Reading Notes: Celtic Fairytales, Part B

 

                                                      King O'Toole


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

 

King O’Toole and His Goose

            King O’Toole had a goose that was keeping him busy in his old age, but soon the goose got old as well. Saint Kevin blessed the goose, and the King gave him the land the goose flew over.

 

The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

            The Shee An Gannon asked a King for his daughter’s hand in marriage. The King gave him the task of finding out why the goblin stopped laughing. There were twelve iron spikes, eleven of them filled with the heads of princes who had failed in this task, and the twelfth would be open for him. The Shee An Gannon succeeded in his task, and married the King’s daughter.

 

Beth Gellert

            Gellert was a hunting dog who killed a wolf to protect his owner’s son. The owner, seeing the blood and thinking that Gellert had killed his son, killed Gellert, only to discover what had really happened too late.

 

The Tale of Ivan

            Ivan and his wife were very poor, and Ivan left to look for work. Ivan did three years work, got three bits of advice, and followed that advice which saved his life, the lives of his companions, and ensured that he and his wife lived happily ever after.

 

Andrew Coffey

            Andrew Coffey interacted with a bunch of ghosts and woke up with his horse grazing beside him, thinking it was all a dream.

 

Brewery of Eggshells

            There once was a house of great strife, because a woman’s twin children had been replaced with changelings. The woman tricked the changelings and got her own children back.

 


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