Message #137238

[Deborah Valkenburg]

p. vii

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
 61
 
    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
 81
 
    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
 
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WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS--
   
    Bewitched Butter (Donegal)
 149
 
    A Queen's County Witch
 151
 
    The Witch Hare
 154
 
    Bewitched Butter (Queen's Comity)
 151
 
    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 Aunt
 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
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