Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland: Charms, Cures and Fairy Lore
Lady Wilde
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Irish charms, cures, banshees and fairy doctors, taken down in the west of Ireland by Oscar Wilde's mother, who wrote for the nationalist press as Speranza and collected in Irish among people who still used these things. This edition is bound with sixty plates of paintings by Robert Dobson, Richard Wane, Erskine Nicol and George Morland, dating from 1789 to 1913.
Irish charms, cures, banshees and fairy doctors, taken down in the west of Ireland by Oscar Wilde's mother, who wrote for the nationalist press as Speranza and collected in Irish among people who still used these things. This edition is bound with sixty plates of paintings by Robert Dobson, Richa...
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Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) was an Irish poet and folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde, who wrote nationalist verse as Speranza for The Nation during the famine years. With her husband, the surgeon and antiquary William Wilde, she collected Irish folklore in the west. Her works include Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland and Ancient Cures.
Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) was an Irish poet and folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde, who wrote nationalist verse as Speranza for The Nation during the famine years. With her husband, the surgeon and antiquary William Wilde, she collected Irish folklore in the west. Her works include Ancient Legen...
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