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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Classic Reprint)
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - Classic Reprint Author:Lady Gregory I SEA-STORIES 4C T'HE Celtic Twilight" was the first book of Mr. Yeats's that I read, and even before I met him, a little titne later, I had begun looking for news of the invisible world; for his stories were of Sligo and I felt jealous for Galway. This beginning of knowledge was a great excitement to me, for though I had heard all my life some ... more »talk of the faeries and the banshee (having indeed reason to believe in this last), I had never thought of giving heed to what I, in common with my class, looked on as fancy or superstition. It was certainly because of this unbelief that I had been told so little about them. Even when I began to gather these stories, I cared less for the evidence given in them than for the beautiful rhythmic 'sentences in which they were told. I had no theories, no case to prove, I but "held up a clean mirror to tradition." It is hard to tell sometimes what has been a real vision and what is tradition, a legend hanging in the air, a "v
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CONTENTS; I-SEA-STORIES ? ? ?; II-SEERS AND HEALERS ?; BIDDY EARLY; MRS SHERIDAN ?; MR SAGGARTON; II A GREAT WARRIOR IN THE BUSINESS; "; OLD DERUANE; IlL-THE EV1L EYE-THE TOUCH -THE; PENALTY; IV-AWAY; WITCHES AND WIZARDS AND IRISH FOLKPAGE; 3; 35; 35; 92; 103; 112; 127; LORE ' 247; NOTES
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