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The Feine, or Fenians, from Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, by John O'Hart
... or make a sufficient stand against the Danish and Anglo-Norman invaders of after times. Fairies The Flight of the Earls Contents Genealogy page ...
The Butter Mystery, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... that you did, but this is how it happened. Long ago, the fairies passing through your land had a dispute and fought a battle, and having ...
Brigit, Irish Goddess of Poets, Poetry and Wisdom, from A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland, by P. W. Joyce, 1906
... his airy palace on the top of Knockfierna, as the renowned king of the fairies: and here he ruled over all the great Limerick plain around the mountain ...
Traditions of the Tuatha De Dananns, from An Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868, by Sister Mary Frances Clare (Margaret Anne Cusack), The Nun of Kenmare, with illustrations by Henry Doyle
... in Ireland where the Tuatha Dé Dananns were then supposed to live as sprites and fairies, with corporeal and material forms, but endued with immortality. The inference ...
Mysteries of Fairy Power: The Evil Stroke, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... lucky in some ways to have a fairy-stricken child in the house, for the fairies generally did a good turn by the family to compensate for the evil. ...
The Editor's Preface, from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by Thomas Crofton Croker
... Essay on Fairy Mythology by the Brothers Grimm, and some collections relating to the fairies of Wales. This volume was intended to gratify the interest in the subject ...
Superstitions concerning the Dead, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... western islands of Connemara. At night the dead can be heard laughing with the fairies and spinning the flax. One girl declared that she distinctly heard her dead ...
Various Superstitions and Cures (3), from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... the hen is stoned, for it is believed that she is bewitched by the fairies. It is asserted that on Christmas morning the ass kneels down in adoration ...
From Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, narrated by Patrick Kennedy
... of the human soul. The general belief of the peasantry is that the existing fairies are those angels who, without openly joining Satan in his rebellion, gave ...
Omens that forbode Evil, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... it on a Friday, nor fix a marriage, for of all days the fairies have the most malific power on a Friday. They are present then, ...
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