{"product_id":"2940016774930","title":"Irish Fairy and Folk Tales","description":"Dr. Corbett, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, lamented long ago the departure of the English fairies. \"In Queen Mary's time\" he wrote—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When Tom came home from labour,Or Cis to milking rose,Then merrily, merrily went their tabor,And merrily went their toes.\"\u003cbr\u003eBut now, in the times of James, they had all gone, for \"they were of the old profession,\" and \"their songs were Ave Maries.\" In Ireland they are still extant, giving gifts to the kindly, and plaguing the surly. \"Have you ever seen a fairy or such like?\" I asked an old man in County Sligo. \"Amn't I annoyed with them,\" was the answer. \"Do the fishermen along here know anything of the mermaids?\" I asked a woman of a village in County Dublin. \"Indeed, they don't like to see them at all,\" she answered, \"for they always bring bad weather.\" \"Here is a man who believes in ghosts,\" said a foreign sea-captain, pointing to a pilot of my acquaintance. \"In every house over there,\" said the pilot, pointing to his native village of Rosses, \"there are several.\" Certainly that now old and much respected dogmatist, the Spirit of the Age, has in no  manner made his voice heard down there. In a little while, for he has gotten a consumptive appearance of late, he will be covered over decently in his grave, and another will grow, old and much respected, in his place, and never be heard of down there, and after him another and another and another. Indeed, it is a question whether any of these personages will ever be heard of outside the newspaper offices and lecture-rooms and drawing-rooms and eel-pie houses of the cities, or if the Spirit of the Age is at any time more than a froth. At any rate, whole troops of their like will not change the Celt much. Giraldus Cambrensis found the people of the western islands a trifle paganish. \"How many gods are there?\" asked a priest, a little while ago, of a man from the Island of Innistor. \"There is one on Innistor; but this seems a big place,\" said the man, and the priest held up his hands in horror, as Giraldus had, just seven centuries before. Remember, I am not blaming the man; it is very much better to believe in a number of gods than in none at all, or to think there is only one, but that he is a little sentimental and impracticable, and not constructed for the nineteenth century. The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much—indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are averse to sitting down to dine thirteen at table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, or seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tail. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, though even a newspaper man, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching.\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS (excerpt):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TROOPING FAIRIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      The Fairies\u003cbr\u003e      Frank Martin and the Fairies\u003cbr\u003e      The Priest's Supper\u003cbr\u003e      The Fairy Well of Lagnanay\u003cbr\u003e      Teig O'Kane and the Corpse\u003cbr\u003e      Paddy Corcoran's Wife\u003cbr\u003e      Cusheen Loo\u003cbr\u003e      The White Trout; A Legend of Cong\u003cbr\u003e      The Fairy Thorn\u003cbr\u003e      The Legend of Knockgrafton\u003cbr\u003e      A Donegal Fairy\u003cbr\u003e   Changelings\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Brewery of Egg-shells\u003cbr\u003e      The Fairy Nurse\u003cbr\u003e      Jamie Freel and the Young Lady\u003cbr\u003e      The Stolen Child\u003cbr\u003e   The Merrow\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Soul Cages\u003cbr\u003e      Flory Cantillon's Funeral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SOLITARY FAIRIES\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker\u003cbr\u003e      Master and Man\u003cbr\u003e      Far Darrig in Donegal\u003cbr\u003e      The Piper and the Puca\u003cbr\u003e      Daniel O'Rourke\u003cbr\u003e      The Kildare Pooka\u003cbr\u003e      How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee\u003cbr\u003e      A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald\u003cbr\u003e      The Banshee of the MacCarthys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGHOSTS\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      A Dream\u003cbr\u003e      Grace Connor\u003cbr\u003e      A Legend of Tyrone\u003cbr\u003e      The Black Lamb\u003cbr\u003e      The Radiant Boy\u003cbr\u003e      The Fate of Frank M'Kenna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Bewitched Butter (Donegal)\u003cbr\u003e      A Queen's County Witch\u003cbr\u003e      The Witch Hare\u003cbr\u003e      Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)\u003cbr\u003e      The Horned Women\u003cbr\u003e      The Witches' Excursion\u003cbr\u003e      The Confessions of Tom Bourke\u003cbr\u003e      The Pudding Bewitched\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT'YEER-NA-N-OGE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Legend of O'Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e      Rent-Day\u003cbr\u003e      Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)\u003cbr\u003e      Hy-Brasail.—The Isle of the Blest\u003cbr\u003e      The Phantom Isle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAINTS, PRIESTS\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Priest's Soul\u003cbr\u003e      The Priest of Coloony\u003cbr\u003e      The Story of the Little Bird\u003cbr\u003e      Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters\u003cbr\u003e      King O'Toole and his Goose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEVIL\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e      The Demon Cat","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179748507888,"sku":"2940016774930","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016774930_p0.jpg?v=1763641508","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016774930","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}