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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - First Series
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Mr. Fahy:
Well, that's what's believed, that it's from her son Biddy Early got it. After his death always lamenting for him she was, till he came back, and gave her the gift of curing.
She had no red eyes, but was a fresh clean-looking woman; sure any one might have red eyes when they'd got a cold.
She wouldn't refuse even a person that would come from the very bottom of the black North.
"I was with Biddy Early myself one time, and got a cure from her for my little girl that was sick.[Pg 46] A bottle of whiskey I brought her, and the first thing she did was to open it and to give me a glass out of it. "For," says she, "you'll maybe want it my poor man." But I had plenty o. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I do love the stories in this book; they're the inspiration behind my own fiction. The length is the only drawback, to be honest. There are many stories that are similar to each other, so to read over 300 pages with several of the same stories told in only slightly different ways can become tedious.
Excellent work and a full volume of information, history of the tales and visions and much more.
Really liked this as it ties in well with other such things and was well written.
Most of this book chronicles oral traditions of fairy lore as collected and recorded by Lady Gregory, one of the guiding lights of the Celtic Renaissance. Most of these are not "fairy tales," in the sense most people understand the term, but first person accounts of encounters with the uncanny world
Lady Gregory’s collection of “stories” from people around the West of Ireland as told to her and W.B. Yeats. They are generally short Irish folktales that range from one paragraph to a couple of pages. I liked one reviewers’ description of most: "I've never seen them, but one killed my sister”. It’s
A remarkably good 365-page book published in 1920, the fruit of many years conversations with the then Irish-speaking small farmers of south Galway and nearby north Clare. Lady Gregory was a landlord, but one long involved in the Gaelic revival, and , for some reason, people talked fairly openly to