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The Secret Commonwealth

of Elves, Fauns and Fairies

by Robert Kirk and Andrew Lang

[1893]

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This is one of the most sought after and enigmatic texts about Celtic fairies. Written by a Scottish clergyman, Robert Kirk, in 1691, and not committed to print until the early 19th century, The Secret Commonwealth is an unusually sympathetic account of the denizens of fairyland, and a complex of still mysterious extrasensory phenomena including poltergeists, clairvoyance and doppelgangers (here called 'co-walkers').
This version was issued in 1893 in a very limited edition by the renowned folklorist Andrew Lang, and it includes a 'comment' and some endnotes by Lang which are actually about as long as the Kirk material. This book is very rare. I was extremely fortunate to acquire a copy of the first (and to my knowledge, only) edition of this work when it came up for sale at a local used bookstore. This copy is signed on the flyleaf by Uma Jeffers, wife of the poet Robinson Jeffers, and bears their bookmark, "The Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel-by-the-Sea".
The only version of Kirk recently in print was converted to modern spelling, and it is unlikely that Lang's edition will be readily available to scholars and other interested individuals, unless it is reprinted. Therefore I have taken great pains to retain the spelling and formatting of Lang's redaction of Kirk's text. I have departed from site standards in this section and not merged cross-page hyphenated words. By far the stickiest issue was Kirk's spelling, particularly the 'long' s, which in Lang's book was indistinguishable from normal f. I have used the ƒ character (ƒ) throughout where I could infer the presence of an 's'. In some rare cases I could not decide whether an 'f' or an 's' was implied; these are noted in green italic type. (Annotations in Kirk with square brackets are Lang's).

--John Bruno Hare, February 27th, 2004.

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Title Page
Dedication

Introduction

1. The History of the Book and Author
II. The Secret Commonwealth
The Subterranean Inhabitants
IV. Fairyland and Hades
V. Fairies and Psychical Research
VI. Second Sight and Telepathy.
Colophon

The Secret Commonwealth

Preamble
Title Page
Chapter 1. Of the Subterranean Inhabitants
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
A Succint Accompt Of My Lord Tarbott's Relations
Conclusions

Note
Notes
Postscript
Advertisements

The Candle of Vision

by AE (George William Russell)

[1918]

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This book by Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell, is a set of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (which is short for Aeon), Russell was friends with many other figures of the Celtic renaissance of the early 20th century, including Y.B. Yeats, and James Stephens.
The Candle of Vision describes Russells' luminous excursions into the otherworld, including clairvoyant and prophetic visions, precognition of Gnostic concepts, past-life and astral journeys, and, always, heightened awareness of the beauty that pervades mundane reality. Russell describes encounters with what today we would call UFOs, and attempts to construct a private Kabala based on an intuitive reconstuction of a primal language and alphabet. Lastly, he attempts to put a mystical gloss on the primeval Celtic pagan deities. Lovers of Celtic lore and ecstatic mystic literature will both find much to enjoy in this short book.

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Title Page
Preface
Contents
Retrospect
The Earth Breath
The Slave of the Lamp
Meditation
The Many-Coloured Land
Analytic
The Mingling of Natures
The Memory of Earth
Imagination
Dreams
The Architecture of Dream
Have Imaginations Body?
Intuition
The Language of the Gods
Ancient Intuitions
Power
The Memory of the Spirit
Celtic Cosmogony
The Celtic Imagination
Earth

The Book of Kells

by Edward Sullivan

[1920]

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During the dark ages the arts of bookmaking, illustration and manuscript illumination were preserved in remote Irish abbeys. A number of unique, exquisite books remain from this period, masterpieces of world art. This includes the ninth century Book of Kells, a manuscript of the Gospel richly illustrated with Celtic motifs and deep symbolism. This book includes an extended introduction to the Book of Kells, along with its historic and linguistic background. We have included high resolution scans of the illustrations, which include many famous pages from this amazing manuscript.

