Essential Celtic Folklore Collection

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Essential Celtic Folklore Collection

Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales European history

Author: Lady Gregory

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Language: English

Published by: eBookIt.com

Published on: 5 March 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 688 Kb

ISBN: 9781456613594


Compiled in one book, the essential collection of Celtic folklore:

Legends and Stories of Ireland- Samuel Lover

Glossary

King O'Toole and St Kevin

Lough Corrib

A Legend of Lough Mask

The White Trout

The Battle of the Berrins; or, the Double Funeral

Father Roach

The Priest's Story

The King and the Bishop

Jimmy the Fool

The Catastrophe

The Devil's Mill

The Gridiron; or Paddy Mullowney's Travels in France

Paddy the Piper

The Priest's Ghost

New Potatoes

Paddy the Sport

The White Horse of the Peppers

The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate

Conclusion of the White Horse of the Peppers

The Curse of Kishogue

The Fairy Finder

Cuchulain of Muirthemne- Lady Gregory

Preface by W. B. Yeats

I. Birth of Cuchulain

II. Boy Deeds of Cuchulain

III. Courting of Emer

IV. Bricrius Feast

V. The Championship of Ulster

VI. The High King of Ireland

VII. Fate of the Sons of Usnach

VIII. Dream of Angus Og

IX. Cruachan

X. The Wedding of Maine Morgor

XI. The War for the Bull of Cuilagne

XII. Awakening of Ulster

XIII. The Two Bulls

XIV. The Only Jealously of Emer

XV. Advice to a Prince

XVI. Sons of Doel Dermait

XVII. Battle of Rosnaree

XVIII. The Only Son of Aoife

XIX. The Great Gathering at Muirthemne

XX. Death of Cuchulain

Note by W.B. Yeats

Notes by Lady Gregory

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel

The Cattle-Raid of Cooley

Gods and Fighting Men- Lady Gregory

The Celtic Twilight- W. B. Yeats

Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy

Preface

Dedication

Household Stories

Jac and His Comrades

The Bad Stepmother

Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour

Jack the Master and Jack the Servant

I'll be Wiser the next Time

The Three Crowns

The Corpse Watchers

The Brown Bear of Norway

The Goban Saor

The Three Advices which the King with the Red Soles gave to his Son

Legends of the 'Good People'

The Fairy Child

The Changeling and his Bagpipes

The Tobinstown Sheeoge

The Belated Priest

The Palace in the Rath

The Breton Version of the Palace in the Rath

The Fairy Nurse

The Recovered Bride

Faction-fight among the Fairies

Jemmy Doyle in the Fairy Palace

The Fairy Cure

The Sea Fairies

The Black Cattle of Durzy Island

The Silkie Wife

The Pooka of Murroe

The Kildare Pooka

The Kildare Lurikeen

The Adventures of the 'Son of Bad Counsel'

