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pickett22's review
5.0
This was excellent!
It's a collection of stories from people around the West of Ireland as told to Lady Gregory over a couple of years. Some of them are only a paragraph long and amount to, "I've never seen them, but one killed my sister," while others are a page or two and more detailed. Most are very short. It's divided into sections, like, "charms," "blacksmiths," "butter" (which I did not know was a big thing but apparently people used magic to steal butter a lot), "monsters," and a bunch more that I can't remember and my cat is sleeping adorably on the book so I can't check. Then withing those sections there was a sort of order as well, as there were many pages within one section that were entirely devoted to sightings of big, black dogs. It was super well organized and highly readable.
It's a collection of stories from people around the West of Ireland as told to Lady Gregory over a couple of years. Some of them are only a paragraph long and amount to, "I've never seen them, but one killed my sister," while others are a page or two and more detailed. Most are very short. It's divided into sections, like, "charms," "blacksmiths," "butter" (which I did not know was a big thing but apparently people used magic to steal butter a lot), "monsters," and a bunch more that I can't remember and my cat is sleeping adorably on the book so I can't check. Then withing those sections there was a sort of order as well, as there were many pages within one section that were entirely devoted to sightings of big, black dogs. It was super well organized and highly readable.
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