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100 1 _aGregory, Lady,
_d1852-1932
245 1 4 _aThe Kiltartan wonder book
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-16
505 0 _aThe Mule -- Beswarragal -- The seven fishers -- Shawneen -- The man that served the sea -- The Bullockeen -- The three sons -- King Solomon -- The Robineen -- The ball of thread -- The horse and foal -- The woman that was a great fool -- The Danes -- Cailleac-na-Cearc -- The goats -- The curious woman.
508 _aChris Hapka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Kiltartan wonder book" by Lady Gregory is a collection of Irish folk tales written in the early 20th century. Drawn from the Kiltartan oral tradition and told in a chatty, fireside voice, these wonder tales brim with enchantments, quests, giants, clever girls and foolish boys, and animals that speak or save the day. Readers meet a stream of different heroes—a simple prince on a talking mule, the bewitching Beswarragal, the Fish’s son, Shawneen, and others—in self‑contained episodes rich with magic objects, tests, and trickery. The opening of this collection strings together brisk, storyteller-led tales: a “Fool” prince chases a singing bird, rides a miraculous mule, wins a king’s daughter, and breaks the mule’s enchantment; Beswarragal, a swan‑maiden, is lost and found through trials, a magic horse, and a fight with the Queen of the Black Wood; the Fish’s son, aided by a white hound and a hawk, slays Croagcill to free a princess. Shawneen gains giant‑won treasures, kills a dragon in the Black Duke’s armor, dies to a hag, and is revived by his brother Shamus; a man marries a mermaid who later returns to the sea, leaving a child and a pot of gold; a loyal Bullockeen guides a boy through battles with red, white, and green bulls before dying and gifting him great strength. Further brief pieces showcase riddling wit and conditions (King Solomon), the blessing‑and‑curse moral of sharing with a robin (and finding crocks of gold), a thread‑led rescue from an enchanted killer, a hare‑witch saved from black hounds, and a foolish wife who blunders into riches; the last fragment begins a visit to tiny “Danes” in a fairy fort before the excerpt cuts off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDublin: Maunsel & Co. Ltd, 1911
653 _aFolklore -- Ireland -- Juvenile literature
700 1 _aGregory, Margaret,
_d1884-1979
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/kiltartanwonderb00gregrich
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76322
999 _c117047
_d117047