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Voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1895. Deze uitgave is van 1974

JEREMIAH CURTIN was born in Detroit, Michigan, in September, 1835. As a descendant of Irish emigrant parents, he turned his attention to Ireland in search of tales and legends. He visited this country several times between 1871 and 893 and recorded folklore in Southwest Munster. At the time when he was collecting in Ireland, belief in fairies and ghosts governed the lives of most Irish people, and it was easier then than it would be now to make a rich collection of illustrative legends. 
The following tales, while ostensibly dealing with the fairy- and ghost-world, are really of an international character : Tom Daly and the Nut-eating Ghost, Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor, The Three Sisters and Their Husbands' Three Brothers, John Shea and the Treasure, Maggie Doyle and the Dead Man, Tom Moore and the Seal Woman, and Tom Foley's Ghost.