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Join Jack and Annie as they research leprechauns and Irish folklore and find out the facts behind the fiction.

A king's children are changed into swans by their evil stepmother and can only be changed back when twin mountain peaks, the Man from the North and the Woman from the South, are joined.

In this retelling of an Irish folktale, the Prince of Ireland's stepmother curses him to stay no longer than two nights anywhere until he brings her a giant's horses from the western edge of the world.

The best-selling author of the "Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" series combines mythology and magic in a high-action collection inspired by nine Irish legends, from a competition to become King of the Leprechauns to a trick designed to fool the Queen of the Fairies.

On Halloween night, Jack--a stingy and mean man--makes a deal with the devil for a free dinner, only to regret his choice many years later when the devil comes to collect.

Before he becomes a saint, Patrick drives all the snakes but one out of Ireland and that last one he throws into Scotland's Loch Ness.

Relates a legend about the Irish slave girl who became Saint Brigid, beginning with a celestial song, a mysterious gift, and a prophecy on the night of her birth.