CONTENTS i. The legend of Lyn y Fan Fach 2 11. The legend of Lyn y Forwyn 23 in. Some Snowdon lake legends 30 i. The folklore of Nant Conwy *97 ii. Scenes of the Mabinogi of Math 207 Hi. Celynnog Fawr and Lanaelhaearn .... 214 iv. The blind man's folklore 219 v. The old saddler's recollections 222 vii. March and his horse's ears 231 Viii. The story of the Marchlyn Mawr 234 ix. The fairy ring of Cae ILeidr Dyfrydog . . . .238 xi. Sundry traits of fairy character 244 The fenodyree or Manx brownie . The sleih beggey or little people The butches or witches and the hare Comparisons from the Channel Islands Magic and ancient modes of thought The efficacy of fire to detect the witch Laa Lhunys or the beginning of harvest The brownie of Blednoch and Bwca'r Trwyn Prognostication parallels from Lincolnshire The traffic in wind and the Gallizenae . St. Catherine's hen plucked at Colby The qualtagh or the first-foot and the question of race Sundry instances of things unlucky Manx reserve and the belief in the Enemy of Souls The witch of Endor's influence and the respecta- The author's view revised and illustrated T. E. Morris' account of the pin well of ILanfaglan Other wishing and divining wells . The sacred fish of ILanberis and Lang ybi . Ffynnon Grassi producing the Glasfryn lake The Morgan of that lake and his name . Ffynnon Gywer producing Bala Lake . Bala and other towns doomed to submersion 360 362 364 366 367 372 376 377 The legend of ILyn ILech Owen . The parallels of Lough Neagh and Lough Ree Seithennin's realm overwhelmed by the sea . Seithennin's name and its congeners Prof. Dawkins on the Lost Lands of Wales . Certain Irish wells not visited with impunity The Lough Sheelin legend compared with that of Seithennin The priesthood of the wells of St. Elian and St. Teilo CHAPTER VII Triumphs Of The Water-world The sea encroaching on the coast of Glamorgan . The Kenfig tale of crime and vengeance The Crymlyn story and its touch of fascination . Nennius' description of Oper Linn Liguan compared The vengeance legend of Bala Lake Legends about the ILynclys Pool . . The fate of Tyno Helig The belief in cities submerged intact Names of the Dee and other rivers in North Wales The Lydney god Nudons, Nuada, and ILud . The fairies associated in various ways with water 445 449 452 454 CHAPTER VIII Welsh Cave Legends 456 The question of classification 456 The fairy cave of the Arennig Fawr .... 456 The cave of Mynytf y Cnwc 457 Waring's version of Iolo's legend of Craig y Dinas 458 Craigfryn Hughes' Monmouthshire tale . . . 462 The story of the cave occupied by Owen Lawgoch . 464 How London Bridge came to figure in that story . . 466 Owen Lawgoch in Ogo'r Dinas 467 Dinas Emrys with the treasure hidden by Merlin . 469 Snowdonian treasure reserved for the Goidel . . 470 Arthur's death on the side of Snowdon .... 473 The graves of Arthur and Rhita 474 Elis o'r Nant's story of ILanciau Eryri's cave . . 476 The top of Snowdon named after Rhita.... 477 Drystan's cairn 480 The hairy man's cave 481 Returning heroes for comparison with Arthur and Owen Lawgoch 481 The baledwyr's Owen to return as Henry the Ninth . 484 Owen a historical man = Froissart's Yvain de Gales . 487 Froissart's account of him and the questions it raises . 488 Owen ousting Arthur as a cave-dweller . . . 493 of the sleeping Cronus of Demetrius . . . 493 Arthur's original sojourn located in Faery . . . 495 |