Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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
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