Popular guide to folk beliefs, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside from one of Ireland's leading folkorists.

Nowhere in the nineteenth century did interest in folklore and mythology have a more thorough revival than in Ireland. There, in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza W

Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of