Celtic Fairy Tales

The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.

The 26 stories of -Guleesh, - -The Horned Women, - -King O'Toole and His Goose, - -The Sea-Maiden, - -The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, - -The Lad with the Goat-Skin, - the legendary -Dierdre, - -Beth Gellert, - and the other wonderful characters, the curses and hexes, the broken promises and granted wishes are accompanied by eight full-page plates, 37 drawings, and decorated capitals and endpieces that help make this book the charming one that generations of youngsters have proclaimed it to be.