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- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s.
- Chapters
- Introduction
- The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies
- Frank Martin and The Fairies
- The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
- Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
- Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong
- The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy
- Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse
- Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child
- The Merrow The Soul Cages
- Flory Cantillon's Funeral
- The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker
- Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal
- The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke
- The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee
- A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthys
- Ghosts - A Dream
- Grace Conner
- A Legend of Tyrone
- The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost
- The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
- Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched
- Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch
- The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)
- The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion
- The Confessions of Tom Bourke
- The Pudding Bewitched
- Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue
- Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
- Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle
- Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony
- The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters
- King O'Toole and His Goose
- The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen
- The Three Wishes Part 1
- The Three Wishes Part 2
- Giants - The Giant's Stairs
- A Legend of Knockmany
- Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese
- The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts
- The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
- Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours
- The Jackdaw
- The Story of Conn-eda