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Post by dem bones on Sept 15, 2020 17:05:32 GMT
Peter Haining (ed.) - The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom (Granada, 1981: originally Souvenir, 1979) Introduction
Banshees: The Wailing Messenger of Death
Cave Fairies: The Ancient Spirits of the Coast
Changelings: Children of the Fairies
Cluricaunes: The Mischievous Little Drinker
Daoine Sidh: The immortal Fairy Folk
Demons: The Dark of the Sea
Dullahans: The Ride of he Headless Phantom
Far Darrigs: The Red Man's Pranks
Ghosts: The Haunted Realm
Giants: The Great Heroes of Old
The Gruagach: The Creature of Magic
The Immortal Man: Melmoth the Doomed Wanderer
Leprechauns: The Marvellous Shoe-maker
Merrows: The Beautiful Maidens of the Sea
Monsters: Water Beasts and Wurrums
The Phouka: The Nightmare Steed
Solitary Fairies: The Spell of the Fairy Mistress
Tir-Nan-Og: The Phantom Islands
Vampires: The Terror of the Red Blood Sucker
Water Sheerie: The Lure of the Marsh Lights
Werewolves: Man Beasts in Wolf-Land
Witches: The Devil's Dark Legions
Worlds of Wonder: The Fantasy Land of Lord Dunsany
Acknowledgements Blurb Banshees, Fairies, Changelings, Cluricaunes, Demons, Ghosts, Giants, The Gruagach, Leprechauns, Merrows, Monsters, The Phoukas, Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Worlds of Wonder.
No country in the world can boast such a fantastic variety of fairy folk as throng the hills, lakes, and woods of Ireland, last refuge of the Little People.
The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom celebrates these ancient creatures in pictures from the work of Irish artists over the last hundred years or so, and words by such celebrated writers and fairy chroniclers as Lady Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Crofton Croker, Patrick Kennedy, Jeremiah Curtain and Lord Dunsany. It's a feast of Irish myth and magic.
John D. Batten The Sea MaidenPhyllis Vere Campbell “The Thing came right up to the window, and then raised its face” (Elliott' O'Donnell: Twenty Years’ Experience as a Ghost Hunter, 1916. Another of PH's "pretty picture" books (© JoJo Lapin X), the TOC only tells half the story. Each entry is offset by a relevant short story or extract, amounting to an anthology within an anthology. Thomas Crofton Croker - The Face at the Window
Lady Wilde - The Magic People
Thomas Crofton Croker - The Brewer of Egg Shells
Thomas Crofton Croker - Wildbeam's Pranks
Patrick Kennedy - Jeremy Doyle in the Fairy Palace
Lady Wilde - The Evil Eye
Canon John O'Hanlon - The Death Coach
Letitia MacLintock - Far Darrig in Donegal
J. S. Le Fanu - The Magician's Earl
Patrick Kennedy - Fann Mac Cuil and the Scotch Giant
Jeremiah Curten - The Amadan Mor and the Gruagach
Charles Maturin - The Wanderer's Dream
Thomas Crofton Croker - The Field of Boliauns
Lady Wilde - Dead Soldier
Canon John O'Hanlon - The Peistha Discomforted
Douglas Hyde [Trans] - The Piper and the Puca
Lady Wilde - Eodain the Poetess
D. R. McAnally - The Enchanted Island
R. S. Breene - The Man from the Grave
Lord Dunsany - The Jack 'o Lantern
Giraldus Cambrensis - The Werewolves of Ossory
Patrick Kennedy - The Witches' Excursion H. J. Ford, What Came of Picking Jessamine, 1900. Cecily Peele, Will o' the Wisp, Encyclopaedia of British Bogies, 1978.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 16, 2020 9:00:28 GMT
Peter Haining (ed.) - The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom (Granada, 1981: originally Souvenir, 1979) Blurb Banshees, Fairies, Changelings, Cluricaunes, Demons, Ghosts, Giants, The Gruagach, Leprechauns, Merrows, Monsters, The Phoukas, Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Worlds of Wonder.
No country in the world can boast such a fantastic variety of fairy folk as throng the hills, lakes, and woods of Ireland, last refuge of the Little People.
The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom celebrates these ancient creatures in pictures from the work of Irish artists over the last hundred years or so, and words by such celebrated writers and fairy chroniclers as Lady Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Crofton Croker, Patrick Kennedy, Jeremiah Curtain and Lord Dunsany. It's a feast of Irish myth and magic.
John D. Batten The Sea MaidenPhyllis Vere Campbell “The Thing came right up to the window, and then raised its face” (Elliott' O'Donnell: Twenty Years’ Experience as a Ghost Hunter, 1916. Another of PH's "pretty picture" books (© JoJo Lapin X), the TOC only tells half the story. Each entry is offset by a relevant short story or extract, amounting to an anthology within an anthology. H. J. Ford, What Came of Picking Jessamine, 1900. Cecily Peele, Will o' the Wisp, Encyclopaedia of British Bogies, 1978. Wonderful art. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2020 10:21:17 GMT
It's a very beautiful book. Made a start on the stories and extracts last night. Some favourites. Thomas Crofton Croker - The Face at the Window: ( Fairy Legends & Traditions of the South of Ireland, 1825-28). A shrieking banshee appears to Lady Fanshaw during a visit to a friend's baronial castle. On reporting this to her host, her ladyship is informed that the ghost is believed to be that of "a woman of inferior rank, whom one of my ancestors degraded himself by marrying, and whom afterward, to expiate the dishonour done to his family, he caused to be drowned in the Castle moat." Also, someone died during the night. Croker's source for legend is a footnote in Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake (1810). Canon John O'Hanlon - The Death Coach: ( Irish Local Legends, 1896). Wool merchants returning from the trade fair at Ballynakkl are pursued by a demon-driven phantom coach emerged from the old cemetery in Timorgue. A mad dash to the bridge! Lady Wilde - Dead Soldier: ( Ancient Legends of Ireland, 1888). A mortal-hating mermaid haunts the islands of the Shannon, luring seafarers to their watery doom and feeding on their blood. Lady Wilde - The Evil Eye ( Ancient Legends of Ireland, 1888). How the defeat of Balor the Sorcerer was accomplished at the Battle of Magh-Turh. "His adversary flung a stone with such violence that it went right through the Evil Eye, and pierced the skull, and the mighty magician fell to rise no more." R. S. Breene - The Man from the Grave: ( Occult Review, Oct. 1925). A fanged priest intercepts his own funeral cortège on its return from the cemetery. Article also saw revival in Bernhard J. Hurwood's Monsters Galore as An Irish Vampire. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 18, 2020 7:52:48 GMT
Lord Dunsany - The Jack 'o Lantern: (The Man who Ate the Phoenix, 1949). Paddy O'Hone educates his lordship as to the ways of the Jack 'o Lantern and why they misguide men to the most treacherous stretch of bogland.
Giraldus Cambrensis - The Werewolves of Ossory: (Topographia Hibernica, 1187). A priest grants Holy Communion to a Church-going were-woman. Her entire village is cursed with the taint, and she and husband must spend seven year in wolf form.
Canon John O'Hanlon - The Peistha Discomforted: (Irish Local Legends, 1896). St. Molau rescues two boys from a sea monster, one of whom is so excited, he expires on the spot. The Holy man returns the youth to life, sends him home to his mum unscathed. Typical 'look at me!' busy-body Saint! Why can't they be beastly like normal people?
Charles Maturin - The Wanderer's Dream: (Melmouth the Wanderer, 1820). This is more like it. Melmoth's vivid nightmare of the fiery oceans that await him should he find freedom from immortality. Eternal torture!
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