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by Bob Curran


  amusements of, 127-128

  bodies of, 124

  dress of, 124

  encounters with the, 115-119

  general description of, 195-203

  homes of, 127

  in Irish folklore, the, 113-114

  male, 125

  names given to, 66

  ointment to see, 133-134

  places of the, 20

  social aspects of, 123

  fairies and

  Christianity, 139-140

  human children, 173-175

  human qualities, 231-232

  humans as neighbors, 133

  men of second sight, 197

  and Men, contact between, 113-114

  fairy brides and mortal men Welsh legends, 72-84

  fairy kind, 63

  in Ireland, 121

  fairy ladies and mortal men, 69-72

  Fairy Mythology, 65

  fairy realm, questions about, 193

  festivals, 15-16

  Findabair, 26-27

  folktales and legends in Celtic society, 97-99

  Fraech, 24, 26

  funeral, phantom, 190-192

  G

  Gab Lucas, 184-186

  Garth Uchaf, Llanuwchllyn

  Giants Causeway, the, 47

  giants, 47-48, 85-86

  Gigmagog, 48, 50-52

  Gilbert, C.S., 39

  Glasynys, 77-78

  Good People, the, 113, 114

  Gors Goch Changeling Legend, The, 178-179

  Greath Myth Cycles, 9, 11, 16

  Gregory, Lady Augusta, 20, 114, 115

  Gwyll, 67

  H

  Hawker, Reverend Robert Stephen, 268

  Hogg, James, 232

  Hunt, Robert, 34, 48, 134

  I

  invaders of the Celtic peoples, 53

  Ireland, fairy kind in, 121

  Irish mythology and the “good people,” 122

  Irish Wonders, excerpt from, 122-131

  iron and the fairy bride, 73, 75

  J

  Jones, Rev. Owen, 72, 77

  Jones, Reverend Edmund, 188

  K

  King Arthur, 46

  and the giants, 48

  “King Arthur’s Stone,” 46

  Kirk, Reverend Robert, 193-195

  L

  Land’s End, 42, 44

  Le Braz, Anatole, 182

  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 208

  “Legend of Knockgrafton, The,” 148

  Llanfrothen Legend, The, 81

  Llanfwrog Changeling Legend, 177-178

  Lochlann, King of, 55, 56

  Logan Rock, 35, 43

  moving of the, 37

  love charms, 210-211

  Lovecraft, H.P., 207

  M

  Mabinogion, 17

  Machen, Arthur, 207-208

  magical stones, 33-34

  marbh bheo, 98, 251-252

  Martin, Martin, 164

  McAnally, Dr. David Rice, 122

  McClour, Janet, 255-265

  McCumhaill, Fion, 47

  McDonald, Angus, 54

  Men-an-Tol, the, 40-41

  “Men of the West,” 268

  Merlin, Ambrose, 38

  Merodach, 235-250

  Midnight Washerwomen, 148

  Mulholland, Rosa, 212

  Muller, Max, 70

  Myddfai Legend, The, 78

  Myddvai Legend, The, 79-84

  N

  Nera, 29-31

  night dancers at the

  crossroads, 149-152

  “Nine Maids, The,” 42-43

  “Not to Be Taken at Bedtime,” 212-229

  “Notes on Y Tylwyth Teg,” excerpt from, 64

  O

  Observations on the Snowdon Mountains, 74, 75

  ointment to see fairies, 133-134, 135

  Otherworld, the, 181

  as place of the dead, 251

  Owen, Baron, 82

  Owen, Elias, 64, 77, 79, 175

  P

  Pellings, 77

  Pentrevoleas Legend, The, 72-75

  phantoms and ghosts, 267-268

  Plant Annwfn, 67

  Portuni, 68-69

  Presbyterianism, 233

  priest and the fairies, a, 145-146

  prognostication and the Celts, 163, 187

  R

  “Relation of Ghosts and Apparitions, A” excerpt from, 188-192

  Ring of Gyges, the, 200

  Ring of Kingussie, 34

  “Romances of the Rocks,” excerpt from, 34-46

  Rumpelstiltskin, 75

  S

  Saxon kings and the Table-men, 44

  Scawen, 38, 39

  seanachie, 8, 9-10, 98

  “second sight, the,” 163-164

  description of, 164-172

  Secret Commonwealth, The, 194

  excerpt from, 195-203

  sheehogues, 97, 98

  Sidhe, 19, 98

  and heroes, 63

  Siths, 195

  Soulis, Reverend Murdoch, 252-265

  St. Madron’s Well, 108-111

  Stephens and the cromlechs, C. Taylor, 39-40

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 252

  Stoker, Bram, 208

  Stonehenge, 34

  stories, oral, 15

  storytellers, traditional local, 98

  storytelling, 15

  T

  Table-men, 43-44

  Tains Bo Cuailnge, 17

  taish, see “second sight, the.”

  Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster, excerpt from, 154-162

  “Thrawn Janet,” 252-265

  thresholds in Celtic lore, 147

  Traditions of West Cornwall,

  selections from, 102-105

  Trereen Dinas, rock mass at, 36-37

  Tuatha de Danaan, 63

  twelve o’clock stone, 43

  Tylwyth Teg, 178

  V

  Van Lake Legend, see Myddfai

  Legend, The Vikings and the Celts, 53-54

  “Virgin Sisters, The,” 42-43

  W

  Welsh changeling legends, 173-180

  Welsh Folk-lore, selections from, 175-180

  Welsh legends of fairy brides and

  mortal men, 72-75

  Welsh Taboo story, 78

  Welsh Tylwth Teg, 64

  “West Country Superstitions,” excerpt from, 108-111

  Wheelhope, Lady, 232-250

  Williams, 74, 75, 77-78

  Wolf of Badenoch, 34

  writers and the storytelling tradition, 207

  X

  X-Files, 209

  Y

  Y Tylwyth Teg, 66, 68

  Ystrad Legend, The, 75-79

  Z

  Zennor coits, 39

  About the Author

  Dr. Bob Curran was born in a rural area of County Down, Northern Ireland. On leaving school he worked at many jobs, including journalism, music, truck driving, and grave digging. He travelled in America, North Africa, and Holland before returning to Northern Ireland to settle down and obtain degrees in history and education and a doctorate in Educational Psychology. From his early years, he has been interested in folktales and legends and has made a study of these, writing widely in books and magazines. His work has been printed in his native Ireland, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Still lecturing and teaching, he lives in County Derry with his wife and young family.

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