Legend

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland

by Lady Wilde

Jane Wilde, who wrote patriotic verse as Speranza and was the mother of Oscar Wilde, drew on her husband William’s notes and on the people of the west for this book of 1887. Fairy forts, the evil eye, cures for every ailment and the stories told about them are all here. It is a rich, strange book to dip into.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 10 hr 45 min

Where to find it

On the Legend shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #61436. In the public domain in the United States.