Olcott. The Book of Elves and Fairies

Today's free book is The Book of Elves and Fairies by Frances Jenkins Olcott (1918), with illustrations by Milo Winter. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg (I have not checked for other online sources). There's also a free audiobook at LibriVox.



Table of Contents

PART ONE: FAIRY-LORE AND ELFIN LEGENDS

AROUND! AROUND! IN FAIRY RINGS!
“In the Glowing Light of a Summer Sky”
Adventures of Robin Goodfellow
The Potato Supper
The Milk-White Calf and the Fairy Ring
The Wood-Lady
The Dance of the Fairies

ELFIN MOUNDS AND FAIRY HILLS
“’Tis the Midnight Hour”
Monday! Tuesday!
The Greedy Old Man
Legend of Bottle Hill
The Brown Dwarf

LITTLE MEN AND TREASURES OF GOLD
“And will you come away, my Lad?”
The Boy who found the Pots of Gold
The Ragweed
The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun
Tom and the Knockers
The Knockers’ Diamonds
Skillywidden
The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker

GLAD LITTLE, SAD LITTLE, BAD LITTLE ELVES
“Saint Francis and Saint Benedict”
Little Redcap
The Curmudgeon’s Skin
Judy and the Fairy Cat
The Boggart
Ownself
The Sick-Bed Elves
How Peeping Kate was Piskey-Led
One-Eyed Prying Joan’s Tale
The Fairy Folk

FAIRY SERVANTS IN THE HOUSE
“Their Dwellings be”
The Fairy’s Servants
The Pixies
The Brownie of Blednoc
Elsa and the Ten Elves
Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay!
The Fairy Wedding
The Tomts
Song of the Elfin Miller

FAYS OF WATER, WOOD, AND MEADOW
“Over Hill, over Dale”
Kintaro the Golden Boy
The Flower Fairies
The Fairy Island
The Four-Leaved Clover
The Gillie Dhu
How Kahukura learned to make Nets
Echo, the Cave Fairy
The Isles of the Sea Fairies

AWAY! AWAY! TO FAIRYLAND
“But we that live in Fairyland”
The Magic Ferns
The Smith and the Fairies
The Coal-Black Steed
The Girl who was stolen by the Fairies
The Girl who danced with the Fairies
Elidore and the Golden Ball

At the Court of Fairyland: Selections from Ben Jonson, Michael Drayton, Joseph Rodman Drake, Shakespeare, and Old Ballads

PART TWO: FAIRY STORIES

FAIRY GODMOTHERS AND WONDERFUL GIFTS
“Rap! Rap! Rap!”
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
Prince Chéri
Toads and Diamonds
Blanche and Rose
The Enchanted Watch
Queen Mab

FAIRY ADVENTURES
“A Little Knight and Little Maid”
Fairy Do-Nothing and Giant Snap-’Em-Up
Timothy Tuttle and the Little Imps
Butterfly’s Diamond
Little Niebla
Little Tiny
The Immortal Fountain
The Story of Childe Charity
The Shining Child and the Wicked Mouche
Mabel on Midsummer Day

FAREWELL! FAREWELL! DEAR FAIRIES
“Oh! where do Fairies hide their Heads?”
The Fairies’ Passage,
Old Winter’s Fairyland