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Title Page
Prefatory Note
Preface to Second Edition
List of Plates
Introduction

Illustrations

Plate I. A Page of the Eusebian Canons. Fol. 5 R
Plate II. The Virgin and Child. Fol. 7 V.
Plate III. Portion of the ''Argument'' to the Gospel of St. John. fol. 19 V
Plate IV. The Evangelical Symbols. Fol. 27 V.
Plate V. Portrait of St. Matthew
Plate VI. The Opening Words of St. Matthew's Gospel. Fol. 29 R.
Plate VII. Portrait of St. Mark or St. Luke. Fol. 32 V
Plate VIII. The Eight-Circled Cross. Fol. 33 R
Plate IX. The Monogram Page. Fol. 34 R.
Plate X. A Page of the Text. Fol. 104 R
Plate XI. Tunc Crucifixerent XPI Cum Os latrones. Fol. 124 R
Plate XII. The Evangelical Symbols. Fol. 129 V
Plate XIII. The Opening Words of St. Mark's Gospel. Fol. 130 R
Plate XIV. The Opening Word of St. Luke's Gospel. Fol. 188 R
Plate XV. The Genealogy of Christ. Fol. 200 R.
Plate XVI. The Genealogy—continued. Fol. 200 V
Plate XVII. The Genealogy—continued. Fol. 201 R
Plate XVIII. Portrait of St. John. Fol. 291 V.
Plate XIX. The Opening Words of St. John's Gospel. Fol. 292 R
Plate XX. Compound Letters
Plate XXI. Compound Letters
Plate XXII. Compound Letters
Plate XXIII. Compound Letters
Plate XXIV. Compound Letters

 

The Voyage of Bran

by Kuno Meyer

[1895]

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This is Kuno Meyer's translation of the old Irish saga, the Voyage of Bran. In this magical odyssey to the limits of reality, Bran takes a characteristically time-dilated journey to a distant isle of luxury. On return, he learns that ages have passed and he and his expedition have already passed into myth. He can never again touch the soil of his homeland and sails off again. The text references ancient Celtic gods and also contains quasi-prophetic passages added at a later date by Christian scribes.
The appendices contain extracts from other Irish texts about Mongan, who is mentioned in the Bran saga, the son of Manannan mac Lir, the Celtic sea-god. This is of interest because of the descriptions of the training of bards, and lore of human visits to the Sídhe, the fairies.
Production notes: due to the limits of current OCR technology, we had to omit critical footnotes to the Irish text, several extended Gaelic passages from the appendices, and the index section. Large lacunae of this nature are noted in green text. The edition we used also omitted a long essay by Alfred Nutt, which we will transcribe at some point in the future if we can locate a first edition. We did manage to include the entire Gaelic text of the Voyage of Bran in parallel with the English translation, as well as all footnotes relevant to the English translations. Because we were unable to spellcheck this document (MS Word's spellchecker broke down on it repeatedly), it may contain typos in both the English and Gaelic. However, we did several careful passes on each page. We welcome any notice of errors in this document from readers.

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Title Page
Introduction
The Voyage of Bran
Notes

Appendix

I. The Conception of Mongán
II. A Story from which it is inferred that Mongán was Find mac Cumaill, and the cause of the death of Fothad Airgdech
III. A Story of Mongán
IV. These are the events that brought about the telling of 'Mongán's Frenzy.'
V. The Conception of Mongán and Dub-Lacha's Love for Mongán
VI. From the Annals
VII. Irische Texte iii. page 8
VIII. Irische Texte iii. p. 87
IX. From Gilla Modutu's poem Senchas Ban...
X. From Ms. Laud 613, p. 21
XI. From MS. Laud 615, p. 18.

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats [1888]

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This is an anthology of Irish folklore, edited by W. B. Yeats. Many of these stories are from books which are archived at this site; some are from books which have yet to be converted to etext or now-rare source material. He selected many of the best (and often funniest) tales from other writers such as Lady Wilde, Croker, Lover, Hyde, and Carelton. Yeats wrote introductory material and notes to many of these stories.

