num_pages: 748
description: A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales collect more than 200 stories from the rich folk legacy of the Emerald Isle. Its pages are animated with colorful tales of the fairy folk in all their many guises: the changeling the banshee the headless dullahan the leprechaun the merrow and the ever-mischievous pooka. In addition this volume includes tales of ghosts witches and fairy doctors priests and saints encounters with the devil titans of Ireland's historical past as well as popular treasure legends.Contents: The trooping fairies. The cave fairies --Popular notions considering the Sidhe race --Changelings --The solitary fairies. The lepracaun the cluricaun and the Far Darrig --The pooka --The banshee and the dullahan --Ghosts --Witches and fairy doctors --T'yeer-na-n-oge --Priests and saints --The devil --Giants --Rocks and stones --Treasure legends --Legends of the western islands --Kings queens princesses earls and robbers
language: English
title: A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
publisher: Sterling