Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Revised) - William Butler Yeats - Books - Dover Publications - 9780486269412 - November 17, 2011
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Revised)

William Butler Yeats

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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Revised)

"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.

Reprint of the Walter Scott, London, 1888 edition.

Marc Notes: Originally published: London: W. Scott, 1888. Table of Contents: 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 FairyCHANGELINGS? The Brewery of Egg-shells The Fairy Nurse Jamie Freel and the Young Lady The Stolen ChildTHE MERROW? The Soul Cages Flory Cantillon's FuneralTHE 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 MacCarthysGHOSTS? 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 BewitchedTYEER-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 GooseTHE DEVIL- The Demon Cat The Long Spoon The Countess Kathleen O'Shea The Three WishesGIANTS- 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-edaNOTESPublisher Marketing: Treasury 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.

Contributor Bio:  Yeats, William Butler William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 17, 2011
ISBN13 9780486269412
Publishers Dover Publications
Genre Cultural Region > Ireland
Pages 352
Dimensions 137 × 216 × 17 mm   ·   353 g
Language English  
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