The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector / The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Chapters (37)
- THE EVIL EYE;
- OR, THE BLACK SPECTOR
- List of Illustrations
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. Short and Preliminary.
- CHAPTER II. A Murderer's Wake and the Arrival of a Stranger
- CHAPTER III. Breakfast next morning.
- —Woodward, on his way Home, meets a Stranger.—Their Conversation.
- CHAPTER IV. Woodward meets a Guide
- —His Reception at Home—Preparations for a Fete.
- CHAPTER V. The Bonfire—The Prodigy.
- CHAPTER VI. Shawn-na-Middogue
- —Shan-Dhinne-Dhuv, or The Black Spectre.
- CHAPTER VII. A Council of Two
- —Visit to Beech Grove.—The Herbalist
- CHAPTER VIII. A Healing of the Breach.
- —A Proposal for Marriage Accepted.
- CHAPTER IX. Chase of the White Hare.
- “Hark, forward, forward; holla ho!”
- CHAPTER X. True Love Defeated.
- CHAPTER XI. A Conjurer's Levee.
- CHAPTER XII. Fortune-telling
- CHAPTER XIII. Woodward is Discarded from Mr. Goodwin's Family
- —Other Particulars of Importance.
- CHAPTER XIV. Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay
- Shawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay in Mistake for his Brother
- CHAPTER XV. The Banshee.—Disappearance of Grace Davoren.
- CHAPTER XVI. A House of Sorrow.
- —After which follows a Courting Scene.
- —Their Manner of Swearing
- CHAPTER XVIII. The Toir, or Tory Hunt.
- CHAPTER XIX. Plans and Negotiations.
- CHAPTER XX. Woodward's Visit to Ballyspellan.
- CHAPTER XXI. The Dinner at Ballyspellan
- —The Appearance Woodward.—Valentine Greatrakes.
- CHAPTER XXII. History of the Black Spectre.
- CHAPTER XXIII. Greatrakes at Work—Denouement
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