A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
- ISBN-10
- 143516136X
- ISBN-13
- 9781435161368
- Category
- Folk literature, Irish
- Pages
- 748
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-04
Description
These Irish tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back to a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling that had yet to be committed to the printed page. They were passed down through the ages virtually unaltered and feature a wide variety of fantastic beings.
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