Table of Contents

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
Lepracaun, Cluricaun, Far Darrig i) The Lepracaun; or Fairy Shoemaker ii) Master and Man iii) Far Darrig in Donegal
The Pooka i) The Piper and the Puca ii) Daniel O' Rourke iii) The Kildare Pooka
The Banshee i) How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee ii) A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald iii) The Banshee of the Mac Carthys

GHOSTS
A Dream
Grace Connor
A Legend of Tyrone
The Black Lamb
Song of the Ghost
The Radiant Boy
The Fate of Frank M'Kenna

WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
A Queen's County Witch
The Witch Hare
Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
The Horned Woman
The Witches' Excursion
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
The Pudding Bewitched

T'YEER-NA-A-N-OGE
The Legend of O'Donoghue
Rent-Day
Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Beast
The Phantom Isle

SAINTS, PRIESTS
The Priest's Soul
The Priest of Coloony
The Story of the Little Bird
Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters
King O'Toole and his Goose

THE DEVIL
The Demon Cat
The Long Spoon
The Countless Kathleen O'Shea
The Three Wishes

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

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