Folk Tales of Breffny

FOLK TALES OF BREFFNY

B. HUNT

The centenary edition reprinted and published for charity in 2012 included
line drawings and some details about the charities is available as a PDF here.

Chapter	Contents	Book Page
	Introduction
I	The King's Daughter of France	1
II	The Cow Of A Widow of Breffny	13
III	Kate Ellen's Wake	21
IV	The Dark Oath	29
V	Fairy Gold	37
VI	McCarthy of Connacht	45
VII	Nallagh's Child	65
VIII	The Enchanted Hare	73
IX	The Bridge of the Kist	81
X	The Child and the Fiddle	89
XI	The Cutting of the Tree	97
XII	The Little Settlement	105
XIII	The Tillage in the Fort	115
XIV	The New Deck of Cards	121
XV	The Lifting of a Child	127
XVI	The Voice at the Door	135
XVII	The Earl's Son of the Sea	143
XVIII	The Girl and the Fairies	153
XIX	Good-Night, My Brave Michael	159
XX	The Lad and the Old Lassie's Song	I65
XXI	The Basket of Eggs	169
XXII	The Broken Branch	175
XXIII	Digging For Gold	179
XXIV	Story of a Churn	183
XXV	The Gankeynogue in The Oak Chest	187
XXVI	The Maker of Brogues	193
	Glossary	197

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
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