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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland - Second Series

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .What is the Banshee? It is of the nature of the Hyneses. Six families it cries for, the Hyneses and the Fahys and I forget what are the others.

I heard her beside the river at Ballylee one time. I would stand barefooted in the snow listening to the tune she had, so nice and so calm and so mournful.

I would yield to dreams because of some things were dreamed to me in my lifetime and that turned out true. I dreamed one time that I saw my daughter that was in America dead, and stretched and a table laid out with the corpse. She came home after, and at the end of five months she wasted and died. And there I saw her stretched as in the dream, and it was on my own table.

One time I was walking the road and I heard a great crying and keening beside me, a woman that was keening, and she conveyed me three miles of the road. And when I got to the door of the house[Pg 51] I looked down and saw a little woman, very broad and broad faced—about t. . . Read More

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