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Title Page
Contents
Introduction

The Trooping Fairies

The Trooping Fairies
The Fairies, by William Allingham
Frank Martin and the Fairies, by William Carleton
The Priest's Supper, by T. Crofton Croker
The Fairy Well Of Lagnanay, By Samuel Ferguson
Teig O'Kane (Tadhg O Cáthán) and the Corpse, tr. by Douglas Hyde
Paddy Corcoran's Wife, by William Carleton
Cusheen Loo, tr. by J. J. Callanan
The White Trout; A Legend of Cong, by S. Lover
The Fairy Thorn, An Ulster Ballad, by Sir Samuel Ferguson
The Legend of Knockgrafton, by T. Crofton Croker
A Donegal Fairy, by Letitia Maclintock

Changelings

Changelings
The Brewery of Egg-Shells, by T. Crofton Croker
The Fairy Nurse, by Edward Walsh
Jamie Freel and the Young Lady, A Donegal Tale, by Miss Letitia Maclintock
The Stolen Child, by W. B. Yeats

The Merrow

The Merrow
The Soul Cages, by T. Crofton Croker
Flory Cantillon's Funeral, by T. Crofton Croker

The Solitary Fairies

Lepracaun. Cluricaun. Far Darrig.
The Lepracaun; Or Fairy Shoemaker by William Allingham
Master and Man, by T. Crofton Croker
Far Darrig in Donegal, by Letitia Maclintock

The Pooka

The Pooka
The Piper and the Puca, by Douglas Hyde
Daniel O'Rourke, by T. Crofton Croker
The Kildare Pooka, by Patrick Kennedy

The Banshee

The Banshee
How Thomas Connolly Met the Banshee, by J. Todhunter
A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, tr. by Clarence Mangan
The Banshee of the Mac Carthys, by T. Crofton Croker

Ghosts

Ghosts
A Dream, by William Allingham
Grace Connor, by Letitia Maclintock
A Legend of Tyrone, by Ellen O'Leary
The Black Lamb, by Lady Wilde
Song of the Ghost, by Alfred Percival Graves
The Radiant Boy, by Mrs. Crow
The Fate Of Frank M'Kenna, by William Carleton

Witches, Fairy Doctors

Witches, Fairy Doctors
Bewitched Butter (Donegal), by Letitia Maclintock
A Queen's County Witch
The Witch Hare, by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall
Bewitched Butter (Queen's County)
The Horned Women, by Lady Wilde
The Witches' Excursion, by Patrick Kennedy
The Confessions of Tom Bourke, by T. Crofton Croker
The Pudding Bewitched, by William Carleton

Tír-na-n-Og.

Tír-na-n-Og
The Legend Of O'Donoghue by T. Crofton Croker
Rent-day
Loughleagh (Lake Of Healing)
Hy-Brasail--The Isle of the Blest by Gerald Griffin
The Phantom Isle, by Giraldus Cambrensis

Saints, Priests

Saints, Priests
The Priest's Soul, by Lady Wilde
The Priest of Coloony
The Story of the Little Bird, by T. Crofton Croker
Conversion Of King Laoghair's Daughters
King O'Toole And His Goose, by S. Lover

The Devil

The Demon Cat, by Lady Wilde
The Long Spoon, by Patrick Kennedy
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
The Three Wishes, by W. Carleton

Giants

Giants
The Giant's Stairs, by T. Crofton Croker
A Legend of Knockmany, by William Carleton

Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers

The Twelve Wild Geese, by Patrick Kennedy
The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts, by Patrick Kennedy
The Haughty Princess, by Patrick Kennedy
The Enchantment of Gearoidh Iarla, by Patrick Kennedy
Munachar and Manachar, tr. by Douglas Hyde
Donald and his Neighbours
The Jackdaw
The Story of Conn-eda, or the Golden Apples of Lough Erne, by Abraham M'Coy, tr. by Nicholas O'Kearney

