Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 / 2008-06-22 00:00:00

EBOOK CELTIC FAIRY TALES ***


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CELTIC FAIRY TALES

_SELECTED AND EDITED BY_
JOSEPH JACOBS

_SAY THIS
Three times, with your eyes shut_
Mothuighim boladh an Eireannaigh bhinn bhreugaigh faoi m'fhoidin
duthaigh.
_And you will see
What you will see_

_TO ALFRED NUTT_

PREFACE
Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales,
my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them
specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my
trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect
her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker
has found a whole school of successors in Carleton, Griffin,
Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde. Scotland had the great name of
Campbell, and has still efficient followers in MacDougall, MacInnes,
Carmichael, Macleod, and Campbell of Tiree. Gallant little Wales has
no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have
shown less vigour than the Gaedhel. Perhaps the Eisteddfod, by
offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove
this inferiority.
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