Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

By Wilde, F. S.

Book Id: WPLBN0003467019
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Reproduction Date: 2014

Title:	Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
Author:	Wilde, F. S.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Sacred Texts, Ireland, Celtic
Collections:	Sacred Texts
Historic Publication Date:	1887
Publisher:	London: Ward & Downey


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Description: Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland By Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde The superstition, then, of the Irish peasant is the instinctive belief in the existence of certain unseen agencies that influence all human life; and with the highly sensitive organization of their race, it is not wonderful that the people live habitually under the shadow and dread of invisible powers which, whether working for good or evil, are awful and mysterious to the uncultured mind that sees only the strange results produced by certain forces, but knows nothing of approximate causes. Many of the Irish legends, superstitions, and ancient charms now collected were obtained chiefly from oral communications made by the peasantry themselves, either in Irish or in the Irish-English which preserves so much of the expressive idiom of the antique tongue.