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Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland

Jeremiah Curtin

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Jeremiah Curtins 1890 field collection of twenty Irish folk tales gathered orally from peasant storytellers, capturing the Tuatha De Danann, fairy abductions, and giants in the words of those who still believed them.

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