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The Camelot Series
Edited by Ernest Rhys
FAIRY AND FOLK TALES |
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FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY
selected and edited by W. B. Yeats
London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane
New York: 3 East 14th Street
1888 |
| Contents |
vi-viii |
| Introduction |
ix-xviii |
| THE TROOPING FAIRIES |
1 |
| “The Fairies”, by William Allingham [verse] |
3 |
| “Frank Martin and the Fairies” by William Carleton |
5 |
| “The Priest’s Supper”, by T. Crofton Croker |
9 |
| “The Fairy Well of Lagnanay”, by Samuel Ferguson [verse] |
13 |
| “Teig O’Kane and the Corpse”, trans. from a story by Douglas Hyde |
16 |
| “Paddy Corcoran’s Wife”, by William Carleton |
31 |
| “Cusheen Loo”, trans. from the Irish by J. J. Callanan |
33 |
| “The White Trout: A Legend of Cong”, by S[amuel] Lover |
35 |
| “The Fairy Thorn”, by Samuel Ferguson [verse] |
38 |
| “The Legend of Knockgrafton”, by T. Crofton Croker |
40 |
| “A Donegal Fairy”, by Letitia Maclintock |
46 |
| CHANGELINGS |
47 |
| “The Brewery of Egg-shells”, by T. Crofton Croker |
48 |
| “The Fairy Nurse”, by Edward Walsh |
51 |
| “Jamie Freel and the Young Lady”, by Letitia MacClintock |
52 |
| “The Stolen Child” [by W. B. Yeats] |
59 |
| THE MERROW |
61 |
| “The Soul Cages”, by T. Crofton Croker |
61 |
| “Flory Cantillon’s Funeral”, by T. Crofton Croker |
75 |
| THE SOLITARY FAIRIES |
79 |
| “The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker”, by William Allingham [verse] |
81 |
| “Master and Man”, by T. Crofton Croker |
81 |
| “Far Darrig in Donegal”, by Letitia Maclintock |
90 |
| THE POOKA |
94 |
| “The Piper and the Puca”, by Douglas Hyde |
95 |
| “Daniel O’Rourke”, by T. Crofton Croker |
97 |
| “The Kildare Pooka”, by Patrick Kennedy |
105 |
| THE BANSHEE |
107 |
| “How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee”, by John Todhunter |
108 |
| “A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald”, by J. C. Mangan |
112 |
| “The Banshee of the MacCarthys”, by T. Crofton Croker |
113 |
| GHOSTS |
128 |
| “A Dream”, by William Allingham |
129 |
| “Grace Connor”, by Letitia MacClintock |
130 |
| “A Legend of Tyrone”, by Ellen O’Leary |
132 |
| “The Black Lamb”, by Lady Wilde |
134 |
| “The Song of the Ghost”, by Alfred Percival Graves |
134 |
| “The Radiant Boy”, by Mrs. Crow |
136 |
| “The Fate of Frank M’Kenna”, by William Carleton |
139 |
| WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS |
146 |
| “Bewitched Butter (Donegal)”, by Letitia MacClintock |
149 |
| “A Queen’s County Witch” [Dublin University Magazine, 1839] |
151 |
| “The Witch Hare”, by Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall |
154 |
| “Bewitched Butter (Queen’s County)” [Dublin University Magazine, 1839] |
151 |
| “The Horned Women”, by Lady Wilde |
165 |
| “The Witches’ Excursion”, by Patrick Kennedy |
168 |
| “The Confessions of Tom Bourke”, by T. Crofton Croker |
170 |
| “The Pudding Bewitched”, by William Carleton |
185 |
| T’YEER-NA-N-OGE |
200 |
| “The Legend of O’Donoghue”, by T. Crofton Croker |
201 |
| “Rent-Day” [n.a.] |
203 |
| “Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)” [Dublin and London Magazine, 1825] |
206 |
| “Hy-Brasail.-The Isle of the Blest”, by Gerald Griffin |
212 |
| “The Phantom Isle”, by Giraldus Cambrensis |
213 |
| SAINTS, PRIESTS- |
214 |
| “The Priest’s Soul”, by Lady Wilde |
215 |
| “The Priest of Coloony”, by W. B. Yeats |
220 |
| “The Story of the Little Bird”, by T. Crofton Croker |
222 |
| “Conversion of King Laoghaire’s Daughters” [n.a.] |
224 |
| “King O’Toole and his Goose”, by S[amuel] Lover |
224 |
| THE DEVIL |
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| “The Demon Cat”, by Lady Wilde |
229 |
| “The Long Spoon”, by Patrick Kennedy |
231 |
| “The Countess Kathleen O’Shea” [n.a.; London Irish newspaper] |
232 |
| “The Three Wishes”, by William Carleton |
235 |
| GIANTS |
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| “The Giant’s Stairs”, by T. Crofton Croker |
260 |
| “A Legend of Knockmany”, by William Carleton |
266 |
| KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS |
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| “The Twelve Wild Geese”, by Patrick Kennedy |
280 |
| “The Lazy Beauty and her Aunt”, by Patrick Kennedy |
286 |
| “The Haughty Princess”, by Patrick Kennedy |
290 |
| “The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla”, by Patrick Kennedy |
294 |
| “Munachar and Manachar”, trans. by Douglas Hyde |
296 |
| “Donald and his Neighbours” [Hibernian Tales] |
299 |
| “The Jackdaw” [n.a] |
303 |
| “The Story of Conn-eda”, by Abraham M’Coy, trans. by Nicholas O’Kearney |
306 |
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319 |
NOTES
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Gods of the Earth [319]; Sir Samuel Ferguson [320]; Cusheen Loo [320]; Legend of Knockgrafton [with music; 320-21]; Stolen Child [321]; Solitary Fairies [321]; Banshee’s Cry [mus. notation by Mr & Mrs Hall; 321]; Omens [321-22]; A Witch Trial [322-23]; T’yeer-na-n-Oge [323]; The Ganconer or Gancanagh [323-34]; Father John O’Hart [324]; Shoneen and Sleiveen [324]; Demon Cat [324]; A Legend of Knockmany [324].
Some Authorities on Irish Folk-Lore [325-26]. |
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