Cranston Public Library

After disturbing a dead man in his grave an Irish girl nearly pays with her life, but thanks to her cleverness and bravery she finds love and riches instead.

The laziest man in all of Ireland catches a leprechaun, who offers a potato seed instead of a pot of gold for his freedom.

"The definitive collection of British and Irish folktales from master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland. Rich and strange, these eerie and magical folktales from across Britain and Ireland have been passed down from generation to generation, and are gathered together in a definitive new collection from the master storyteller and winner of the Carnegie Medal, Kevin Crossley-Holland. Dark and funny, lyrical and earthy, these fifty stories...

"Mythologies was the title W.B. Yeats himself gave to this collection of Irish stories of the supernatural and uncanny, based on country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, and originally published in the nineties in The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, and Stories of Red Hanrahan. The author's own esoteric speculations and experiences of the same period are described in Rosa Alchemica, The Tables of the Law, and The Adoration of the Magi, and these...