Connla and the Fairy Maiden
Connla speaks to a fairy maiden that no one can see or hear until she answered his father the kinG. The fairy maiden wished to make Connla a fairy king, but his father calls upon a druid for help. He eats from an everlasting apple and longs for the fairy maiden who was sent away by the Druids spell. The fairy maiden came once more to beseech Connla to come with her and he did so.
The Field of Boliauns
Lady-day was a famous holiday, Tom Fitzpatrick sees a leprechaun drinking. Tom approached and struck up a conversation with the leprechaun who explained in the pitcher was beer that he made from heath. The leprechaun attempted to make Tom look away with a story of the cows escaping but instead Tom grabbed him and demanded his gold lest he kill him. The leprechaun led him to a boulian where the gold was to be buried and Tom went home to get his spade after tying a red garter around it. He made the leprechaun swear not to take it off and he did but instead tied one around every other boulian insight.
The Sprightly Tailor
Lord Macdonald employed the tailor to make trews in the haunted church in exchange for a handsome reward. The tailor went at night to the church working on the trews stitched through the ghostly appearance that came before. He finished the trews before the entirely ghostly figure could materialize its whole body and the tailor ran out of the church and the ghost ran after him. The tailor made it into the castle and gained his reward.
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
Silver Tree, the king's wife, was angry that her daughter Gold Tree was seen more lovely than she by the trout in the glen and vowed to eat her daughter's heart and liver. The King says he will do whatever she wants but instead gives her the heart and liver of a goat to eat for his daughter was gone and married off to a king abroad. Silver Tree asks the trout again who is the most lovely.
Bibliography:
Celtic Tales: Fairies, leprechauns, ghosts, and goblins, along with a Celtic version of "Snow White."
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