Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

10 best books like Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (W.B. Yeats): The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Brown Fairy Book, Russian Fairy Tales, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Irish Folk Tales, Japanese Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, English Fairy Tales, Meeting the Other Crowd

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

Author	W.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN	1564147088

When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.

Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...

Traditional Irish Fairy Tales

Author	James Stephens
ISBN	0486291669

'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'

A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...

The Brown Fairy Book

Author	Andrew Lang
ISBN	0486214389

This one fares farther than the earlier ones, with a lot more from North America, Iceland, Egypt, etc. and fewer from Europe -- not that that doesn't demonstrate how the forms of stories can last. "The Sister of the Sun" and "The King Who Would Be Stronger than Fate" in particular are charming versions...

Russian Fairy Tales

Author	Alexander Afanasyev
ISBN	0394730909

Translated by Norbert Guterman

Illustrated by Alexander Alexeieff

In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figures—thieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches,...

Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Author

Jane Yolen

Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
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The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...

Irish Folk Tales

Author

Henry Glassie

Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...

Japanese Tales

Author

Royall Tyler

Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...

Celtic Fairy Tales

Author	Joseph Jacobs
ISBN	0486218260

The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.
The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and...

English Fairy Tales

Author	Flora Annie Steel
ISBN	1853261335

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different...

Meeting the Other Crowd

Author	Eddie Lenihan
ISBN	0717136590

The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.

In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...

Myths & Legends of the British Isles

Author	Richard Barber
ISBN	1843830396

The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...

Celtic Myths and Legends

Author	Peter Berresford Ellis
ISBN	0786711078

This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures of Western Europe-Irish,...

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0140443975

First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle...

Over Nine Waves

Author

Marie Heaney

Whether you're interested in Irish legends or are familiar with them and want to read them over again, this book provides a decent handful of such tales. From the infamous stories of Cuchulainn and his short life, to the stories of Finn, and the tales that came before of the Tuatha De Danaan, the inhabitants...

Celtic Myths and Legends (Myths of the World)

Author	Charles Squire
ISBN	0517101572

This is one from my PC shelf; not one to read cover-to-cover, I refer back to this from time to time, and read it sporatically. Lots of interesting bits about the Celts..

2/15/08: I am currently in the midst of reading "The Mists of Avalon" (heehee), and so I am reading bits of this as a sort of "background";...

The Irish Fairy Book

Author	Alfred Perceval Graves
ISBN	1859580173

Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive by generations of storytellers and their avid listeners. As Alfred Perceval Graves, author of the...

Myths and Legends of the Celts

Author	James MacKillop
ISBN	0141017945

Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.

Drawing on recent historical and archaeological research, as well as literary...

Celtic Myths and Legends

Author	T.W. Rolleston
ISBN	0486265072

This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the myths of the Irish invasion...

Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland

Author	Jeremiah Curtin
ISBN	0486224309

Fearsome giants, magic spells, Druidic rods of enchantment; gallant princes and beautiful princesses, brave kings and wicked queens; cloaks of invisibility, swords of light and swords of darkness, horses that go faster than the wind, animals that speak and have strange powers...these are elements...

Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman

Author	John Matthews
ISBN	0892818697

A new translation of the poems of sixth-century Celtic bard and shaman Taliesin that reveals the mysteries of Druidic practices.- The first collection of Taliesin's major poetry with commentary by John Matthews, author of more than 40 books on the Celts.- Reveals Druidic prophecy, methods of divination,...