Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Revised)

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.