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 39
... round and round went her lover , until at last daylight appeared , and then suddenly the music ceased and the Fairy band vanished , and with them her lover . In great dismay , the young woman shouted the name of her ORIGIN OF THE ...
... round and round went her lover , until at last daylight appeared , and then suddenly the music ceased and the Fairy band vanished , and with them her lover . In great dismay , the young woman shouted the name of her ORIGIN OF THE ...
Side 40
... round and round the circle close to the young man , carefully avoiding the circle , and at last she succeeded in taking hold of him and desired him to come away with her . " Oh , ” said he , “ do let me alone a little longer , and then ...
... round and round the circle close to the young man , carefully avoiding the circle , and at last she succeeded in taking hold of him and desired him to come away with her . " Oh , ” said he , “ do let me alone a little longer , and then ...
Side 53
... round a woman before she was churched , and round the child until he was christened , daily , night and morning , preserved both from the evil designs of the Fairies . ( Brand , vol . ii . , p . 486. ) And it will be shortly shewn that ...
... round a woman before she was churched , and round the child until he was christened , daily , night and morning , preserved both from the evil designs of the Fairies . ( Brand , vol . ii . , p . 486. ) And it will be shortly shewn that ...
Side 73
... round bit of green ground , close to one of the gates on Tan - y - Coed farm , and going up to it discovered a piece of silver lying on the sward . Day after day , from the same spot , he picked up a silver coin . By this means , as ...
... round bit of green ground , close to one of the gates on Tan - y - Coed farm , and going up to it discovered a piece of silver lying on the sward . Day after day , from the same spot , he picked up a silver coin . By this means , as ...
Side 74
... round to see whether the Fairies had taken his stick away , and with it the chest ; but no , there it remained . At last the ridge hid all from view , and , instead of going on to Bala , he hastened home to tell his good wife of his ...
... round to see whether the Fairies had taken his stick away , and with it the chest ; but no , there it remained . At last the ridge hid all from view , and , instead of going on to Bala , he hastened home to tell his good wife of his ...
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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.