Lady Gregory 
The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection [EPUB ebook] 

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of Celtic folklore:Legends and Stories of Ireland- Samuel Lover Glossary King O’Toole and St Kevin Lough Corrib A Legend of Lough Mask The White Trout The Battle of the Berrins; or, the Double Funeral Father Roach The Priest’s Story The King and the Bishop Jimmy the Fool The Catastrophe The Devil’s Mill The Gridiron; or Paddy Mullowney’s Travels in France Paddy the Piper The Priest’s Ghost New Potatoes Paddy the Sport The White Horse of the Peppers The Legend of the Little Weaver of Duleek Gate Conclusion of the White Horse of the Peppers The Curse of Kishogue The Fairy Finder Cuchulain of Muirthemne- Lady Gregory Preface by W. B. Yeats I. Birth of Cuchulain II. Boy Deeds of Cuchulain III. Courting of Emer IV. Bricrius Feast V. The Championship of Ulster VI. The High King of Ireland VII. Fate of the Sons of Usnach VIII. Dream of Angus Og IX. Cruachan X. The Wedding of Maine Morgor XI. The War for the Bull of Cuilagne XII. Awakening of Ulster XIII. The Two Bulls XIV. The Only Jealously of Emer XV. Advice to a Prince XVI. Sons of Doel Dermait XVII. Battle of Rosnaree XVIII. The Only Son of Aoife XIX. The Great Gathering at Muirthemne XX. Death of Cuchulain Note by W.B. Yeats Notes by Lady Gregory The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel The Cattle-Raid of Cooley Gods and Fighting Men- Lady Gregory The Celtic Twilight- W. B. Yeats Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy Preface Dedication Household Stories Jac and His Comrades The Bad Stepmother Adventures of Gilla na Chreck an Gour Jack the Master and Jack the Servant I’ll be Wiser the next Time The Three Crowns The Corpse Watchers The Brown Bear of Norway The Goban Saor The Three Advices which the King with the Red Soles gave to his Son Legends of the ‘Good People’The Fairy Child The Changeling and his Bagpipes The Tobinstown Sheeoge The Belated Priest The Palace in the Rath The Breton Version of the Palace in the Rath The Fairy Nurse The Recovered Bride Faction-fight among the Fairies Jemmy Doyle in the Fairy Palace The Fairy Cure The Sea Fairies The Black Cattle of Durzy Island The Silkie Wife The Pooka of Murroe The Kildare Pooka The Kildare Lurikeen The Adventures of the ‘Son of Bad Counsel’Witchcaft, Socery, Ghosts and Fetches The Long Spoon The Prophet before his Time The Bewitched Churn The Ghosts and the Game of Football The Cat of the Carman’s Stage Cauth Morisy looking for Service Black Stairs on Fire The Witches Excursion The Crock found in the Rath The Enchantment of Gearhoidh Iarla Illan Eachtach and the Lianan The Misfortunes of Barrett the Piper The Woman in White The Queen’s County Ghost The Ghost in Graigue Droochan’s Ghost The Kiranelagh Spirit The Doctor’s Fetch The Apparition in Old Ross Ossianic and Early Legends Fann Mac Cuil and the Scotch Giant How Fann Mac Cuil and his Men were Bewitched Qualifications and Duties of the Fianna Eirionn The Battle of Ventry Harbour The Fight of Castle Knoc The Youth of Fion Fion’s First Marriage How Fion selected a Wife Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne The Flight of the Sluggard Beanriogain na Sciana Breaca Conan’s Delusions in Ceash The Youth of Oisin The Old Age of Oisin Legend of Loch na Piasta The King with the Horse’s Ears The Story of the Sculloge’s Son from Muskerry Fios Fath an Aaon Sceil An Broan Suan Or The Children of Lir Lough Neagh Killarney Legend of the Lake of Inchiquin How the Shannon acquired its Name The Origin of the Lake of Tiis The Building of Ardfert Cathredral How Donaghedee got its Name The Borrowed Lake Kilstoheen in the Shannon The Isle of the Living Fionnutuin Mac Bochna The Firbolgs and Danaans Inis na Muic The Bath of the White Cows The Quest for the Tain-Bo-Cuilagne The Progress of the Wicked Bard Legends of the Celtic Saints St Patrick How St Patrick received the Staff of Jesus The Fortune of Dichu St Patrick’s Contest with the Druids The Baptism of Aongus The Decision of the Chariot Conversion of the Robber Chief, Macaldus Baptism after Death The Vision of St Brigid Death and Burial of St Patrick The Corpse-freighted Barque St Brigid’s Cloak St Brigid and the Harps Arran of the Saints and its Patrons St Feancheas’s Visit to Arran St Brendain’s Voyage The Island of the Birds The Sinner Saved A Legend of St Mogue of Ferns O’ Carroll’s Warning How St Eloi was cured of Pride St Lateerin of Cullin Celtic Wonder Tales- Ella Young The Earth Shapers The Spear of Victory A Good Action How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Sold the Sheepskin How the Son of Gobhaun Saor Shortened the Road The Cow of Plenty The Coming of Lugh The Eric-Fine of Lugh The Great Battle Inisfail The Golden Fly The Children of Lir The Luck-Child Conary Mor Beside the Fire- Douglas Hyde Preface Postscript (by Alfred Nutt)Dedication The Tailor and the Three Beasts Bran The King of Ireland’s Son The Alp-Luachra Paudyeen O’Kelly