Lady Gregory records in their own words what the country people around Kiltartan told her: herbs, charms and wise women, people led astray and treasure found, banshees and warnings, the fighting of the fairy hosts, and the unquiet dead. W. B. Yeats adds notes and essays on what these beliefs reveal.
The second half of a classic of Irish folklore, full of the cadence of Hiberno-English speech. Download the free EPUB.