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Tales of the fairies and of the ghost world

collected from the oral tradition in South-west Munster

by Jeremiah Curtin

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionPrimary source
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Thirty beguiling stories of sprites, wraiths, and specters appear here, as they were told to a Smithsonian Institution ethnographer in rural 19th-century Ireland. Stories include "Tom Connors and the Dead Girl," "Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor," "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," and many more

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Legendary beings and transformations.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “ghost” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· via Internet Archive
    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “ghost”· in subject
    • “Ghosts”· in subject
  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”. Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the title, “Fairies” in the subject metadata, and “Fairies” in the edition title.

    • “Fairies”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
    • “Fairies”· in title
    • “Fairies”· in subject
    • “Fairies”· in edition title

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collected from the oral tradition in South-west Munster

Open Library record

1895D. NuttEnglish—Public

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1895Boston, Little, Brown, & company; Little, Brown, & companyEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
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openlibrary-work:OL18083255W
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