Lady Gregory's West of Ireland folklore collection opens a doorway into a living world where herbs, charms, saints, and fairies all shape everyday life. Farmers, widows, healers, and laborers speak in vivid rural testimony about cures for bleeding, ulcers, headaches, jaundice, childbirth, heart pain, and fear, while warning that timing, prayer, secrecy, and proper respect can determine whether a remedy works. Some accounts praise gifted women who diagnose illness, heal people and animals, recover stolen goods, or transfer pain; others hint at witchcraft, priestly disapproval, and the danger of handling sacred knowledge carelessly. As the stories widen, the supernatural becomes part of work, travel, and chance encounters: ships appear on mountain lakes, strangers vanish in fields, food is spoiled by hidden visitors, and mysterious fairs, coaches, and white-clad figures drift through woods, marshes, roads, forts, and the sea. The tone is practical, eerie, and often humorous, presenting fairylore, pishogues, blessed wells, and uncanny processions as part of ordinary rural reality. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.