Witchcaft, Socery, Ghosts and Fetches

The Long Spoon

The Prophet before his Time

The Bewitched Churn

The Ghosts and the Game of Football

The Cat of the Carman's Stage

Cauth Morisy looking for Service

Black Stairs on Fire

The Witches Excursion

The Crock found in the Rath

The Enchantment of Gearhoidh Iarla

Illan Eachtach and the Lianan

The Misfortunes of Barrett the Piper

The Woman in White

The Queen's County Ghost

The Ghost in Graigue

Droochan's Ghost

The Kiranelagh Spirit

The Doctor's Fetch

The Apparition in Old Ross

Ossianic and Early Legends

Fann Mac Cuil and the Scotch Giant

How Fann Mac Cuil and his Men were Bewitched

Qualifications and Duties of the Fianna Eirionn

The Battle of Ventry Harbour

The Fight of Castle Knoc

The Youth of Fion

Fion's First Marriage

How Fion selected a Wife

Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne

The Flight of the Sluggard

Beanriogain na Sciana Breaca

Conan's Delusions in Ceash

The Youth of Oisin

The Old Age of Oisin

Legend of Loch na Piasta

The King with the Horse's Ears

The Story of the Sculloge's Son from Muskerry

Fios Fath an Aaon Sceil

An Broan Suan Or

The Children of Lir

Lough Neagh

Killarney

Legend of the Lake of Inchiquin

How the Shannon acquired its Name

The Origin of the Lake of Tiis

The Building of Ardfert Cathredral

How Donaghedee got its Name

The Borrowed Lake

Kilstoheen in the Shannon

The Isle of the Living

Fionnutuin Mac Bochna

The Firbolgs and Danaans

Inis na Muic

The Bath of the White Cows

The Quest for the Tain-Bo-Cuilagne

The Progress of the Wicked Bard

Legends of the Celtic Saints

St Patrick

How St Patrick received the Staff of Jesus

The Fortune of Dichu

St Patrick's Contest with the Druids

The Baptism of Aongus

The Decision of the Chariot

Conversion of the Robber Chief, Macaldus

Baptism after Death

The Vision of St Brigid

Death and Burial of St Patrick

The Corpse-freighted Barque

St Brigid's Cloak

St Brigid and the Harps

Arran of the Saints and its Patrons

St Feancheas's Visit to Arran

St Brendain's Voyage

The Island of the Birds

The Sinner Saved

A Legend of St Mogue of Ferns

O' Carroll's Warning

How St Eloi was cured of Pride

St Lateerin of Cullin

Celtic Wonder Tales- Ella Young

The Earth Shapers

The Spear of Victory

A Good Action

How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Sold the Sheepskin

How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Shortened the Road

The Cow of Plenty

The Coming of Lugh

The Eric-Fine of Lugh

The Great Battle

Inisfail

The Golden Fly

The Children of Lir

The Luck-Child

Conary Mor

Beside the Fire- Douglas Hyde

Preface

Postscript (by Alfred Nutt)

Dedication

The Tailor and the Three Beasts

Bran

The King of Ireland's Son

The Alp-Luachra

Paudyeen O'Kelly and the Weasel

Leeam O'Rooney's Burial

Guleesh na Guss Dhu

The Well of D'Yerree-In-Dowan

The Court of Crinnawn

Neil O'Carree

Trunk-Without-Head

The Hags of the Long Teeth

William of the Tree

The Old Crow & The Young Crow

Riddles

The King of Ireland's Son- Padraic Colum

Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill

The Boyhood of Fionn

The Birth of Bran

Oisin's Mother

The Wooing of Becfola

The Little Brawl at Allen

The Carl of the Drab Coat

The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran

Mongan's Frenzy

Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland- Jeremiah Curtin

The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Lein

The Three Daughters of King O'Hara

The Weaver's Don and the Giant of the White Hill

Fair, Brown and Trembling

The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island

The Shee an Gannon and the Grugach Gaire

The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin

The Fisherman's Son and the Grugach of Tricks

The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin

Kil Arthur

Shaking-Head

Birth of Fin MacCumhail

Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh

Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe

Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail

Fin MacCumhail The Seven Brothers and the King of France

Black, Brown and Gray

Fin MacCumhail and the Son of the King of Alba

Cuculin

Oisin in Tir Na N-Og

Notes

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland- Lady Gregory

Preface

Sea Stories

Seers and Healers

The Evil Eye–The Touch–The Penalty

Away

Herbs, Charms and Wise Women

Astray and Treasure

Banshees and Warnings

In the Way

The Fighting of the Friends

The Unquiet Dead

Appearances

Butter

The Fool of the Forth

Forths and Sheoguey Places

Blacksmiths

Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts

Friars and Priest Cures

Notes (W.B. Yeats)

Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (W.B. Yeats)

Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places (W.B. Yeats)

The Mabinogion- Lady Charlotte Guest

Prolegomena to the Study of Old Welsh Poetry- Edward Anwyl

The Gododdin Poems- William F. Skene

British Goblins- Wirt Sikes

The Welsh Fairy Book- W. Jenkyn Thomas

Preface

Notes on Welsh Pronunciation

The Lady of the Lake

Arthur in the Cave

The Curse of the Pantannas

The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred

Elidyr's Sojurn in Fairy Land

Rhys and Llywelyn

Lowri Dafydd Earns a Purse of Go

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