It’s nice to have a collection of tales you don’t get to read that often. There are forty-six tales divided into four different categories: Romance & Tragedy, Heroes & Giants, Fairies & Sea-Folk, and Supernatural Forces. These cover four of the six main genres of Irish Folk Tales: Myths, Legends, Magic Tales, and Literary Fairy Tales. They say Magic Tales instead of Fairy Tales, because not every story that has magic in it also includes a fairy which I think is a bit hoity-toity, but […]
“Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
Irish Fairy Tales by D.L. Ashliman