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Celtic
Folklore
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Fairy and
Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
W.
B. Yeats (Editor)
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Celtic Fairy
Tales
Joseph
Jacobs (Editor), John D. Batten
(Illustrator)
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Classic
Celtic Fairy Tales
John
Matthews (Introduction), Ian
Daniels (Illustrator)
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A Celtic
Christmas : Classic Tales from
the Emerald Isle
Mairtin
O'Griofa (Editor), Mairton
O'Griofa (Editor)
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The Banshee
: The Irish Death Messenger
Patricia
Lysaght
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Reviews
The
banshee, the female supernatural
death-messenger, is the legendary
herald of death in Ireland.
Through analysis of folklore
sources, a comprehensive picture
of the banshee emerges, and the
functions of the belief in this
remarkable creature of the folk
imagination are examined. Many
issues associated with attitudes
toward life and death are
expressed through the banshee
tradition, and changes in such
attitudes down through the ages
are also revealed in changing
beliefs about the banshee's
presence and activity. This book
unravels that network of beliefs,
drawing on a large body of oral
and written sources, including
literary accounts from the Old
Irish period to the present, as
well as folklore accounts
collected over the past sixty
years. Recent fieldwork brings
the study up-to-date, showing
that in many instances belief in
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Celtic Tales
of Terror
Marlene
Ekman (Illustrator), Mairtin
O'Griofa (Editor)
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Folktales of
the Irish Countryside
Kevin
Danaher
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Gruesome
Irish Tales
Edmund
Lenihan, Eddie Lenihan
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A History of
Irish Fairies
Carolyn
White
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Irish Cures,
Mystic Charms, and Superstitions
Marlene
Ekman (Illustrator), Lady Wilde
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Irish
Popular Superstitions
Marlene
Ekman (Illustrator), William R.,
Sir Wilde
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