Ultimate Grimoire and Spellbook

On one occasion a dead man in his shroud answered the call, and silently drew away the girl from the rest of the party. The frig ...

* * * The fairies also exercise a malign influence by making a path through a house, when all the children begin to pine and a b ...

John. The great bonfire of the year is still made on St. John's Eve, when all the people dance round it, and every young man tak ...

SUPERSTITIONS THE two great festivals of the ancient Irish were Lá Baal Tinné, or May Day (sacred to the Sun), and Lá Samnah, or ...

about foot-water, and no woman was allowed to wash her feet in the sacred wells though the lavation was permitted to men. If a c ...

the mystic prophet power: he could foresee, and he could denounce. And no man could escape from the judgment pronounced by a poe ...

If treated well, the fairies will discover the hidden pot of gold, and reveal the mysteries of herbs, amid give knowledge to the ...

CONCERNING DOGS SOME very weird superstitions exist in Ireland concerning the howlings of dogs. It a dog is heard to howl near t ...

The Irish may have obtained the superstition through Egypt, Phoenicia, or Greece, for it is the opinion of some erudite writers ...

The Irish have always looked on cats as evil and mysteriously connected with some demoniacal influence. On entering a house the ...

The family of the young squire were, however, not quite contented, especially as rumours of witchcraft and devil's dealings were ...

THE KING OF THE CATS A most important personage in feline history is the King of the Cats. He may be in your house a common look ...

"Good-night, Judy, agrah," she said. "You have been very civil to me, and I'll not forget it to you. Good-night, good night." Wi ...

"Away, out of this, you wicked beast!" she cried, giving it a blow with the tongs that would have broken its back, only it was a ...

A favourite cat in a gentleman's house was rather fond of nocturnal rambles and late hours, perhaps copying his master, but no m ...

There is a legend that a beautiful princess, a king's daughter, having gone down to bathe one day, was there enchanted by her wi ...

playing beside her with all the pretty toys scattered over the carpet: "The cat's disposition was grave: her face indicated much ...

The girl, as soon as she could get away unperceived, fled in horror from the room, and spread the news amongst the people. At on ...

THE WREN The wren is mortally hated by the Irish; for on one occasion, when the Irish troops were approaching to attack a portio ...

considered lucky, and their singing keeps away the fairies at night, who are always anxious, in their selfish way, to have the w ...