Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

​CONTENTS.

THE TROOPING FAIRIES—

The Fairies 3

Frank Martin and the Fairies 5

The Priest's Supper 9

The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 13

Teig O'Kane and the Corpse 16

Paddy Corcoran's Wife 31

Cusheen Loo 33

The White Trout; A Legend of Cong 35

The Fairy Thorn 38

The Legend of Knockgrafton 40

A Donegal Fairy 46

CHANGELINGS—

The Brewery of Egg-shells 48

The Fairy Nurse 51

Jamie Freel and the Young Lady 52

The Stolen Child 59

THE MERROW—

The Soul Cages 61

Flory Cantillon's Funeral 75

THE SOLITARY FAIRIES—

The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker 81

Master and Man 84

Far Darrig in Donegal 90

The Piper and the Puca 95

Daniel O'Rourke 97

The Kildare Pooka 105

How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee 108

A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald 112

The Banshee of the MacCarthys 113

GHOSTS—

A Dream 129

Grace Connor 130

A Legend of Tyrone 132

The Black Lamb 134

The Radiant Boy 136

The Fate of Frank M'Kenna 139 ​ PAGE

WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS—

Bewitched Butter (Donegal) 149 A Queen's County Witch 151

The Witch Hare 154 Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) 155 The Horned Women 165 The Witches' Excursion 168 The Confessions of Tom Bourke 170 The Pudding Bewitched 185

TYEER-NA-N-OGE—

The Legend of O'Donoghue 201 Rent-Day 203 Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) 206 Hy-Brasail.—The Isle of the Blest. 212 The Phantom Isle 213

SAINTS, PRIESTS—

The Priest's Soul 215

The Priest of Coloony 220

The Story of the Little Bird 222

Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters 224

King O'Toole and his Goose 224

THE DEVIL—

The Demon Cat 229

The Long Spoon 231

Countess Kathleen O'Shea 232

The Three Wishes 235

GIANTS—

The Giant's Stairs 260

A Legend of Knockmany 266

KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS—

The Twelve Wild Geese 280

The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts 286

The Haughty Princess 290

The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla 294

Munachar and Manachar 296

Donald and his Neighbours 299

The Jackdaw 303

The Story of Conn-eda 306

NOTES 319