Celtic Fairy Tales

Connla and the Fairy Maiden. The horned women. Jack and his comrades. The shepherd of Myddvai. Irish, Scottish, and Welsh tales drawn from oral tradition — banshees, the Sidhe, selkies, and the everyday traffic with the otherworld that the Celtic countries took for granted. Jacobs's two volumes (Celtic Fairy Tales, More Celtic Fairy Tales) are the standard children's collection. For older readers, Yeats's Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888).