Chapter Iv. Manx Folklore : CHAPTER IV MANX FOLKLORE Be it remembrid that one Manaman Mack Clere, a paynim, was the first inhabitour of the ysle of Man, who by his Necromancy kept the same, that when he was assaylid or invaded he wold rayse such mystes by land and sea that no man might well fynde owte the ysland, and he would...
Chapter Iii. Fairy Ways And Words : CHAPTER III FAIRY WAYS AND WORDS Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy! SHAKESPEARE. IN the previous chapters, the fairy lore of the Principality was hastily skimmed without any method; and I fear that, now I have to reproduce some of the things which I gleaned somewhat later, there will be, if...
Chapter Viii. Welsh Cave Legends : CHAPTER VIII WELSH CAVE LEGENDS IN previous chapters sundry allusions have been made to treasure caves besides that of Marchlyn Mawr, which has been given above. Here follow some more, illustrative of this kind of folklore prevalent in Wales: they are difficult to classify, but most of them menti...
Title Page : p. i CELTIC FOLKLORE WELSH AND MANX BY JOHN RHYS, M.A., D.LITT. VOLUME I Scanned , 2000-2003; J.B. Hare And Phillip Brown, Redactors. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Reproduced For Any Non-commercial Purpose Provided This Notice Is Left Intact. Oxford University Press, 1901 p...
Chapter Xi. Folklore Philosophy : CHAPTER XI FOLKLORE PHILOSOPHY To look for consistency in barbaric philosophy is to disqualify ourselves for understanding it, and the theories of it which aim at symmetry are their own condemnation. Yet that philosophy, within its own irregular confines, works not illogically--EDWARD CLODD. IT...
Additions And Corrections : ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS [01] I learn that the plural of "bodach glas" was in Welsh "bodachod gIension", a term which Elis o'r Nant remembers his mother applying to a kind of fairies dressed in blue and fond of leading people astray. She used to relate how a haymaking party once passed a summer's...
List Of Authorities And Sources : p. xii A GEOGRAPHICAL LIST OF AUTHORITIES AND SOURCES OF THE MORE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WELSH FOLKLORE ANGLESEY. ABERFFRAW: E. S. Roberts (after Hugh Francis), 240, 241. LLANDYFRYDOG: E. S. Roberts (after Robert Roberts), 239, 240. LLYN YR WYTH EIDION: (no particulars), 429. MYNYDD Y CNWC...
Chapter Ii. The Fairies' Revenge : p. 75 CHAPTER II THE FAIRIES' REVENGE In th' olde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queen, with hir joly companye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede; This was the olde opinion, as I rede. I speke of manye hundred...
Chapter Vii. Triumphs Of The Water World : CHAPTER VII TRIUMPHS OF THE WATER-WORLD Une des lgendes les plus rpandues en Bretagne est celle d'une prtendue ville d'ls, qui, une poque inconnue, aurait t' engloutie par la. mer. On montre, divers endroits de ]a cte, l'emplacement de cette cit fabuleuse, et les pcheurs vous en font d'tranges...
Chapter Ix. Place Name Stories : CHAPTER IX PLACE-NAME STORIES The "Dindisechas" is a collection of stories ("senchasa"), in Middle-Irish prose and verse, about the names of noteworthy places ("dind") in Ireland-plains, mountains, ridges, cairns, lakes, rivers, fords, estuaries, islands, and so forth.... But its value to students...
Preface : p. iii PREFACE 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's "Popular Tales of the West...
Chapter Xii. Race In Folklore And Myth : CHAPTER XII RACE IN FOLKLORE AND MYTH The method of philological mythology is thus discredited by the disputes of its adherents. The system may be called orthodox, but it is an orthodoxy which alters with every new scholar who enters the sacred enclosure.--ANDREW LANG. IT has been well said, th...
Chapter V. The Fenodyree And His Friends : CHAPTER V THE FENODYREE AND HIS FRIENDS THE last chapter is hardly such as to call for a recapitulation of its principal contents, and I venture to submit instead of any such repetition an abstract of some very pertinent notes on it by Miss M. G. W. Peacock, who compares with the folklore...
Chapter Vi. The Folklore Of The Wells : CHAPTER VI: THE FOLKLORE OF THE WELLS ... luvat integros accedere fontes.-LUCRETIUS. IT is only recently [a] that I heard for the first time of Welsh instances of the habit of tying rags and bits of clothing to the branches of a tree growing near a holy well. Since then I have obtained several...
Chapter X. Difficulties Of The Folklorist : CHAPTER X DIFFICULTIES OF THE FOLKLORIST For priests, with prayers and other godly gear, Have made the merry goblins disappear; And, where they played their merry pranks before, Have sprinkled holy water on the floor.-DRYDEN. THE attitude of the Kymry towards folklore and popular superstitions...
Chapter I. Undine's Kymric Sisters : p. 1 CHAPTER I UNDINE'S KYMRIC SISTERS Undine, liebes Bildeben du, Seit ich zuerst aus alten Kunden Dein seltsam Leuchten aufgefunden, Wie sangst du oft mein Herz in Ruh! DE LA MOTTE FOUQU. THE chief object of this and several of the following chapters is to place on record all the matter I c...
List Of Bibliographical References : p. xvii LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AB GWILYM: "Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym", edited by Cyndelw (Liverpool, 1873), 206, 233, 439, 444) 671. ADAMNAN: "The Life of St. Columba", written by Adamnan, edited by William Reeves (Dublin, 1857), 545. AGRIPPA: H. Cornelius "Agrippa De Occult...
