FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
EDITED AND SELECTED BY W. B. YEATS
LONDON:
WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE
NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14TH STREET.
1888
CONTENTS
THE TROOPING FAIRIES 6
The Fairies 8
Frank Martin and the Fairies 9
The Priest's Supper 12
The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 15
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse 17
Paddy Corcoran's Wife 27
Cusheen Loo 29
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong 30
The Fairy Thorn 32
The Legend of Knockgrafton 34
A Donegal Fairy 38
CHANGELINGS 40
The Brewery of Egg-shells 40
The Fairy Nurse 42
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady 43
The Stolen Child 49
THE MERROW 51
The Soul Cages 51
Flory Cantillon's Funeral 61
THE SOLITARY FAIRIES 64
The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker 65
Master and Man 67
Far Darrig in Donegal 71
The Piper and the Puca 75
Daniel O'Rourke 77
The Kildare Pooka 81
How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee 84
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald 86
The Banshee of the MacCarthys 87
GHOSTS 96
A Dream 97
Grace Connor 98
A Legend of Tyrone 99
The Black Lamb 100
Song Of The Ghost 101
The Radiant Boy 102
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna 104
WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS 108
Bewitched Butter (Donegal) 110
A Queen's County Witch 112
The Witch Hare 114
Bewitched Butter (Queen's Comity) 115
The Horned Women ...
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