Skip to content
Valice Press

Free companion

The Fairy Mythology, Volume II

5 free downloadsPDFNo sign-up

Free material for the second volume: the western vocabulary, the collectors — and the collaborators — behind the English and Irish material, a scorecard of what became of his claims, the shared motif concordance, and the insular and Gaelic alphabet.

Free, no sign-up — just open and print.

See the book, its formats and where to buy it
Front cover of The Fairy Mythology, Volume II, published by Valice Press

Print and read

Free, no sign-up, reprint as often as you like.

  • The Words of the West

    PDF · US Letter · 2 pages

    Twenty-six terms — <i>pouke</i>, <i>pixy</i>, <i>brownie</i>, <i>sidhe</i>, <i>banshee</i>, <i>korrigan</i>, <i>lutin</i>, <i>duende</i> — with what each means and which language it is, and where a being also appears in Volume I under a northern name.

    Open PDF63 KB

  • Who Collected It

    PDF · US Letter · 1 page

    Croker, Hone, Scott, the Grimms and the rest — with what each published, which parts of the volume are theirs, and which of them Keightley worked with rather than merely read. That last distinction is why this volume needs the sheet more than Volume I does.

    Open PDF61 KB

  • Right, Wrong, Still Open

    PDF · US Letter · 2 pages

    Ten claims and what became of each — including one the author withdrew himself. The house-spirit family, the death-warners and the mine-spirits held. Celtic unity did not, and the Irish material is unusable as a record on Keightley’s own evidence.

    Open PDF48 KB

  • A Concordance of Motifs

    PDF · US Letter · 1 page

    The same measured concordance as Volume I, counted across both, so a reader of either can see where a thread begins and where it runs on.

    Open PDF60 KB

  • The Letters He Set

    PDF · US Letter · 1 page

    The insular and Gaelic type of the original. The Irish letters matter most in this volume: <i>daine maiṫ</i> and <i>siaḃra</i>, restored with the séimhiú dot Keightley printed.

    Open PDF46 KB

Optional email updates

Want to know when we add more?

Optional — the sheets above are yours either way. If you'd like an email when we publish new practice material or the next book after The Fairy Mythology, Volume II, leave an address. A few emails a year, unsubscribe in one click.

We only ever get your address because you typed it here. Amazon does not share customer details with publishers, and we never buy lists.

About this material

Thomas Keightley lived 1789–1872 and this text is the enlarged edition of 1850, reprinted in 1892, so it is in the public domain on two independent grounds. The illustration layer was assessed separately. This volume has no frontispiece — it is in Volume I — and carries one engraved block, the word Keightley says is called in the Arabic language znoon. Anonymous work published in 1850, and clear. One layer is REFUSED: the 141 one-letter images the 2012 transcribers made to stand for the insular and Gaelic letterforms are their work, not Keightley's, and this edition replaces every one with its Unicode character instead.

Browse the Valice Press catalogue