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title: "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Paperback – November 17, 2011"
brand: "william butler yeats"
price: "R503"
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reviews_count: 13
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# Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Paperback – November 17, 2011

**Brand:** william butler yeats
**Price:** R503
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- **What is this?** Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Paperback – November 17, 2011 by william butler yeats
- **How much does it cost?** R503 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    The Irish Writers - Yeats
  

*by J***  on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023*

The Irish are the greatest writers & story tellers. Yeats is world renowned as one of Ireland's best so you can't go wrong by buying this treasure trove!

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    cannot be read in one sitting.
  

*by G***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023*

Really interesting collection of stories and legends and folk tales all touching on the supernatural.  It has taken a while to read, because each story stands a bit alone.

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    Fun Variety of Tales
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016*

I enjoyed most of the stories collected here, and I thought T. Crofton Croker had the best of the lot.  Soul Cages was my favorite, but Master & Man and Daniel O'Rourke were also creative.  The banshee tales were sleep-inducing with realistic but tedious exposition (like some Edgar Allan Poe short stories).  Yeats tries to sort the tales into categories, adding a bit of background before each section, but it seems to me that a lot of these tales defy such easy organization.  For instance, the Kildare Pooka seems to me to be more of a "brownie" creature (functionally) vs. the creature featured in Douglas Hyde's The Piper & the Puca.  But, hey, that's why this is a book of folklore and not a coherent mythological system.  I also noted some of Patrick Kennedy's tales are virtually the same as similar tales found in the Brothers Grimm, but I would say upwards of 90% of the tales in this collection were stories I hadn't encountered before.Also, there really was no leprechaun tale here, but we're informed they are of the "solitary fairy" type and so can be expected to wear red jackets,  not green as is commonly supposed.  But don't fret, there are plenty of fun tales here even without leprechauns! There are witches, pucas, cluricauns (alcoholic leprechauns), enchanted pudding, and all sorts of craziness.  Plus, half the fun of reading these is immersing yourself in the charming writing style.There are a handful of poems, too, but I skipped them and just read the stories.

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