Celtic Folklore Welsh and ManxLibrary of Alexandria, 28. sep. 2020 TOWARDS the close of the seventies I began to collect Welsh folklore. I did so partly because others had set the example elsewhere, and partly in order to see whether Wales could boast of any story-tellers of the kind that delight the readers of Campbell'sPopular Tales of the West Highlands. I soon found what I was not wholly unprepared for, that as a rule I could not get a single story of any length from the mouths of any of my fellow countrymen, but a considerable number of bits of stories. |
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... means of forcing the conviction, that the complex group of ideas identified with the little people is of more origins than one; in other words, that it is drawn partly from history and fact, and partly from the world of imagination and ...
... means of testing his work, as one will find on verifying his references, when he gives any. See also the allusions to him in Hartland's Science of Fairy Tales, pp. 64, 123, 137, 165,278. Since writing the foregoing notes the following ...
... means, among other things, that they chose a rising ground. This is referred to in a modern rhyme, which runs thus: A'r Tylwyth Tegyn dauwnsi'on sionc O gylch magïen Pen y Bonc. With the fairies nimbly dancing round The glowworm on the ...
... means of stocking it, so that they felt rather distressed in their minds. But lo and behold! one day a whiteheaded bull came out of the lake, bringing with him six black cows to their land. There never were the like of those cows for ...
... means, though I am, on the whole, convinced that the words are other than of Welsh origin. The last of them, ffrit, is usually applied in Cardiganshire to anything worthless or insignificant, and the derivative, ffrityn, means one who ...