
Corwrion Changeling Legend, 175–176
crick stone in Morva, 41
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 140
cromlech of Lanyon, 40
crossroads in Celtic lore, 148
Cruachan, Connal MacRig, 21–22, 86–93
Cruachan: The Place of the Sidhe, 19–32
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, excerpt from, 20–32
Curtin, Jeremiah, 154
D
dead returning to world of living, the, 251–252
death and the Celts, 153–154, 181
Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, A, excerpt from, 164–172
Devil's Inn, the, 212, 215, 227
Dracula, Count, 208
“Drolls, Traditions and Superstitions of Old Cornwall,” 48
“druid circles,” 33
Dynon Bach Teg, 67
E
Eminent Welshmen, 83
F
“Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland,” excerpt from, 140–146
fairies,
bodies of, 124
dress of, 124
general description of, 195–203
homes of, 127
in Irish folklore, the, 113–114
male, 125
names given to, 66
places of the, 20
social aspects of, 123
fairies and
humans as neighbors, 133
men of second sight, 197
and Men, contact between, 113–114
fairy brides and mortal men Welsh legends, 72–84
fairy kind, 63
in Ireland, 121
fairy ladies and mortal men, 69–72
Fairy Mythology, 65
fairy realm, questions about, 193
folktales and legends in Celtic society, 97–99
G
Garth Uchaf, Llanuwchllyn
Giants Causeway, the, 47
Gilbert, C.S., 39
Gors Goch Changeling Legend, The, 178–179
Gregory, Lady Augusta, 20, 114, 115
Gwyll, 67
H
Hawker, Reverend Robert Stephen, 268
Hogg, James, 232
I
invaders of the Celtic peoples, 53
Ireland, fairy kind in, 121
Irish mythology and the “good people,” 122
Irish Wonders, excerpt from, 122–131
iron and the fairy bride, 73, 75
J
Jones, Reverend Edmund, 188
K
King Arthur, 46
and the giants, 48
“King Arthur's Stone,” 46
Kirk, Reverend Robert, 193–195
L
Le Braz, Anatole, 182
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 208
“Legend of Knockgrafton, The,” 148
Llanfrothen Legend, The, 81
Llanfwrog Changeling Legend, 177–178
moving of the, 37
love charms, 210–211
Lovecraft, H.P., 207
M
Mabinogion, 17
Martin, Martin, 164
McAnally, Dr. David Rice, 122
McCumhaill, Fion, 47
McDonald, Angus, 54
“Men of the West,” 268
Merlin, Ambrose, 38
Midnight Washerwomen, 148
Mulholland, Rosa, 212
Muller, Max, 70
Myddfai Legend, The, 78
N
night dancers at the
“Not to Be Taken at Bedtime,” 212–229
“Notes on Y Tylwyth Teg,” excerpt from, 64
O
Observations on the Snowdon Mountains, 74, 75
ointment to see fairies, 133–134, 135
Otherworld, the, 181
as place of the dead, 251
Owen, Baron, 82
P
Pellings, 77
Pentrevoleas Legend, The, 72–75
Plant Annwfn, 67
Presbyterianism, 233
priest and the fairies, a, 145–146
prognostication and the Celts, 163, 187
R
“Relation of Ghosts and Apparitions, A” excerpt from, 188–192
Ring of Gyges, the, 200
Ring of Kingussie, 34
“Romances of the Rocks,” excerpt from, 34–46
Rumpelstiltskin, 75
S
Saxon kings and the Table-men, 44
Secret Commonwealth, The, 194
and heroes, 63
Siths, 195
Soulis, Reverend Murdoch, 252–265
Stephens and the cromlechs, C. Taylor, 39–40
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 252
Stoker, Bram, 208
Stonehenge, 34
stories, oral, 15
storytellers, traditional local, 98
storytelling, 15
T
Tains Bo Cuailnge, 17
taish, see “second sight, the.”
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, excerpt from, 154–162
thresholds in Celtic lore, 147
Traditions of West Cornwall, selections from, 102–105
Trereen Dinas, rock mass at, 36–37
Tuatha de Danaan, 63
twelve o'clock stone, 43
Tylwyth Teg, 178
V
Van Lake Legend, see Myddfai
Legend, The Vikings and the Celts, 53–54
W
Welsh changeling legends, 173–180
Welsh Folk-lore, selections from, 175–180
Welsh legends of fairy brides and mortal men, 72–75
Welsh Taboo story, 78
Welsh Tylwth Teg, 64
“West Country Superstitions,” excerpt from, 108–111
Wolf of Badenoch, 34
writers and the storytelling tradition, 207
X
X-Files, 209
Y
Z
Zennor coits, 39