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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

by W. B. Yeats. 360 pgs.

Contributors:

   W. B. Yeats

Publisher:

   Modern Library

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1994

Subjects:

Folk Literature--Ireland, Tales--Ireland, Fairy Tales--Ireland

	CONTENTS
	INTRODUCTION
	THE TROOPING FAIRIES--
	The Fairies	3
	Frank Martin and the Fairies	5
	The Priest's Supper	9
	The Fairy Well of Lagnanay	14
	Teig O'Kane and the Corpse	16
	Paddy Corcoran's Wife	33
	Cusheen Loo	35
	The White Trout; A Legend of Cong	36
	The Fairy Thorn	40
	The Legend of Knockgrafton	43
	A Donegal Fairy	48
	CHANGELINGS--
	The Brewery of Egg-shells	51
	The Fairy Nurse	54
	Jamie Freel and the Young Lady	55
	The Stolen Child	62
	THE MERROW--
	The Soul Cages	65
	Flory Cantillon's Funeral	80
	THE SOLITARY FAIRIES--
	The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker	86
	Master and Man	89
	Far Darrig in Donegal	96
	The Piper and the Puca	101
	Daniel O'Rourke	104
	The Kildare Pooka	112
	How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee	116
	A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald	120
	The Banshee of the Mac Carthys	122
	GHOSTS--
	A Dream	139
	Grace Connor	140
	A Legend of Tyrone	142
	The Black Lamb	144
	Song of the Ghost	144
	The Radiant Boy	146
	The Fate of Frank M'Kenna	149
	WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS--
	Bewitched Butter (Donegal)	158
	A Queen's County Witch	160
	The Witch Hare	164
	Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)	165
	The Horned Women	176
	The Witches' Excursion	179
	The Confessions of Tom Bourke	182
	The Pudding Bewitched	198
	T'YEER-NA-N-OGE--
	The Legend of O'Donoghue	215
	Rent Day	217
	Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)	220
	Hy-Brasail--The Isle of the Blest	226
	The Phantom Isle	228
	SAINTS, PRIESTS--
	The Priest's Soul	230
	The Priest of Coloony	236
	The Story of the Little Bird	237
	Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters	239
	King O'Toole and His Goose	240
	THE DEVIL--
	The Demon Cat	245
	The Long Spoon	247
	The Countess Kathleen O'Shea	248
	The Three Wishes	252
	GIANTS--
	The Giant's Stairs	279
	A Legend of Knockmany	285
	KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS--
	The Twelve Wild Geese	300
	The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts	306
	The Haughty Princess	311
	The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla	315
	Munachar and Manachar	317
	Donald and His Neighbors	321
	The Jackdaw	325
	The Story of Conn-eda	328
	NOTES	343

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