A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Introduction (W. B. Yeats) THE TROOPING FAIRIES The Fairies (William Allingham) The Legend of Knocksheogowna (T. Crofton Croker) Frank Martin and the Fairies (William Carleton) Ethna the Bride (Lady Wilde) The Priest's Supper (T. Crofton Croker) The Fairy Well of Lagnanay (Samuel Ferguson) A Legend of Bottle-Hill (T. Crofton Croker) Teig O'Kane (Tadhg O Cáthán) and the Corpse (Literally translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde) Paddy Corcoran's Wife (William Carleton) The Fairies' Revenge (Lady Wilde) Cusheen Loo (Translated from the Irish by J. J. Callanan) The Legend of Knockfierna (T. Crofton Croker) The White Trout; a Legend of Cong (S. Lover) The Farmer Punished (Lady Wilde) The Farmer's Wife (Lady Wilde) The Fairy Thorn: An Ulster Ballad (Sir Samuel Ferguson) The Fairy Dance (Lady Wilde) Jemmy Doyle in the Fairy Palace (Patrick Kennedy) The Recovered Bride (Patrick Kennedy) The Palace in the Rath (Patrick Kennedy) The Legend of Knockgrafton (T. Crofton Croker) A Donegal Fairy (Letitia Maclintock) Lanty M'Cluskey's Fairy Boon (William Carleton) Fairies or No Fairies (T. Crofton Croker) The Spell-Struck (T. W. Rolleston) THE CAVE FAIRIES (Lady Wilde) Edain the Queen The Black Steed The Black Dog The Three Ladies in White POPULAR NOTIONS CONSIDERING THE SIDHE RACE (Lady Wilde) The Hurling Match The Ride with the Fairies The Fairy Spy The Dark Horseman Sheela-Na-Skean The Mayo Robber and Feenish the Mare CHANGELINGS The Changeling (T. Crofton Croker) The Trial by Fire (Lady Wilde) The Fairy Child (Patrick Kennedy) The Fairy Nurse (Edward Walsh) The Changeling (Lady Wilde) The Brewery of Egg-shells (T. Crofton Croker) The Changeling and His Bagpipes (Patrick Kennedy) Jamie Freel and the Young Lady: A Donegal Tale (Letitia Maclintock) The Two Gossips (T. Crofton Croker) The Stolen Child (W. B. Yeats) The Fairy Changeling (Lady Wilde) The Tobinstown Sheeoge (Patrick Kennedy) The Young Piper (T. Crofton Croker) THE MERROW The Soul Cages (T. Crofton Croker) Flory Cantillon's Funeral (T. Crofton Croker) The Lord of Dunkerron (T. Crofton Croker) The Lady of Gollerus (T. Crofton Croker) The Wonderful Tune (T. Crofton Croker) THE SOLITARY FAIRIES THE LEPRACHAUN, THE CLURICAUN, AND THE FAR DARRIG The Leprachaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker (William Allingham) Master and Man (T. Crofton Croker) The Leprehaun (Lady Wilde) Seeing Is Believing (T. Crofton Croker) The Field of Boliauns (T. Crofton Croker) The Little Shoe (T. Crofton Croker) The Haunted Cellar (T. Crofton Croker) Diarmid Bawn, the Piper (T. Crofton Croker) Ned Sheehy's Excuse (T. Crofton Croker) The Turf Cutters (T. Crofton Croker) Far Darrig in Donegal (Letitia Maclintock) Teigue of the Lee (T. Crofton Croker) The Lucky Guest (T. Crofton Croker) The Leprechawn (D. R. McAnally, Jr.) The Kildare Lurikeen (Patrick Kennedy) THE POOKA The Pooka (E. W.) The Pooka of Baltracy (Patrick Kennedy) The Crookened Back (T. Crofton Croker) The Piper and the Púca (Translated literally from the Irish of the Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta by Douglas Hyde) Daniel O'Rourke (T. Crofton Croker) The Kildare Pooka (Patrick Kennedy) The Haunted Brake (Leitch Ritchie) The Haunted Castle (T. Crofton Croker) The Spirit Horse (T. Crofton Croker) The Pooka of Murroe (Patrick Kennedy) Taming the Pooka (D. R. McAnally, Jr.) THE BANSHEE AND THE DULLAHAN How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee (J. Todhunter) The Banshee of the O'Briens (Patrick Kennedy) The Bunworth Banshee (T. Crofton Croker) A Lamentation: For the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight, of Kerry, who was killed in Flanders, 1642 (From the Irish, by Clarence Mangan) The Banshee of the Mac Carthys (T. Crofton Croker) The Insulted Banshee (Anonymous) Hanlon's Mill (T. Crofton Croker) The Death Coach (T. Crofton Croker) The Good Woman (T. Crofton Croker) The Harvest Dinner (T. Crofton Croker) The Headless Horseman (T. Crofton Croker) GHOSTS A Dream (William Allingham) Grace Connor (Letitia Maclintock) The Queen's County Ghost (Patrick Kennedy) The Ghost in Graigue (Patrick Kennedy) The Doctor's Fetch (Patrick Kennedy) The Ghostly Premonition (William Carleton) A Legend of Tyrone (Ellen O'Leary) The Black Lamb (Lady Wilde) Walker and the Women (William Carleton) Song of the Ghost (Alfred Percival Graves) Droochan's Ghost (Patrick Kennedy) The Radiant Boy (Mrs. Crow) The Fate of Frank M'Kenna (William Carleton) The Ghosts and the Game of Football (Patrick Kennedy) WITCHES AND FAIRY DOCTORS The Witch-Bride (William Allingham) The Fairy Cure (Patrick Kennedy) The Doctor and the Fairy Princess (Lady Wilde) The Fairy Doctress (Lady Wilde) The Fairy Nurse (Patrick Kennedy) The Wicked Widow (Lady Wilde) The Bewitched Churn (Patrick Kennedy) The Dead Hand (Lady Wilde) Bewitched Butter (Donegal) (Letitia Maclintock) A Queen's County Witch (From Dublin University Review, 1839) The Rival Kempers (William Carleton) The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla (Patrick Kennedy) The Brown Bear of Norway (Patrick Kennedy) The Witch Hare (Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall) Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) (From Dublin University Magazine, 1839) The Horned Women (Lady Wilde) The Witches' Excursion (Patrick Kennedy) The Butter Mystery (Lady Wilde) The Confessions of Tom Bourke (T. Crofton Croker) The Misfortunes of Barrett the Piper (Patrick Kennedy) The Pudding Bewitched (William Carleton) The Lady Witch (Lady Wilde) The Corpse Watchers (Patrick Kennedy) The Witch of Rathdowney (Anonymous) T'YEER-NAN-OGE The Legend of O'Donoghue (T. Crofton Croker) Rent-Day The Legend of Lough Gur (T. Crofton Croker) Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) (From Dublin and London Magazine, 1825) Fior Usga (T. Crofton Croker) Hy-Brasail—The Isle of the Blest (Gerald Griffin) The Enchanted Lake (T. Crofton Croker) The Phantom Isle (Giraldus Cambrensis) Cormac and Mary (T. Crofton Croker) PRIESTS AND SAINTS The Priest's Soul (Lady Wilde) The Priests of Coloony (W. B. Yeats) The Holy Well and the Murderer (Lady Wilde) Legend of Neal-Mor (Lady Wilde) St. Seenan's Well (Lady Wilde) Kil-Na-Greina (Lady Wilde) The Irish Fakir (Lady Wilde) The Story of the Little Bird (T. Crofton Croker) The Midnight Ride (Lady Wilde) King O'Toole and His Goose (S. Lover) How St. Patrick Received the Staff of Jesus (Patrick Kennedy) St. Patrick's Contest with the Druids (Patrick Kennedy) St. Patrick and the Herd Caudy (William Carleton) The Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters St. Patrick and His Followers (Patrick Kennedy) >> The Baptism of Aongus >> The Decision of the Chariot >> The Conversion of the Robber Chief, Macaldus >> Baptism After Death >> The Vision of St. Brigid >> St. Brigid's Cloak >> St. Brigid and the Harps Death and Burial of St. Patrick (Patrick Kennedy) The Corpse-Freighted Barque (Patrick Kennedy) More Legends of the Saints (Patrick Kennedy) >> "Arran of the Saints" and Its Patrons >> St. Fanchea's Visit to Arran >> The Island of the Birds >> The Sinner Saved >> A Legend of St. Mogue of Ferns >> How St. Eloi Was Cured of Pride >> St. Lateerin of Cullin THE DEVIL The Demon Cat (Lady Wilde) The Long Spoon (Patrick Kennedy) The Countess Kathleen O'Shea Black Stairs on Fire (Patrick Kennedy) The Three Wishes (William Carleton) Satan's Cloven Hoof (D. R. McAnally, Jr.) GIANTS The Giant's Stairs (T. Crofton Croker) A Legend of Knockmany (William Carleton) Jack the Master and Jack the Servant (Patrick Kennedy) The Henpecked Giant (D. R. McAnally, Jr.) The Giant and His Royal Servants (Patrick Kennedy) ROCKS AND STONES Barry of Cairn Thierna (T. Crofton Croker) Clough Na Cuddy (T. Crofton Croker) The Legend of Cairn Thierna (T. Crofton Croker) The Rock of the Candle (T. Crofton Croker) TREASURE LEGENDS Dreaming Tim Jarvis (T. Crofton Croker) Rent-Day (T. Crofton Croker) Linn-na-Payshtha (T. Crofton Croker) Scath-a-Legaune (T. Crofton Croker) LEGENDS OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS (Lady Wilde) The Bride's Death-Song The Child's Dream The Fairy Child The Doom Fairy Justice The Fairy Court at Innisboffin Shaun-Mor Legends of the Dead in the Western Islands >> The Death Sign >> Kathleen >> November Eve >> The Dance of the Dead KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, AND ROBBERS The Fate of the Children of Lir (Retold by Joseph Jacobs) The Twelve Wild Geese (Patrick Kennedy) The Goban Saor (Patrick Kennedy) The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts (Patrick Kennedy) The Three Crowns (Patrick Kennedy) The Haughty Princess (Patrick Kennedy) The Legend of Ballytowtas Castle (Lady Wilde) Munachar and Manachar (Translated literally from the Irish by Douglas Hyde) The Bad Stepmother (Patrick Kennedy) Donald and His Neighbours (From Hibernian Tales) The Jackdaw Adventures of Gilla Na Chreck an Gour (Patrick Kennedy) The Story of Conn-eda; or, the Golden Apples of Lough Erne (Translated from the Original Irish of the Story-teller, Abraham McCoy, by Nicholas O'Kearney) Jack and His Comrades (Patrick Kennedy) The Three Advices Which the King with the Red Soles Gave to His Son (Patrick Kennedy) Jack the Cunning Thief (Patrick Kennedy)