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FOLKLORE & MYTH

A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight by David Webster
A Second Manx Scrapbook by W. Walter Gill
A Witch's Natural History by Giles Watson
Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde
Animism by George William Gilmore
Beside The Fire by Douglas Hyde
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore by Enid Porter & Walter Henry Barrett
Cath Maige Tuired {The Second Battle of Mag Tuired} Translated by Elizabeth A. Gray
Celtic Folklore: Welsh & Manx by John Rhys
Celtic Myth and Legend by Charles Squire
Celtic Mythology and Religion by Alexander MacBain
Coloured Fairy Book Series by Andrew Lang
Concerning the Use & Symbolism of Nails by Martin Duffy
Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Augusta Gregory
Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine Old World and New World Traditions by Gabrielle Hatfield
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by William Butler Yeats
Fairy Legends and Traditions by Thomas Crofton Croker
Flidais Foltchaoin by Morgan Daimler
Flowers and flower-lore by Hilderic Friend
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art by Thomas A. Green
Folklore: Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by James Napier
Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton Dyer
Folklore of the Scottish Lochs and Streams by James MacInlay
Folk-Lore of Women by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Funeral Customs by Bertram S. Puckle
Gaelic incantations, charms, and blessings of the Hebrides
Gaelic Names of Plants
Geoffrey of Monmouth Histories of the Kings of Britain {Translated by Sebastian Evans}
Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth by Carol Rose
Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Augusta Gregory
Grimm's Tales
Hex Signs by Don Yoder & Thomas E. Graves
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
Irish Folk Ways by E. Estyn Evans
Irish Popular Superstitions by Sir William Wilde
Irish Witchcraft & Demonology by John D Seymor
Islands in the Sky by Wayne D Bliss
Jack-in-the-Green by Roy Judge
Kilns, Mills, Millers, Meal and Bread by Walter Gregor
Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy
Llyfr Taliesin
Lore of the Unicorn by Odell Shepard
Masks of Misrule by Nigel Jackson
Mazes and Labyrinths by W.H. Matthews
Mona Miscellany by Willaim Harrison
Mother Bunch's Closet by George Laurence Gomme
Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtain
Necromancy in the Irish Tradition by Gorm Sionnach
Nookomis O Dibajamonwin by Edwin Higgins
Note from the Underground by David Rose
Notes on The Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland by Walter Gregor
Origins of Festivals and Feasts by Jean Harrowven
Origins of Rhymes, Songs and Sayings by Jean Harrowven
Ozark Magic and Folklore by Vance Randolph
Peasant Lore from Gaelic Ireland by Daniel Deeney
Plant lore, legends and lyrics by Richard Folkard
Peep at the Pixies by Anna Eliza Bray
Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt
Popular Tales of the West Highlands by J. F. Campbell
Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster by Thomas Potts, Edward Bromley & James Crossley
Pow-Wows by John George Hoffman
Reading the Bean Feasa by Gearoid O Crualaoich
Rowan Tree & Red Thread by Thomas Davidson
Scottish Charms & Amulets by Geoffrey Black
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by George Douglas
Scottish Herbal from 18th Century
Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings by Georgina Frederica Jackson, Charlotte Sophia Burne & J Raven
Spirits on Stone by Thor Conway
Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland by John Gregerson Campbell
Survivals in Belief Among the Celts by George Henderson
Táin Bó Cúalnge {The Cattle-Raid of Cooley} by Joseph Dunn
The Evil Eye in Early Irish Literature & Law by Fergus Kelly
The Táin {translation by} Thomas Kinsella
Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing
The Ancient Irish Goddess of War by WM Hennessey
The Book of the Cailleach by Gearóid Ó Crualaoich
The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley
The Candle of Vision by AE/George William Russell
The Carmina Gadelica by Alexander Carmicheal: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
The Cattle Raid of Cualnge by L. Winifred Faraday
The Colloquy with the Ancients by Standish Hayes O Grady
The Crooked Scythe by George Ewart Evans
The Darker Superstitions of Scotland by John Graham Dalyell
The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel, Translated by Whitely Stokes
The Fairy Family by Archibald Maclaren
The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans Wentz
The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
The Forge of Tubal Cain by Ann & Dave Finnin
The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi by Will Parker
The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Essence
The Handbook of Folklore by George Laurence Gomme
The Horse in the Furrow by George Ewart Evans
The King with Horse Ears and Other Irish Folktales by Batt Burns
The Leaping Hare by George Ewart Evans & David Thompson
The Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest
The Magic of the Horse-Shoe With Other Folk-Lore Notes by Robert Means Lawrence
The Mythic Forest by Gary R Varner
The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs by T. Sharper Knowlson
The Pattern Under the Plough by George Ewart Evans
The Phynodderre and Other Legends of the Isle of Man by Edward Callow
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer by Alexander Mackenzie
The Religious Songs of Connacht by Douglas Hyde
The Real Middle-Earth by Brian Bates
The Road to Hel by Hilda Roderick Ellis
The Silver Bough volumes 1 to 4 by Marian McNeill
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk and Andrew Lang
The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
The Way of Wyrd by Brian Bates
The Vita Merlini/The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Voyage of Bran by Kuno Meyer
Three Irish Glossaries
Toads and toadstools By Adrian Morgan
Tom Tit Tot by Edward Clodd
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell Vol 1
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Botterell Vol 2
Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore by Charles Hardwick
Ulster Folklore by Elizabeth Andrews
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland by Lady Augusta Gregory
War Goddess: The Morrígan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts by Angelique Gulermovich Epstein
Witch's Milk & Witches' Marks by Thomas R. Forbes
Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951 by Owen Davies
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregerson Campbell
Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend by Donald Alexander Mackenzie

HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY

A History of Morris Dancing by Cecil J. Sharp
A Smaller Social History of Ireland by P.W. Joyce
A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides by Thomas Pennant
Almaguin: A Highland History by Astrid Taim
Ancient Laws of Ireland
Animals in Celtic Life and Myth by Miranda Green
Auraicept na n-éces: The Scholars' Primer by George Calder
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
Carlow to Lanark: An Irish Family History by Robert Dawson Tennant
Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia by John Koch
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by Edward Arwyl
Cunning-Folk by Owen Davies
Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: a Popular Survey of Agricultural Conditions, Practices, and Ideals in the United States and Canada (1907-09)
For Puir Auld Scotland's Sake by Jame Logie Robertson
Friend or Foe? Hospitality and the Threshold in Scottish Tradition by Dr Neill Martin
General View of the Agriculture of the Isle of Man by Basil Quayle
Geis, Prophecy, Omen and Oath by T. M. Charles-Edwards
Grimoires: A History of Magical Books by Owen Davies
Heresy, Magic & Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Gary Waite
Horse and Hattock: The Origin of the Witch's Chant by Sarah Lawless
In Scottish Fields by James Logie Robertson
Irish Ethno-Botany and the Evolution of Medicine in Ireland by Michael Francis Moloney
Love Magic in Medieval Irish Penitentials, Laws and Literature: A Dynamic Perspective by Jaqueline Borsje
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe by H R Ellis Davidson
On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry Orality in Medieval Irish Narrative by Joseph Falaky Nagy

Pagan Celtic Ireland by Barry Raftery
Picts, Gaels and Scots by Sally M Foster
Prehistoric Cooking by Jacqui Wood
Reflections of Restoule, 1850-1990 : local history by June Hample
Religion and Society in Ireland by Clare Stancliff
Rules and Legislation on Love Charms in Early Medieval Ireland by Jaqueline Borsje
Seeing the Wood for the Trees by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton
The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
The Brehon Law by Michael Ragan
The Brehon Laws by Laurence Ginnell
The History of Magic by Joseph Ennemoser, William Howitt & Mary Botham Howitt
The History of Witchcraft by Lois Martin
The Horse Among the Celts by Kym Lambert
This Irish Origin-Legend: Synthetic Pseudohistory by John Carey

The Oxford History of Ireland by R.F Foster

The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Ronald Hutton
The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. MacCulloch
The Rise and Fall of Merry England by Ronald Hutton
The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie by Emma Wilby
The Witch Trials
Witches, Druids & King Arthur by Ronald Hutton
Witches & Neighbours by Robin Briggs

POETRY & BALLADS