Abstract
UP till comparatively recent times the material available for the study of Irish and Scotch Gaelic folktales was extremely limited. Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends,1 Kennedy's Legendary Fictions 2 and Fireside Stories,3 Curtin's Myths 4 and Hero Tales 5 and Tales of the Fairies,6 Campbell's Popular Tales,7 Lady Wilde's Ancient Legends,8 and Hyde's Beside the Fire,9 were about all the sources that folklorists could use; and these were mostly written when the study of folklore was comparatively undeveloped. Consequently even standard works such as Bolte and Polivka's Anmerkungen are at their weakest when they come to deal with Ireland. The position is now quite otherwise. A considerable number of local folktale collections have been
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