Chapter I: Front Matter

_By Lady Gregory_

DRAMA

Seven Short Plays
Folk-History Plays, 2 vols.
New Comedies
The Image
The Golden Apple
Our Irish Theatre. A Chapter of Autobiography

IRISH FOLK LORE AND LEGEND

Visions and Beliefs, 2 vols.
Cuchulain of Muirthemne
Gods and Fighting Men
Saints and Wonders
Poets and Dreamers
The Kiltartan Poetry Book

From a sepia drawing by Robert Gregory]

VISIONS AND BELIEFS IN
THE WEST OF IRELAND
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY
LADY GREGORY: WITH TWO ESSAYS
AND NOTES BY W.B. YEATS

"_There's no doubt at all but that there's the same
sort of things in other countries; but you hear
more about them in these parts because the Irish
do be more familiar in talking of them._"

_SECOND SERIES_

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
=The Knickerbocker Press=

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920

BY

LADY GREGORY

=The Knickerbocker Press, New York=

CONTENTS

PAGE

I.--HERBS, CHARMS, AND WISE WOMEN 3

II.--ASTRAY, AND TREASURE 29

III.--BANSHEES AND WARNINGS 45

IV.--IN THE WAY 65

V.--THE FIGHTING OF THE FRIENDS 77

VI.--THE UNQUIET DEAD 89

VII.--APPEARANCES 111

VIII.--BUTTER 189

IX.--THE FOOL OF THE FORTH 195

X.--FORTHS AND SHEOGUEY PLACES 205

XI.--BLACKSMITHS 239

XII.--MONSTERS AND SHEOGUEY BEASTS 245

XIII.--FRIARS AND PRIEST CURES 281

SWEDENBORG, MEDIUMS, AND THE DESOLATE PLACES 295

NOTES 343

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HERBS, CHARMS, AND WISE WOMEN