Chapter I: Front Matter

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FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY. EDITED AND
SELECTED BY W. B. YEATS.

THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD.
LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE.
NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14TH STREET.

INSCRIBED
TO MY MYSTICAL FRIEND,
G. R.

CONTENTS.

THE TROOPING FAIRIES-- PAGE

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

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

T'YEER-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
The 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