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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... sometimes formed into companies for dancing, and their movements were marvellously graceful and attractive. But it was not safe to go too near the lake late at night, for once a brave girl, who was troubled with toothache, got up at ...
... Sometimes the inhabitants, who seem to have been on the whole on good terms with the fairies, used to heat water and leave it in a vessel on the hearth overnight for the fairies to wash their children in it. This they considered such a ...
... sometimes 1 been regarded as a stockaded island rather than as an instance of pile dwellings. In the Brython for 1863, pp. 11415, is to be found what purports to be a copy of a version of the Legend of Llyn Syfaddon, as contained in a ...
... sometimes δ, like a small Greek delta: this will be found represented by ð in the Welsh extracts edited by me in this volume. 3:1 'Blaensawdde, or the upper end of the river Sawdde, is situate about threequarters of a mile southeast ...
... sometimes with a surd r, produced by making the breath cause both lips to vibrate tR'wi, tR'wi, which can hardly be distinguished from pR'wi, pR'wi. For the more forcibly the lips are vibrated the more difficult it becomes to start by ...