Ancient Legends of Ireland

Lady Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde

• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781649740229
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections

This beautiful keepsake edition of Ancient Legends of Ireland is lavishly illustrated with 22 period illustrations. While Lady Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde is probably best known for being Oscar Wilde's mother, she was a formidable writer in her own right. The people of Ireland owe Lady Wild a great debt for collecting and persevering folk-lore that might otherwise have been lost to them. The present work deals with the mythology, or the fantastic creed of the Irish respecting the invisible world and their strange and mystical superstitions, brought thousands of years ago from their Aryan home, but which still, even in the present time, affect all the modes of thinking and acting in the daily life of the people. Told with power as well as with simplicity ... a very interesting and readable collection of folk-lore.—Graphic. Lady Wilde's book is delightful.... Amongst those best acquainted with Irish folk-lore, legends, and mysteries, we believe few will be found capable of adding many words to pages which could only have been filled by an Irish woman lovingly treating such a subject.—Vanity Fair.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Horned Women
• The Legend of Ballytowtas Castle
• A Wolf Story
• The Evil Eye
• The Stolen Bride
• Fairy Music
• The Fairy Dance
• Fairy Justice: A Legend of Shark Island
• The Priest’s Soul
• The Fairy Race
• The Trial by Fire
• The Lady Witch
• Ethna the Bride
• The Fairies’ Revenge
• Fairy Help: The Phouka
• The Farmer Punished
• The Farmer’s Wife
• The Midnight Ride: A Peasant’s Tale
• The Leprehaun 7
• Legends of the Western Islands
• The Bride’s Death-Song
• The Child’s Dream
• The Fairy Child
• The Doom
• The Clearing from Guilt
• The Holy Well and the Murderer
• Legends of Innis-Sark: a Woman’s Curse
• Legends of the Dead in the Western Islands
• Superstitions Concerning the Dead
• The Fatal Love-Charm
• The Fenian Knights: A Legend of the West
• Rathlin Island
• The Strange Guests
• The Dead Soldier
• The Three Gifts
• The Fairies as Fallen Angels
• The Fairy Changeling
• Fairy Wiles
• Shaun-Mor: A Legend of Innis-Sark
• The Cave Fairies
• Evil Spells
• An Irish Adept of the Islands
• The May Festival
• May-Day Superstitions
• Festivals
• November Spells
• November Eve
• A Terrible Revenge
• Midsummer
• Marriage Rites
• The Dead
• The Wake Orgies
• The Ancient Mysteries
• The Power of the Word
• The Poet and the King
• The Sidhe Race
• Music
• Poet Inspiration: Eodain the Poetess
• The Banshee
• Queen Maeve
• Death Signs
• Superstitions
• The Fairy Rath
• Fairy Nature
• Irish Nature
• Legends of Animals
• Legends of the Saints
• Mysteries of Fairy Power
• The Holy Wells
• Popular Notions Concerning the Sidhe Race
• Sketches of the Irish Past
• On the Ancient Races of Ireland 20
• Footnotes