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Fairy Power, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... , Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland 1888 It is on Fridays that the fairies have the most power to work evil; therefore Friday is an unlucky day ...
The Fairy Spy, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... Francesca Wilde Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland 1888 Sometimes the fairies appear like old men and women, and thus gain admission to houses that ...
Legends of the Dead in the Western Islands, from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde
... were remarkable for beauty, it is supposed that they are carried off by the fairies to the fairy mansions under the earth, where they live in splendid palaces ...
The 1891 second edition of Patrick Kennedy's classic work
... of the Palace in the Rath The Fairy Nurse The Recovered Bride Faction-Fight among the Fairies Jemmy Doyle in the Fairy Palace The Fairy Cure The Sea Fairies The Black ...
From 'Ireland: Her Wit, Peculiarities and Popular Superstitions'
... nurse seen in the island for many a day. Now the king of the fairies had a child about the same age, or a little older; but ...
The Legend of O'Donoghue, from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by Thomas Crofton Croker
... maidens, who moved lightly and unconstrained over the watery plain, as the moonlight fairies glide through the fields of air; they were linked together by garlands of ...
Dreaming Tim Jarvis, from Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by Thomas Crofton Croker
... concluded his tale by telling me that the next day after his ride with the fairies Mick Dowling was missing, and he believed him to be given to the ...
From Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, narrated by Patrick Kennedy
... he made was in favour of cures for diseases inflicted by evil spirits or by fairies. She found the lady of the castle in a bed with pillows and ...
From 'Ireland: Her Wit, Peculiarities and Popular Superstitions'
... and the very sites of many of these localities are at present unknown. The fairies, the whole pantheon of Irish demigods are retiring, one by one, ...
The Irish Fer-side and Banshee, from A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland, by P. W. Joyce, 1906
... ] of Craglea. Cleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the fairies of South Munster. In the Dinnsenchus there is an ancient and pathetic story ...