Sacred Texts  Legends and Sagas  Celtic  Index  Previous  Next 
Buy this Book at Amazon.com


The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911], at sacred-texts.com


p. v

CONTENTS

PREFACE

vii

INTRODUCTION

xi

SECTION I

 

THE LIVING FAIRY-FAITH

 

CHAPTER I

 

ENVIRONMENT

1-16

CHAPTER II

 

THE TAKING OF EVIDENCE

17-225

CHAPTER III

 

AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE

226-82

SECTION II

 

THE RECORDED FAIRY-FAITH

 

CHAPTER IV

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE GODDESS DANA OR THE SIDHE

283-307

CHAPTER V

 

BRYTHONIC DIVINITIES AND THE BRYTHONIC FAIRY-FAITH

308-31

CHAPTER VI

 

THE CELTIC OTHERWORLD

332-57

p. vi

 

CHAPTER VII

 

THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF RE-BIRTH

358-96

SECTION III

 

THE CULT OF GODS, SPIRITS, FAIRIES, AND THE DEAD

 

CHAPTER VIII

 

THE TESTIMONY OF ARCHAEOLOGY

397-426

CHAPTER IX

 

THE TESTIMONY OF PAGANISM

427-41

CHAPTER X

 

THE TESTIMONY OF CHRISTIANITY

442-55

SECTION IV

 

MODERN SCIENCE AND THE FAIRY-FAITH; AND CONCLUSIONS

 

CHAPTER XI

 

SCIENCE AND FAIRIES

456-515

CHAPTER XII

 

THE CELTIC DOCTRINE OF RE-BIRTH AND OTHERWORLD SCIENTIFICALLY EXAMINED

492-515

INDEX

516-24

 


Next: Preface