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Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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.

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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 1974 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World

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:

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World  Coll  from Oral Trad  in South West M  nster

Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World Coll from Oral Trad in South West M nster written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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 2021-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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]

Book Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World

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.

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World Illustrated

Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World Illustrated written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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:

Book Tales of the Fairies  and of the Ghost World

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.

Book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World

Download or read book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book Tales of Fairies and of the Ghost World Scholar s Choice Edition written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World  annotated

Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World annotated written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

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 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World

Download or read book Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible