Irish customs and beliefs / Kevin Danaher.
By: Danaher, Kevin.
Material type: BookPublisher: Cork : Mercier Press, 2004Description: 126 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781856354424 .Subject(s): Folklore -- Ireland | Ireland -- History, Local | Ireland -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 941.5082Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 941.5082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 15/03/2024 | 00149180 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Irish Customs and Beliefs' is a book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish whiteboys, lost and hidden treasures. Beliefs associated with birds, insects, animals, plants, bushes, trees and stones, dwarfs and fabulous water monsters, ghosts, witches, castles and drowned cities.
Wandering people -- Stand and deliver! -- Spreading the news -- The summer pastures -- Pistols for two -- Captain Moonlight -- The foot of the rainbow -- 'One for sorrow, two for joy' -- Four-footed neighbours -- The cricket's song -- 'Tis a wedge of the elm... -- The hungry grass -- Castles -- Standing stones -- Wee folk, good folk -- Water monsters -- The butter stealers -- Ghosts -- Sunken cities -- Black cat and broomstick.