Produced by Douglas L. Alley, III, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _By Lady Gregory_ DRAMA Seven Short Plays Folk-History Plays, 2 vols. New Comedies The Image The Golden Apple Our Irish Theatre. A Chapter of Autobiography IRISH FOLK LORE AND LEGEND Visions and Beliefs, 2 vols. Cuchulain of Muirthemne Gods and Fighting Men Saints and Wonders Poets and Dreamers The Kiltartan Poetry Book [Illustration: Coole Lake From a picture by Robert Gregory in Sir Hugh Lane's Collection] VISIONS AND BELIEFS IN THE WEST OF IRELAND COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY LADY GREGORY: WITH TWO ESSAYS AND NOTES BY W. B. YEATS "_There's no doubt at all but that there's the same sort of things in other countries; but you hear more about them in these parts because the Irish do be more familiar in talking of them._" _FIRST SERIES_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON =The Knickerbocker Press= 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920 BY LADY GREGORY =The Knickerbocker Press, New York= PREFACE