WITCHES, FAIRY DOCTORS-- Bewitched Butter (Donegal) 149 A Queen's County Witch 151 The Witch Hare 154 Bewitched Butter (Queen's County) 155 The Horned Women 165 The Witches' Excursion 168 The Confessions of Tom Bourke 170 The Pudding Bewitched 185 T'YEER-NA-N-OGE-- The Legend of O'Donoghue 201 Rent-Day 203 Loughleagh (Lake of Healing) 206 Hy-Brasail.--The Isle of the Blest 212 The Phantom Isle 213 SAINTS, PRIESTS-- The Priest's Soul 215 The Priest of Coloony 220 The Story of the Little Bird 222 Conversion of King Laoghaire's Daughters 224 King O'Toole and his Goose 224 THE DEVIL-- The Demon Cat 229 The Long Spoon 231 The Countess Kathleen O'Shea 232 The Three Wishes 235 GIANTS-- The Giant's Stairs 260 A Legend of Knockmany 266 KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS-- The Twelve Wild Geese 280 The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts 286 The Haughty Princess 290 The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla 294 Munachar and Manachar 296 Donald and his Neighbours 299 The Jackdaw 303 The Story of Conn-eda 306 NOTES 319 INTRODUCTION. Dr. Corbett, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, lamented long ago the departure of the English fairies. "In Queen Mary's time" he wrote-- "When Tom came home from labour, Or Cis to milking rose, Then merrily, merrily went their tabor, And merrily went their toes."