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 6
... thing is said of the Fairies . Tradition speaks of them as being enamoured of the inhabitants of this earth , and content , for awhile , to be wedded to mortals . And there are families in Wales who are said to have Fairy blood coursing ...
... thing is said of the Fairies . Tradition speaks of them as being enamoured of the inhabitants of this earth , and content , for awhile , to be wedded to mortals . And there are families in Wales who are said to have Fairy blood coursing ...
Side 8
... thing is done , and the lady vanishes away . Such are the chief features of these mythical marriages . I will now record like tales that have found a home in several parts of Wales . WELSH LEGENDS OF FAIRY LADIES MARRYING MEN , 1. The ...
... thing is done , and the lady vanishes away . Such are the chief features of these mythical marriages . I will now record like tales that have found a home in several parts of Wales . WELSH LEGENDS OF FAIRY LADIES MARRYING MEN , 1. The ...
Side 35
... thing of the real history of an ancient people whose customs were those of a regular and consistent policy . Roberts supposes that the smaller race for the purpose of replenish- ing their ranks stole the children of their conquerors ...
... thing of the real history of an ancient people whose customs were those of a regular and consistent policy . Roberts supposes that the smaller race for the purpose of replenish- ing their ranks stole the children of their conquerors ...
Side 43
... things there were greatly changed . After conversing awhile with an aged man who sat by the fire , they carefully looked each other in the face , and the old man by the fire related the sad history of his lost friend , the son of Llech ...
... things there were greatly changed . After conversing awhile with an aged man who sat by the fire , they carefully looked each other in the face , and the old man by the fire related the sad history of his lost friend , the son of Llech ...
Side 46
... things for playing , but he could discern no inhabitant in the whole place ; and when he sat down to eat , the dishes on the table came to their places of them- selves and disappeared when one had done with them . This puzzled him ...
... things for playing , but he could discern no inhabitant in the whole place ; and when he sat down to eat , the dishes on the table came to their places of them- selves and disappeared when one had done with them . This puzzled him ...
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