Week 11, Reading Dairy, Celtic Tales

Story source: Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892)

The Field of Boliauns - I really enjoyed this leprechaun tale.  It is a story of how a man found a leprechaun and caught him. The man forced the leprechaun to tell him where the treasure is, but the leprechaun fooled him. I had to look up what a boliaun was and to the best I could find it appears to be the Gaelic name for Ragweed.

Boliaun

Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree - This is a story very similar to Snow White. The mother keeps trying to kill the daughter who is more beautiful. What I think is interesting is that in this story the daughter gets married. She is killed by poison from her mother and the husband locks her dead body away instead of burying it. He remarries and the new wife finds the dead one and revives her. The husband keeps both as his wives and the new wife helps kill the first wife's mother. Then they all three live happily ever after. It was really a different twist to the story.