Rich and representative collection of 43 tales and poems brimming with leprechauns, fairies, and other mythical creatures. Includes "The Stolen Child," by William Butler Yeats, "The Ninepenny Fidil," by Joseph Campbell; as well as works by Lady Jane Wilde, Jeremiah Curtin, Douglas Hyde, and other distinguished writers. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1909.
Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin Twenty folk tales represent hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination. Vivid descriptions of battles with giants, humans imprisoned in animals' bodies, heroes with incredible strength, and more.
Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.
