Thirtybeguiling stories of sprites, wraiths, and specters include "Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor," "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," and ma
Twenty folk tales representing hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination transport readers to a world where everything is alive and anything can happen! Vivid descriptions of battles with
A linguist who worked as an ethnographer with the Smithsonian Institute, Curtin (1835-1906) himself called his collection of tales Creation Myths of Primitive American in Relation to the Religious His
