_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: Ballylee Castle From a sepia drawing by Robert Gregory] 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._" _SECOND SERIES_ G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON =The Knickerbocker Press= 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920 BY LADY GREGORY =The Knickerbocker Press, New York= CONTENTS PAGE I.--HERBS, CHARMS, AND WISE WOMEN 3 II.--ASTRAY, AND TREASURE 29 III.--BANSHEES AND WARNINGS 45 IV.--IN THE WAY 65 V.--THE FIGHTING OF THE FRIENDS 77 VI.--THE UNQUIET DEAD 89 VII.--APPEARANCES 111 VIII.--BUTTER 189 IX.--THE FOOL OF THE FORTH 195 X.--FORTHS AND SHEOGUEY PLACES 205 XI.--BLACKSMITHS 239 XII.--MONSTERS AND SHEOGUEY BEASTS 245 XIII.--FRIARS AND PRIEST CURES 281 SWEDENBORG, MEDIUMS, AND THE DESOLATE PLACES 295 NOTES 343 I HERBS, CHARMS, AND WISE WOMEN I HERBS, CHARMS, AND WISE WOMEN