Welsh Folk-lore: a Collection of the Folk-tales and Legends of North Wales: Being the Prize Essay of the National Eisteddfod, 1887Woodall, Minshall and Company, 1896 - 359 sider |
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Side 20
... entering into trouble , and your troubles are likely to commence , as you have the second time stricken me without a cause . ' " " Years passed on , and their children had grown up , and were particularly clever young men . Amidst so ...
... entering into trouble , and your troubles are likely to commence , as you have the second time stricken me without a cause . ' " " Years passed on , and their children had grown up , and were particularly clever young men . Amidst so ...
Side 34
... entering it in a great hurry , his foot stumbled on the threshold , and falling down into the room where his mother was sitting , the two pigmies seized the ball which had dropped from his hand and departed , showing the boy every mark ...
... entering it in a great hurry , his foot stumbled on the threshold , and falling down into the room where his mother was sitting , the two pigmies seized the ball which had dropped from his hand and departed , showing the boy every mark ...
Side 42
... , one after the other , to get a sight of him as he neared the house . He came to the door , and entered the house boldly enough , and inquired after his parents . The mistress answered him in a surly and 42 WELSH FOLK - LORE .
... , one after the other , to get a sight of him as he neared the house . He came to the door , and entered the house boldly enough , and inquired after his parents . The mistress answered him in a surly and 42 WELSH FOLK - LORE .
Side 59
... entered half full the house of the Tylwyth Tég , and they began forthwith washing their children . And when they had finished , they commenced singing , and the singing was entrancing . The dancing and the singing were both excellent ...
... entered half full the house of the Tylwyth Tég , and they began forthwith washing their children . And when they had finished , they commenced singing , and the singing was entrancing . The dancing and the singing were both excellent ...
Side 67
... entered the court , and a crowd of servants in expensive liveries came to meet them , and she was at once led through the great hall into a bed - chamber , the like of which she had never seen . There the mistress of the house , to whom ...
... entered the court , and a crowd of servants in expensive liveries came to meet them , and she was at once led through the great hall into a bed - chamber , the like of which she had never seen . There the mistress of the house , to whom ...
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Aberhafesp afterwards aged ancient animals appeared became believed Bryneglwys Brython Bylchau called carried cattle Cerrig-y-Drudion changeling charm church churn Coblynau conjuror Corwen Cwn Annwn Denbigh Denbighshire Devil disappeared door Efenechtyd Evil Spirit eyes fair Fairies dancing Fairy ladies farm farmer fire Folk-Lore following tale gave Ghost Giraldus Cambrensis girl goblins Gors Goch hare heard horse husband informed Jones kind knew Knockers lake legend lived Llandegla Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd Llanfihangel Llanfor Llanidloes Llanycil Llyn looked married Merionethshire milk Montgomeryshire morning mother mountain neighbourhood never night old woman once Owen Owen Jones parish Pentrevoelas person preceding race Rector river Roberts Ruthin Satan seen servant spot stone story supposed thought told took tradition Tylwyth Têg Wales walked Welsh wife witch words WREXHAM writer yarn young
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Side 221 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Side 220 - Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf. Witches' mummy , maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i...
Side 184 - To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Side 96 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Side 221 - In a close lane as I pursu'd my journey, I spy'da wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Side 86 - And, while they sleep and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp ; I spin their tow ; If any wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Side 29 - And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Side 89 - In olde dayes of the king Artour, " Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, <• All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; "The elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie " Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. " This was the old opinion as I rede...
Side 69 - Through keyholes we do glide; Over tables, stools, and shelves, We trip it with our fairy elves. And if the house be foul With platter, dish, or bowl...
Side 116 - People who know very little of arts or sciences, or the powers of nature, (which, in other words, are the powers of the Author of nature,) will laugh at us Cardiganshire miners, who maintain the existence of knockers in mines, a kind of good-natured impalpable people, not to be seen, but heard, and who seem to us to work in the mines ; that is to say, they are the types, or forerunners of working in mines, as dreams are of some accidents which happen to us.