PREFACE.
There is very little to be said about this book in
the shape of a preface. The superstition of the
Evil Eye is, and has been, one of the most general
that ever existed among men. ...
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William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the ...
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The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector
William Carleton