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The traffic in wind and the Gallizenæ

Wells with rags and pins

St. Catherine's hen plucked at Colby

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Manx reserve and the belief in the Enemy of Souls
The witch of Endor's influence and the respecta-
bility of the charmer's vocation

Public penance enforced pretty recently

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T. E. Morris' account of the pin well of ILanfaglan
Other wishing and divining wells
The sacred fish of ILanberis and ILangybi
Ffynnon Grassi producing the Glasfryn lake
The Morgan of that lake and his name
Ffynnon Gywer producing Bala Lake

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The parallels of Lough Neagh and Lough Ree
Seithennin's realm overwhelmed by the sea.
Seithennin's name and its congeners

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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. 395

CHAPTER VII

TRIUMPHS OF THE WATER-WORLD

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.

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The sea encroaching on the coast of Glamorgan
The Kenfig tale of crime and vengeance

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The fate of Tyno Helig

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The belief in cities submerged intact

The phantom city and the bells of Aberdovey

The ethics of the foregoing legends discussed
The limits of the delay of punishment
Why the fairies delay their vengeance
Non-ethical legends of the eruption of water

Cutting the green sward a probable violation
ancient tabu avenged by water divinities
The lake afanc's rôle in this connexion.
The pigmies of the water-world

The Conwy afanc and the Highland water-horse.
The equine features of March and Labraid Lorc.
Mider and the Mac Óc's well horses

The Gilla Decair's horse and Du March Moro

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Names of the Dee and other rivers in North Wales

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The question of classification.

The fairy cave of the Arennig Fawr
The cave of Mynyd y Cnwc

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Waring's version of Iolo's legend of Craig y Dinas
Craigfryn Hughes' Monmouthshire tale

The story of the cave occupied by Owen Lawgoch
How London Bridge came to figure in that story.
Owen Lawgoch in Ogo'r Dinas

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Dinas Emrys with the treasure hidden by Merlin
Snowdonian treasure reserved for the Goidel
Arthur's death on the side of Snowdon .

The graves of Arthur and Rhita

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Returning heroes for comparison with Arthur and

Owen Lawgoch.

The baledwyr's Owen to return as Henry the Ninth
Owen a historical man= Froissart's Yvain de Gales
Froissart's account of him and the questions it raises
Owen ousting Arthur as a cave-dweller
Arthur previously supplanting a divinity of the class

of the sleeping Cronus of Demetrius
Arthur's original sojourn located in Faery

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