Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world
By: collected from oral tradition in south-west Munster by Jeremiah Curtin.
Publisher: Little, Brown, & company
Published: 1895
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Tales -- Ireland -- Munster; Ghosts -- Ireland -- Munster; Fairies -- Ireland -- Munster
Description: Thirty beguiling stories of sprites, wraiths, and specters appear here, as they were told to a Smithsonian Institution ethnographer in rural 19th-century Ireland. Stories include "Tom Connors and the Dead Girl," "Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor," "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," and many more