By Lady Gregory
DRAMA
Seven Short Plays
Folk-History Plays, 2 vols.
New Comedies
The Image
The Golden Apple
Our Irish Theatre. A Chapter of Autobiography
IRISH FOLK LORE AND LEGEND
Visions and Beliefs, 2 vols.
Cuchulain of Muirthemne
Gods and Fighting Men
Saints and Wonders
Poets and Dreamers
The Kiltartan Poetry Book
Ballylee Castle
From a sepia drawing by Robert Gregory
VISIONS AND BELIEFS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY LADY GREGORY: WITH TWO ESSAYS AND NOTES BY W.B. YEATS
"There's no doubt at all but that there's the same sort of things in other countries; but you hear more about them in these parts because the Irish do be more familiar in talking of them."
SECOND SERIES
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1920
Copyright, 1920
by
LADY GREGORY
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
[CONTENTS]
| page | |
| I.—Herbs, Charms, and Wise Women | [3] |
| II.—Astray, and Treasure | [29] |
| III.—Banshees and Warnings | [45] |
| IV.—In the Way | [65] |
| V.—The Fighting of the Friends | [77] |
| VI.—The Unquiet Dead | [89] |
| VII.—Appearances | [111] |
| VIII.—Butter | [189] |
| IX.—The Fool of the Forth | [195] |
| X.—Forths and Sheoguey Places | [205] |
| XI.—Blacksmiths | [239] |
| XII.—Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts | [245] |
| XIII.—Friars and Priest Cures | [281] |
| Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places | [295] |
| Notes | [343] |