Celtic Fairy Tales Reading: Part B

 Celtic Fairy Tales

Cover of the "Celtic Fairy Tales" book. (Source: Mythology Untextbook Unit )

King O'Toole and His Goose

-"OCH, I thought all the world, far and near, had heerd o' King O'Toole — well, well, but the darkness of mankind is untellable!"

-owned the churches

-loved hunting

-had a pet goose that entertained him when he got old and couldn't hunt anymore

-Saint Kavin

-Saint Kavin says will make the goose good as new if the king will give him the land she flies around after shes better

The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

-Fairy of Gannon and the Laughin Goblin

-asked the king of Erin to marry his daughter

-king told him that if he could find out what made the goblin stop laughing he could marry her, if he didn't, he would behead him

-fairy starts working for the goblin

-Land of the Giant

-five-headed giant 

Beth Gellert

-prince Llewelyn had a greyhound named Gellert

-called for Gellert but he never came

-went hunting but came back angry

-when he came back, found the dog covered in blood

-went to sons nursery and saw chaos

-"Monster, thou hast devoured my child," he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes."

-Beth Gellert- "Grave of Gellert"

The Tale of Ivan 

-Cornish Tale

-Market Jew- nothing to do with Jews, "Marghas Yow,"-means Thursday Market

-Llanlavan Chyannor

-3 pounds for a year's wages at the farm for Ivan

-"Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one."

-"Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."

-"Honesty is the best policy."

Andrew Coffey

-whole barony-repeated 

-quiet decent man

-got lost in the woods and found a cabin

-heard his name being called

-"better see, than be seen"

-dreamed the whole ordeal

Brewery of Eggshells

-Welsh changeling story

-Place of Strife

-"old elves of the blue petticoat"

-"Wise Man of Llanidloes, for he knew everything and would advise her what to do."

-"So she went back into the house, seized the children, and threw them into the lake, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended."

Bibliography-

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892).