and the Weasel Leeam O’Rooney’s Burial Guleesh na Guss Dhu The Well of D’Yerree-In-Dowan The Court of Crinnawn Neil O’Carree Trunk-Without-Head The Hags of the Long Teeth William of the Tree The Old Crow & The Young Crow Riddles The King of Ireland’s Son- Padraic Colum Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill The Boyhood of Fionn The Birth of Bran Oisin’s Mother The Wooing of Becfola The Little Brawl at Allen The Carl of the Drab Coat The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran Mongan’s Frenzy Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland- Jeremiah Curtin The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Lein The Three Daughters of King O’Hara The Weaver’s Don and the Giant of the White Hill Fair, Brown and Trembling The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island The Shee an Gannon and the Grugach Gaire The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin The Fisherman’s Son and the Grugach of Tricks The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin Kil Arthur Shaking-Head Birth of Fin Mac Cumhail Fin Mac Cumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh Fin Mac Cumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe Gilla na Grakin and Fin Mac Cumhail Fin Mac Cumhail The Seven Brothers and the King of France Black, Brown and Gray Fin Mac Cumhail and the Son of the King of Alba Cuculin Oisin in Tir Na N-Og Notes Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland- Lady Gregory Preface Sea Stories Seers and Healers The Evil Eye–The Touch–The Penalty Away Herbs, Charms and Wise Women Astray and Treasure Banshees and Warnings In the Way The Fighting of the Friends The Unquiet Dead Appearances Butter The Fool of the Forth Forths and Sheoguey Places Blacksmiths Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts Friars and Priest Cures Notes (W.B. Yeats) Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (W.B. Yeats) Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places (W.B. Yeats) The Mabinogion- Lady Charlotte Guest Prolegomena to the Study of Old Welsh Poetry- Edward Anwyl The Gododdin Poems- William F. Skene British Goblins- Wirt Sikes The Welsh Fairy Book- W. Jenkyn Thomas Preface Notes on Welsh Pronunciation The Lady of the Lake Arthur in the Cave The Curse of the Pantannas The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred Elidyr’s Sojurn in Fairy Land Rhys and Llywelyn Lowri Dafydd Earns a Purse of Gold The Llanfabon Changeling Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales Lyn Cwm Llwch The Adventures of Three Farmers Cadwaladr and his Goat The Fairy Wife Einion and the Lady of the Greenwood The Green Isles of the Ocean March’s Ears The Fairy Harp Guto Bach and the Fairies Ianto’s Chase The Stray Cow Bala Lake The Forbidden Fountain Tudur ap Einion The Fairy Walking Stick Dick the Fiddler’s Money A Strange Otter Fairy Ointment Pergrin and the Mermaiden The Cave of the Young Men of Snowdonia Einion and the Fair Family St Collen and the King of Fairy Helig’s Hollow Owen Goes A-Wooing The Fairy Reward Why Deunant has the Front Door in the Back Getting Rid of Fairies The Mantle of Kings’ Beards Pedws Ffowk and St. Elian’s Well Magic Music Sili go Dwt Another Changeling A Fairy Borrowing Treasure Seeking The Richest Man St. Beuno and the Curlew The Cat Witches The Swallowed Court What Marged Rolant Saw Ned Puw’s Farewell Pennard Castle The Man with the Green Weeds Goronwy Tudor and the Witches of Llanddons Robin’s Return The Harper’s Gratuity Six and Four are Ten Envy Burns Itself The Bride from the Red Lake A Fairy Dog Grace’s Well The Fairy Password St. Winifred’s Well The Ancients of the World Nansi Llwyd and the Dog of Darkness An Adventure in the Big Bog The Pwca of the Trwyn John Gethin and the Candle Fetching a Halter Dai Sion’s Homecoming Melangell’s Lambs Syfaddon Lake The Power of St Tegla’s Well The Men of Ardudwy The Parti-coloured Cow Striking a Corpse Candle Hu Gadarn The Devil’s Bridge The Martyred Hound Twm of the Fair Lies Black Robin Llyn Llech Owen A Ghostly Rehersal A Phantom’s Funeral Why the Robin’s Breast is Red The Science of Fairy Tales – Edwin Sidney Hartland Fairies- Gertrude M. Faulding Celtic Fairy Tales- Joseph Jacobs Connla and the Fairy Maiden Guleesh The Field of Boliauns The Horned Women Conall Yellowclaw Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary The Shepherd of Myddvai The Sprightly Tailor The Story of Deirdre Munachar and Manachar Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree King O’Toole and his Goose The Wooing of Olwen Jack and his Comrades The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire The Story-Teller at Fault The Sea-Maiden A Legend of Knockmany Fair, Brown and Trembling Jack and his Master Beth Gellert The Tale of Ivan Andrew Coffey The Battle of the Birds Brewery of Eggshells The Lad with the Goat-Skin Notes and References Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race- Thomas Rolleston On the Study of Celtic Literature- Matthew Arnold