Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by Butler, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword by Paul Muldoon Introduction by William Butler Yeats Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

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 POOKA The Piper and the Puca Daniel O’Rourke The Kildare Pooka THE BANSHEE How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald The Banshee of the Mac Carthys

Ghosts

A Dream Grace Connor A Legend of Tyrone The Black Lamb Song of the Ghost 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

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; Or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne

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