Irish Tales Of The Fairies And The Ghost World

Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486411392
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.

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Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479443190
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Fairies, and of the Ghost-World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected from the oral tradition in South-West Munster, England, here are tales of the fairy-folk and ghosts passed down through the generations through oral story-telling.

Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505784541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF we were asked to designate by a single epithet most of the stories in this little volume, that epithet would be weird. Within the compass of an equal number of pages we hardly know a collection of folk-lore, at any rate of recent date, containing so many thoroughly uncanny stories. Mr. Curtin is an indefatigable and successful collector. Hitherto his publications have been of märchen and hero-tales allied to märchen in their Celtic magnificence and repudiation of the conventions of ordinary romance. The present volume deals with sagas which, told, as they usually are in Ireland, among a believing peasantry, must go near to making "each particular hair to stand an-end," must at least rouse the imagination of the hearers and surround them with terrible sights and sounds long strange to us who dwell in the garish daylight of a different world. All the stories, it is true, are not of this kind. Some of them witness to a livelier humour, such as we meet in the tales told from East to West of woman's tricks and woman's wiles. But they bear a small proportion to the rest, and even they are touched with the same uncanny tone. Scientifically the chief question raised by the stories, as pointed out by Mr. Alfred Nutt in his excellent preface, is that of the connection between the different classes of supernatural beings. The attributes of a ghost-that is to say, the spirit of a dead man-are indistinguishable from those of a fairy. Witches are not brought so prominently before us as ghosts and fairies; it is equally certain, however, from what we know elsewhere, that the attributes of witches and of fairies are often confounded, if, indeed, they be not the same. We have lately had before our eyes an example in the "Witch-burning" case at Clonmel. The unfortunate woman who was burnt to death was regarded as a fairy changeling, but she seems to have been spoken of indifferently as a witch. We must turn to savage beliefs for an explanation of this. There we find no distinction between the powers of disembodied human spirits and those of other mysterious beings; and the same powers are capable of being acquired by shamans, medicine-men, or whatever else they may be called. The fact seems to be that, although in process of time distinctions have been evolved between different classes of supernatural existences, the evolution has been imperfect, and much remains of their common character. The volume before us comprises, of course, many variants of tales already well known, while others appear to be quite new. All are told with freshness; and most of them illustrate with striking force Mr. Curtin's statement that the beliefs to which they relate " are among the main articles of faith for a good number of the old people" still living. Scattered up and down are interesting observations on the practices of the peasantry, those on funeral customs and the superstitions attaching to the clothes of the dead being specially worth study. We have our doubts whether Mr. Curtin possesses the qualifications for "a connected and systematic account of Gaelic mythic belief and legend" for which Mr. Nutt longs at his hands. But that he has many of the qualities of a successful investigator as well as of a first-rate collector his books amply prove, and the Tales of the Fairies is not the least among his books in this respect. -Folklore, Volume 6 [1895]

Author : Carolyn White
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780786715398
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Irish Fairies written by Carolyn White and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich compendium of information on Irish fairies covers a wide range of related issues, including clothes and appearance, immortality, personality, and demonic powers of cluricauns, leprechauns, Silkies, Banshees, and Pookas.

Author : St John D. Seymour
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Irish Ghost Stories written by St John D. Seymour and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of different ghost and supernatural phenomena retold to the authors of this book and collected by them in different parts of Ireland. Yet the authors of this book remain objective, so it doesn't have any additional literary tricks employed to make the read feel like fiction. Once the British Isles characterize by a huge number of ghost stories and ghost lore is one of local peculiarities, the accounts in the book are perceived and presented like real. For example, there is even a story about a legal case regarding a haunted house, where the court ruled that the damages of the house should be perceived as such that are caused by a ghost. A truly interesting read for anyone who fancies supernatural and blood-chilling stories.

Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239424
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairies written by Richard Sugg and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t be fooled by Tinkerbell and her pixie dust—the real fairies were dangerous. In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from the Fallen Angels and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, fairies caused ordinary people to flee their homes out of fear, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on in places well into the twentieth century. Often associated with witchcraft and black magic, fairies were also closely involved with reports of ghosts and poltergeists. In literature and art, the fairies still retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, Christina Rosetti’s improbably erotic poem “Goblin Market,” or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years, the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. As changeable as changelings themselves, fairies have transformed over time like no other supernatural beings. And in this book, Richard Sugg tells the story of how the fairies went from terror to Tink.

Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751501544
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Ghosts and Hauntings written by Michael Scott and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1994-05-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Ireland' s past that so haunts the imagination? More than one answer can be found in Michael Scott's powerful new collection of 29 tales. To start with, in a newly Christianized Ireland, monks do battle with a devilish monster that has killed a river. All the water in this collection, from rivers to lakes, conceal dangers that men and women would best avoid. Ready to tempt Ireland' s new conquerors -- humankind-- supernatural forces hide beneath waves, in bogs, in the very land, waiting. With his usual inventiveness, Michael Scott juxtaposes the old and the new, the ancient and modern, showing that in everyday situations, the curses of Ireland' s mythic past lie imp- like, threatening destruction.

Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: