Irish Wonders

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally, Jr. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: Irish Wonders Author: D. R. McAnally, Jr. Release Date: October 7, 2006 [Ebook 19486] Language: English ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRISH WONDERS*** "GOD SAVE YER HOLINESS." Frontispiece. Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally, Jr. Edition 1, (October 7, 2006) THE GHOSTS, GIANTS, POOKAS, DEMONS, LEPRECHAWNS, BANSHEES, FAIRIES, WITCHES, WIDOWS, OLD MAIDS, AND OTHER MARVELS OF THE EMERALD ISLE Popular Tales as told by the People WEATHERVANE BOOKS - NEW YORK vi Irish Wonders Copyright © MDCCCLXXXVIII Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-72113 All rights reserved. This edition is published by Weathervane Books a division of Imprint Society, Inc., distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc. a b c d e f g h IN MEMORY OF YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP, This Volume IS INSCRIBED TO MR. JOSEPH B. McCULLAGH, AS A MODEST TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL RESPECT. PREFACE. The wonderful imaginative power of the Celtic mind is never more strikingly displayed than in the legends and fanciful tales which people of the humbler walks of life seldom tire of telling.