Download or read book Legends of Irish Witches and Fairies written by Patrick Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ireland, fairies have disappeared from general view, but there was once widespread belief in supernatural beings who could assume the shape of an animal but more often were never seen, and who were believed to have great powers (mostly good). These stories were collected in nineteenth-century Ireland and recorded as told to the author.