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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... verging towards the west as the evening was dying away and making room for the shades of night, and hope had wellnigh abated of beholding once more the Lady of the Lake. The young man cast a sad and last Unbaked is thy bread! ...
... night with him there. John Gethin was a plucky fellow (dyn "ysprydol"), and he agreed to join the dyn llawharn in his diablerie. The wizard traced two rings on the sward touching each other "like a number 8"; he went into one, and ...
... night she was taken away from him. She had three or four children, and more than one of their descendants, as Glasynys maintains, were known to him at the time he wrote in 1863. Glasynys regards this as the same tale which is given by ...
... night, when there was a chilling wind blowing from the north, she came near the window of his bedroom, and told him in these words to take care of the children Lest my son should find it cold, Place on him his father's coat Lest the ...
... night, as one of the sons of the farmer who lived at Llwyn On in Nanty Bettws was going to pay his addresses to a girl at Clogwyn y Gwin, he beheld the Tylwyth Teg enjoying themselves in full swing on a meadow close to Cwellyn Lake. He ...