Chapter Vii. Fairy Music : Chapter VII Fairy Music Birds of Enchantment--The Legend of Shon ap Shenkin--Harp Music in Welsh Fairy Tales--Legend of the Magic Harp--Songs and Tunes of the Tylwyth Teg--The Legend of Iola ap Hugh--Mystic origin of an old Welsh Air I. IN those rare cases where it is not dancing which holds...
Chapter Vi. Living With The Tylwyth Teg : Chapter VI Living with the Tylwyth Teg The Tale of Elidurus--Shui Rhys and the Fairies--St. Dogmell's Parish, Pembrokeshire--Dancing with the Ellyllon--The Legend of Rhys and llewellyn--Death from joining in the Fairy Reel--Legend of the Bush of Heaven--The Forest of the Magic Yew--The Tale of Twm...
Chapter X. Fairy Money And Fairy Gifts In General : Chapter X Fairy Money and Fairy Gifts in General The Story of Gitto Bach, or Little Griffith--The Penalty of Blabbing--Legends of the Shepherds of Cwm Llan--The Money Value of Kindness--Ianto Llewellyn and the Tylwyth Teg--The Legend of Hafod Lwyddog--Lessons inculcated by these Superstitions. I...
Chapter I. Fairy Tales And The Ancient Mythology : Chapter I Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology At eve, the primrose path along, The milkmaid shortens with a song Her solitary way; She sees the fairies with their queen Trip hand-in-hand the circled green, And hears them raise, at times unseen, The ear-enchanting lay. Rev. John Logan: "Ode...
Chapter Viii. Fairy Rings : Chapter VIII Fairy Rings The Prophet Jones and his Works--The Mysterious Languages of the Tylwyth Teg--The Horse in Welsh Folk-Lore--Equestrian Fairies--Fairy Cattle, Sheep, Swine etc.--The Flying Fairies of Bedwellty--The Fairy Sheepfold at Cae'r Cefn. I. THE circles in the grass of green fields...
Chapter V. Changelings : Chapter V Changelings The Plentyn-newid--The Cruel Creed of Ignorance regarding Changelings--Modes of Ridding the House of the Fairy Child--The Legend of the Frugal Meal--Legend of the Place of Strife--Dewi Dal and the Fairies--Prevention of Fairy Kidnapping--Fairies caught in the Act by...
Chapter Xi. Origins Of Welsh Fairies : Chapter XI. Origins of Welsh Fairies The Realistic Theory--Legend of the Baron's Gate--The Red Fairies--The Trwyn Fairy a Proscribed Nobelman--The Theory of Hiding Druids--Colour in Welsh Fairy Attire--The Green Lady of Caerphilly--White is the favourite Welsh Hue--Legend of the Prolific Wom...
Chapter Ix. Piety As A Protecti : Chapter IX Piety as a Protection from the Seductions of the Tylwyth Teg Various Exorcisms--Cock-crowing--The Name of God--Fencing off the Fairies--Old Betty Griffith and her Eikthin Barricade--Means of getting Rid of the Tylwyth Teg--The Bwbach of the Hendrefawr Farm--The Pwca'r Trwyn's Flitting...
Chapter Ii. Classification Of Welsh Fairies : Chapter II Classification of Welsh Fairies General Designation--Habits of the Tylwyth Teg--Ellyllon, or Elves--Shakespeare's Use of Welsh Folk-Lore--Rwli Pugh and the Ellyll--Household Story Roots--The Ellylldan--The Pooka--Puck Valley, Breconshire--Where Shakespeare got his Puck--Pwca 'r...
Chapter Iv. Mountain Fairies : Chapter IV Mountain Fairies The Gwyllion--The Old Woman of the Mountain--The Black Mountain Gwyll--Exorcism by Knife--Occult Intellectual Powers of Welsh Goats--The Legend of Cadwaladr's Goat I. THE Gwyllion are female fairies of frightful characteristics, who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh...
Chapter Iii. Lake Fairies : Chapter III Lake Fairies The Gwragedd Annwn, or Dames of Elfin Land--St Patrick and the Welshmen; a Legend of Crumlyn Lake--The Elfin Cow of Lyn Barfog--Y Fuwch Laethwen Lefrith--The Legend of the Meddygon Myddfai--The Wife of Supernatural Race--The Three Blows; a Carmathenshire Legend--Cheese...
Title Page : BRITISH GOBLINS Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends And Traditions BY WIRT SIKES [b. 1836 D. 1883] WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY T. H. THOMAS London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington [1880] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing By John B. Hare. This Text Is...
