W B. Yeats’s writings on folk and fairy lore can mostly be found in the two collections of tales from which this volume has been drawn, in The Celtic Twilight (now included in the volume Miscellanies), in Lady Gregory’s Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (2nd edition, 1970), and in the two volumes of his Uncollected Prose (ed. John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson, 1975). The first volume of his Collected Letters (ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville, 1986) covers the period (1865–1895) of his most intense interest in folklore.
Folklorists can find their way about the Irish material by using three technical guides, A Bibliography of Irish Ethnology and Folk Tradition by Caoimhín Ó Danachair (1978), A Handbook of Irish Folklore by Seán Ó Súilleabháin and The Types of the Irish Folktale by Seán Ó Súilleabháin and Reidar Th. Christiansen (1967)
Footnotes
6: A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANY
1 A common name for the cloud or rack that hangs, as a forerunner of wet weather, about the peak of a mountain
2 There is upon the top of this hill an opening that bears a very strong resemblance to the crater of an extinct volcano.
12: MASTER AND MAN
3 A festival held in honour of some patron saint
15: THE HORNED WOMEN
4 Sliábh-na-mban – i.e., mountains of the women
17: THE SOUL CAGES
5 sowkins, diminutive of soul
6 Recté, doech án dorrus – door-drink or stirrup-cup
19: THE ENCHANTMENT OF EARL GERALD
8 The last time Gearoidh Iarla appeared the horse-shoes were as thin as a sixpence.
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