Excerpt from Fairies and Folk of Ireland I have learned much concerning the ways of Irish fairies from Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland and Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland, and I have gained not a little from the books of William Carleton, especially his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, but from none of these have I taken any con siderable part of a story. Indeed I have found help, greater or less, in more books than I can name here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.