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You will love this book if you enjoy tales told around a fire, ghost stories with a sly smile, fairy lore, and the early work of a poet who listened to village voices.
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What would you do if twenty little men dropped a dead body on your back and ordered you to bury it before dawn? That is the fate of Teig O'Kane, a wild young man on a lonely Leitrim road. It is one scene among many in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
W. B. Yeats edited this collection as a young writer, eager to keep what country people still told. He chose the tales from earlier collectors, added poems, and arranged everything by kind of spirit. You get the whole spirit world of Ireland, from the merry host of the raths to the wailing Banshee on a bridge.
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- 1Yeats trusts the storyteller over the scientistFree
- 2Fairies are fallen angels or forgotten gods
- 3Fairies punish rudeness and reward good manners
- 4Stolen people and changelings haunt every household
- 5The sea has its own people and its own debts
- 6Solitary spirits are tricksters, shoemakers and shape-shifters
- 7The dead and the Banshee keep faith with the living
- 8Witches steal butter and fairy doctors heal
- 9Saints, priests and the devil share the stage
- 10Giants, kings and notes close the collection
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Yeats trusts the storyteller over the scientist
Yeats opens with a preface that argues for a way of listening. He says Irish country people still live among fairies, ghosts and mermaids, while the English fairies vanished long ago. A man in County Sligo answers a question about fairies by saying he has been troubled by them. Yeats treats such answers as plain facts about a living belief.
He advises any collector to be tactful and to make friends with children and old men. Old women know the most but say the least, because the fairies resent being talked about. His hero is Paddy Flynn, a small bright-eyed old man in a leaky cottage in Sligo. Paddy is deeply pious, yet he says he has seen the Banshee beating the river with its hands.
Yeats trusts Douglas Hyde most of all, because Hyde writes Gaelic tales down word for word. He refuses to explain away a single hobgoblin. These stories are best heard as the living voice of a people, not as specimens in a jar.
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What is Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry about?
It is a collection of Irish fairy tales, ghost stories, witch legends and folk poems, gathered by W. B. Yeats from earlier collectors and sorted by kind of spirit, from fairies and ghosts to saints and giants.
Is this a collection of true stories?
They are folk tales and local beliefs, told as the people told them. Yeats presents them as the living lore of the Irish countryside, and he declines to explain the spirits away.
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry.
Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry. (2026). Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry.
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