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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. Yeats (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486269418
ISBN-139780486269412
eBay Product ID (ePID)203428
Product Key Features
Book TitleFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology
Publication Year2011
GenreFiction, Social Science
AuthorW. Yeats
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-024027
Dewey Edition20
Dewey DecimalFIC
Edition DescriptionReprint,New Edition
Table Of ContentTHE 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 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 Women The Witches' Excursion The Confessions of Tom Bourke The Pudding Bewitched TYEER-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 Neighbours The Jackdaw The Story of Conn-eda NOTES
SynopsisTreasury of 64 tales invites readers into the shadowy, twilight world of Celtic myth and legend. Mischievous fairy people, murderous giants, priests, devils, and druids star in such stories as "The Soul Cages," "The Black Lamb," "The Horned Women," "The Phantom Isle," and more. Introduction, Notes by W. B. Yeats., "Even a newspaper man, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celts is a visionary without scratching." -- from the Introduction In this charming collection, readers will find themselves transported to the shadowy, twilit world of Celtic myth and legend -- where the deenee shee (fairy people) work their mischief, where priests and the devil wage an endless struggle for the souls of humankind, where clever wives outwit murderous giants and druids cast geise (spells). The majority of the tales presented here were collected in the nineteenth century by such folklorists as William Allingham, T. Crofton Croker, Douglas Hyde, and Lady Wilde (Oscar Wilde's mother). From this rich legacy, William Butler Yeats, who drew upon Irish fairy lore for his own poetry and plays, chose an especially interesting and representative selection: "The White Trout; A Legend of Cong," "The Brewery of Egg-shells," "The Soul Cages," "The Kildare Pooka," "The Black Lamb," "The Horned Women," "The Phantom Isle," "King O'Toole and his Goose," "The Demon Cat," "The Giant's Stairs," "The Twelve Wild Geese," and many more -- 64 in all. Now lovers of myth and legend can immerse themselves in this treasury of time-honored tales brimming with the warmth, charm, and age-old peasant lore of rural Ireland. An Introduction and Notes by W. B. Yeats help elucidate the background of the stories and their meaning and role in Irish life and culture., Treasury of 64 tales from the world of Celtic myth and legend: "The Soul Cages," "The Kildare Pooka," "King O'Toole and his Goose," more. Introduction, Notes by W. B. Yeats.
LC Classification NumberGR153.5.F3
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