Notes

Gods of the Earth
Sir Samuel Ferguson
Cusheen Loo
Legend of Knockgrafton
Stolen Child
Solitary Fairies
Banshee's Cry
Omens
A Witch Trial
T'yeer-na-n-Oge
The Ganconer or Gancanagh
Father John O'Hart
Shoneen and Sleiveen
Demon Cat
A Legend of Knockmany
Some Authorities On Irish Folk-Lore

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology

by St. John D. Seymour

[1913]

This is a survey of the Witch persecution in Ireland, as well as a wide array of other paranormal events such as poltergeists, ghosts, apparations and even an early UFO account. Very readable, yet well documented, this book has extensive and fascinating quotes from historical source documents.
Seymour proposes that the witch-craze was more muted in Ireland than elsewhere in Europe. Relatively speaking, there appear to have been fewer cases in Ireland. This doesn't mean that the consequences were any less harsh for the accused. In these texts we can see how people exhibiting what we would today consider schizophrenic or senile behavior were vulnerable to being accused of witchcraft.--J.B. Hare, Nov. 2002.

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Title Page
Contents
Chapter I: Some Remarks On Witchcraft In Ireland
Chapter II: A.D. 1324: Dame Alice Kyteler, The Sorceress of Kilkenny
Chapter III: A.D. 1223-1583
Chapter IV: A.D. 1606-1656
Chapter V: A.D. 1661
Chapter VI. A.D. 1662-1686
Chapter VII: A.D. 1688: An Irish-American Witch
Chapter VIII: A.D. 1689-1720
Chapter IX: A.D. 1807 to Present Day

Lady Wilde

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde

[1887]

Title Page
Preface
Introduction
The Horned Women
A Legend of Ballytowtas Castle
A Wolf Story
The Evil Eye
The Stolen Bride
Fairy Music
The Fairy Dance
Fairy Justice
The Priest's Soul
The Fairy Race
The Trial by Fire
The Lady Witch
Ethna the Bride
The Fairies Revenge
Fairy Help--The Phouka
The Farmer Punished
The Farmer's Wife
The Midnight Ride
The Leprehaun
The Legends of the Western Isles
The Bride's Death-Song
The Child's Dream
The Fairy Child
The Doom
The Clearing from Guilt
The Holy Well and the Murderer
Legends of Innis-Sark--A Woman's Curse
Legends of the Dead in the Western Islands
The Death Sign
Kathleen
November Eve
The Dance of the Dead
Superstitions Concerning the Dead
The Fatal Love-Charm
The Fenian Knights
Rathlin Island
The Strange Guests
The Dead Soldier
The Three Gifts
The Fairies as Fallen Angels
The Fairy Changeling
Fairy Wiles
Shaun-Mor
The Tuatha-de Danaan
Edain the Queen
The Royal Steed
Cathal the King
The Poet's Malediction
Drimial Agus Thorial
An Irish Adept of the Islands
The May Festival
May-Day Superstitions
Candelemas
Whitsuntide
Whitsuntide Legend of the Fairy Horses
November Spells
November Eve
A Terrible Revenge
The Baal Fires and Dances
The Fairy Doctress
Marraige Rites
The Dead
The Wake Orgies
The Ancient Mysteries
The Power of the Word
The Poet and the King
The Sidhe Race
Music
Poet Inspiration--Eodain the Poetess
The Banshee
Queen Maeve
Death Signs
The Hartpole Doom
Superstitions
The Fairy Rath
Fairy Nature
Irish Nature
Legends of Animals
Concerning Dogs
Concerning Cats
The King of the Cats
The Demon Cat
Cat Nature
Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats
The Bards
King Arthur and the Cat
Concerning Cows
Fairy Wiles
The Dead Hand
The Wicked Widow
The Butter Mystery
Concerning Birds
The Magpie
The Wren
The Raven and the Water Wagtail
The Cuckoo and the Robin Redbreast
The Cricket
The Beetle
The Hare
The Weasel
The Properties of Herbs and Their Use in Medicine
A Love Potion
Love Dreams
To Cause Love
Medical Superstitions and Ancient Charms
Against Sorrow
To Win Love
For the Night Fire (the Fever)
For a Pain in the Side
For the Measles
For the Mad Fever
Against Enemies
To Extract a Thorn
To Cause Hatred between Lovers
For Love
How to have Money Always
For the Great Worm
For Sore Eyes
For Pains in the Body
Against Drowning
In Time of Battle
For the Red Rash
To Tame a Horse
A Very Ancient Charm against Wounds or Poisons
For a Sore Breast
For a Wound
For the Evil Eye
For St. Anthony's Fire
How to go Invisible
For Pains
For a Sprain
To Cause Love
For the Bite of a Mad Dog
For Toothache
For Freckles
For a Burn
For the Memory
For the Falling Sickness
For Chin-Cough
For Rheumatism
For a Stye on the Eyelid
To Cure Warts
For a Stitch in the Side
For Weak Eyes
For Water on the Brain
For Hip Disease
For the Mumps
For Epilepsy
For Depression of Heart
For the Fairy Dart
Various Superstitions and Cures
To Find Stolen Goods
A Prayer against the Plague
A Blessing
A Cure for Cattle
A Charm for Safety
An Elixir of Potency
For the Bite of a Mad Dog
Dreams
Fairy Doctors
Charms by Crystals
Alectromania
Fairy Power
Omens and Superstitions
That Forebode Evil
To Attract Bees
Concerning the Dead
The Coastguard's Fate
Relics
St. Patrick
The Well of the Book
St. Patrick and the Serpent
St. Patrick and the Princesses
The Poison Cup
Divination
The Blind Poet
The Story of the Breccan
Bardic Priviliges
St. Ciaron
St. Martin
St. Bridget
St. Kieran
St. Kevin
Christian Legends
The Cremave
Relics for clearing from Guilt
Innis-Murry
The Evil Stroke
The Changeling
The Fairy Doctor
The Poet's Spell
Charm for the Fairy Stroke
The Farmer's Fate
The Fairy Rath
The Holy Wells
The White Stones
The Sacred Trout
St. Augustine's Well
The Grilled Trout
Legend of Neal-Mor
St John's Well
The Well of Fionn Ma-Coul
St. Seenan's Well
Kil-na-Greina
The Well of Worship
The Bride's Well
The Irish Fakir
Sacred Trees
Tober-na-Dara
Lough Neagh
The Doctor and the Fairy Princess
A Holy Well
A Sacred Island
The Lake of Revenge
Scenes at a Holy Well
Lough Foyle
The Hen's Castle
Sliabh-Mish, County Kerry
The Skelligs of Kerry
The Sidhe Race
The Hurling Match
The Ride with the Fairies
The Fairy Spy
The Dark Horseman
Sheela-na-Skean
Captain Webb, The Robber Chief
The Mayo Captain and Feenish the Mare
The Bardic Race
The Ancient Race
The Antiquities of Ireland
Early Irish Art
Our Ancient Capital

celtic flok-lore

Lady Gregory

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

by Lady Augusta Gregory

[1920]

Title Page
Preface
Sea Stories
Seers and Healers
The Evil Eye--The Touch--The Penalty
Away
Herbs, Charms and Wise Women
Astray and Treasure
Banshees and Warnings
In the Way
The Fighting of the Friends
The Unquiet Dead
Appearances
Butter
The Fool of the Forth
Forths and Sheoguey Places
Blacksmiths
Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts
Friars and Priest Cures
Notes (W.B. Yeats)
Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk-Lore (W.B. Yeats)
Swedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate Places (W.B. Yeats)

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