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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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