Mythology and Folklore

                                                         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 fo...

  Bibliography: Celtic Fairy Tales  by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892). Connla and the Fairy Maiden             Connla of the Fiery Hair is taken to the land of the fairy by a fairy maiden. His father, the King, Conn of the Hundred Fights, tried to get a Druid to stop it but couldn’t.   The Field of Boliauns             Tom Fitzpatrick took a leprechaun captive and made said leprechaun show him where gold was buried. Tom tied a red garter to the spot the leprechaun had indicated and went home to get a spade after making the leprechaun swear not to touch the garter. When he came back, the leprechaun was gone but had tied red garters over all the trees in the fields.   The Horned Women             Twelve witches, the first with one horn and the last with twelve, cam...