The Mythology of the British Islands / An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance

by Charles Squire

CELTIC FAIRY AND FOLK LORE

GAELIC

T. Crofton Croker.—Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.

This book is one of the earliest, and, if not the most scientific, perhaps the most attractive of the many collections of Irish fairy-lore. Later compilations are Mr. William Larminie’s

“West Irish Folktales and Romances”, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin’s “Hero Tales of Ireland”, “Myths and Folklore of Ireland”, and “Tales of the Fairies, collected in South Munster”. On the Scotch side, notice should be particularly taken of Campbell’s “Popular Tales of the West Highlands” and the volumes entitled “Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition”. All these books are either recent or recently republished, and are merely selected out of a large list of works, valuable and otherwise, upon this lighter side of Celtic mythology.

BRITISH

John Rhys.—Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx. 2 vols. Oxford, 1901.

Wirt Sikes.—British Goblins: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions. By Wirt Sikes, United States Consul for Wales. London, 1880.