This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and translated them near the end of the 1800s. - Summary by Michele Eaton
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction
18:24 - Chapter 2
The Trooping Fairies - The Fairies
06:20 - Chapter 3
Frank Martin and The Fairies
08:36 - Chapter 4
The Priest's Supper - The Fairy Well of Lagnanay
11:15 - Chapter 5
Teig O'Kane and the Corpse
29:26 - Chapter 6
Paddy Corcoran's Wife - Cusheen Loo the White Trout: A Legend of Cong
12:01 - Chapter 7
The Fairy Thorn - The Legend of Knockgrafton - A Donegal Fairy
14:48 - Chapter 8
Changelings The Brewery of Egg-shells - The Fairy Nurse
08:20 - Chapter 9
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady - The Stolen Child
15:23 - Chapter 10
The Merrow The Soul Cages
27:04 - Chapter 11
Flory Cantillon's Funeral
07:56 - Chapter 12
The Solitary Fairies -The Lepracaun, or, Fairy Shoemaker
03:38 - Chapter 13
Master and Man - Far Darrig in Donegal
27:47 - Chapter 14
The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke
21:07 - Chapter 15
The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee
17:51 - Chapter 16
A Lamantation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald - The Banshee of the MacCarthys
35:56 - Chapter 17
Ghosts - A Dream
04:58 - Chapter 18
Grace Conner
04:08 - Chapter 19
A Legend of Tyrone
02:49 - Chapter 20
The Black Lamb - Song of the Ghost
03:26 - Chapter 21
The Radiant Boy - The Fate of Frank M'Kenna
20:55 - Chapter 22
Witches, Fairy Doctors Bewitched
08:26 - Chapter 23
Bewitched Butter (Donegal) - A Queen's County Witch
11:01 - Chapter 24
The Witch Hare - Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)
24:41 - Chapter 25
The Horned Women - The Witches Excursion
10:20 - Chapter 26
The Confessions of Tom Bourke
31:44 - Chapter 27
The Pudding Bewitched
29:44 - Chapter 28
Tyeer-Na-N-Oge The Legend of O'Donoghue
07:44 - Chapter 29
Rent-Day - Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
20:15 - Chapter 30
Hy-Brasail - The Isle of the Blest - The Phantom Isle
04:16 - Chapter 31
Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony
15:10 - Chapter 32
The Story of the Little Bird - Conversion King Laoghaire's Daughters
05:27 - Chapter 33
King O'Toole and His Goose
09:58 - Chapter 34
The Devil The Demon Cat - The Long Spoon - The Countess Kathleen
13:35 - Chapter 35
The Three Wishes Part 1
25:13 - Chapter 36
The Three Wishes Part 2
29:35 - Chapter 37
Giants - The Giant's Stairs
14:58 - Chapter 38
A Legend of Knockmany
25:47 - Chapter 39
Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers - The Twelve Wild Geese
10:38 - Chapter 40
The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts
12:30 - Chapter 41
The Haughty Princess - The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla
13:37 - Chapter 42
Munachar and Manachar - Donald and his Neighbours
18:12 - Chapter 43
The Jackdaw
06:08 - Chapter 44
The Story of Conn-eda
29:41