"Irish Fairy and Folk Tales", collected and edited by William B. Yeats, with twelve illustrations by James Torrance from the 1907 edition *** Gathered by the renowned Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, playwright, and essayist who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century, William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, mermaids, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories are enchanting and entertaining, and evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth. *** As Yeats says his introduction, "These folk-tales are full of simplicity and musical occurrences, for they are the literature of a class for whom every incident in the old rut of birth, love, pain, and death has cropped up unchanged for centuries: who have steeped everything in the heart: to whom everything is a symbol." *** Highly rated by both literary critics and common-man readers, this book is highly recommended to all interested in fairy and folk tales, especially those interested Irish traditions and folklore. *** Divided into nine sections, this book contains these stories: The Trooping Fairies - Frank Martin and the Fairies, The Priest's Supper, The Fairy Well of Lagnanay, Teig O'Kane (Tadhg Cáthán) and the Corpse, Paddy Corcoran's Wife, Cusheen Loo, The White Trout; a Legend of Cong, The Fairy Thorn, The Legend of Knockgrafton, A Donegal Fairy; Changelings - The Brewery of Egg-shells, The Fairy Nurse, Jamie Freel and the Young Lady, The Stolen Child; The Merrow- The Soul Cages, Flory Cantillon's Funeral.++++ The Solitary Fairies - The Lepracaun; Or, Fairy Shoemaker, Master and Man, Far Darrig in Donegal; The Pooka - The Piper and the Púca, Daniel O'Rourke, The Kildaee Pooka; The Banshee - How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee, A Lamentation, The Banshee of the Mac Carthys.++++ Ghosts - A Dream, Grace Connor, A Legend of Tyrone, The Black Lamb, Song of the Ghost, The Radiant Boy, The Fate of Frank M'Kenna.++++ Witches, Fairy Doctors - Bewitched Butter (Donegal), A Queen's County Witch), The Witch Hare, Bewitched Butter, The Horned Women, The Witches' Excursion, The Confessions of Tom Bourke, The Pudding Bewitched.++++ T'yeer-na-n-oge - The Legend of O'Donoghue, Rent Day, Loughleagh (Lake of Healing), Hy-Brasail: the Isle of the Blest, The Phantom Isle.++++ Saints, Priests - The Priest's Soul, The Priest of Coloony, The Story of the Little Bird, Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters, King O'Toole and His Goose.++++ The Devil- The Demon Cat, The Long Spoon, The Countess Kathleen O'Shea, The Three Wishes.++++ Giants - The Giant's Stairs, A Legend of Knockmany.++++ Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers, The Twelve Wild Geese, The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts, The Haughty Princess, The Enchantment of Geaeoidh Iarla, Munachar and Manacher, Donald and His Neighbors, The Jackdaw, The Story of Conn-eda; or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne. ++++ Plus eight pages of notes on the stories. *** Look for other Fairy Books from Flying Chipmunk Publishing!