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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. Yeats (2005, Perfect)

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PublisherAegypan

ISBN-101598186566

ISBN-139781598186567

eBay Product ID (ePID)127357704

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Book TitleFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology

GenreSocial Science, Fiction

AuthorW. Yeats

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight19.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisAccording to Yeats the fear gorta walks the earth during times of famine, seeking alms from passers-by. In this version the fear gorta can be a potential source of good luck for generous individuals. If you are a stranger, you will not readily get ghost and fairy legends, even in a western village. You must go adroitly to work, and make friends with the children and the old men, with those who have not felt the pressure of mere daylight existence, and those with whom it is growing less, and will have altogether taken itself off one of these days. The old women are most learned, but will not so readily be got to talk, for the fairies are very secretive and much resent being talked of and are there not many stories of old women who were nearly pinched into their graves or numbed with fairy blasts. At sea, when the nets are out and the pipes are lit, then will some ancient hoarder of tales become loquacious, telling his histories to the tune of the creaking of the boats. Holy-eve night, too, is a great time, and in old days many tales were to be heard at wakes. But the priest have set their faces against wakes. In the Parochial Survey of Ireland it is recorded how the storytellers used to gather together of an evening and if any had a different version from the others, they would all recite theirs and vote and the man who had varied would have to abide by their verdict. In this way stories have been handed down with such accuracy, that the long tale of Dierdre was, in the earlier decades of this century, told almost word for word, as in the very ancient MSS. in the Royal Dublin Society.