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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
FOLK TALES.
The Knight of the Bens and Glens and Passes, - - - 2
The Swarthy Smith of the Socks, - - - - - 16
The Tailor and the Kilnure Animated Corpse, - - - 34
Big Black John, son of the King of Sorcha, - - - 40
Cathal O' Cruachan and the Herd of the Stud, - - - 56
Donald of the Burthens, ------- 68
Black-haired John of Lewis, 74
The Ben Vehir Dragons, 96
FAIRY STORIES.
I.— THE SOCIAL FAIRIES.
Torr-a-Bhuilg, 100
Tàladh na Mnà-Sìthe, 104
Fairy Song, - - - - - - - - - 108
Widowed Father's Lullaby to his Motherless Infant, - - 112
Glengarry Fairy, - - - - - - - - 116
Two Fairy Arrow Stories, - - - - - - - 120
The Fairies of Corrie Chaorachain, 126
The Rannoch Farmer's Son and the Fairies, - - - 128
Angus Mor of Tomnahuirich and the Fairies, - - - 132
The Red-haired Tailor of Rannoch and the Fairy, - - 142
The Kintalen Changeling, - - - - - - - 148
The Fairy of Corrie Osben, 154
The Girl who emptied the Inexhaustible Meal Chest, - - 158

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Folk tales and fairy lore in Gaelic and English
DescriptionCollected from oral tradition by James Macdougall ; edited with introduction and notes by George Calder.
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