British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
CHAPTER V.
Baleful Spirits of Storm--The Shower at the Magic Fountain--Obstacles in the way of Treasure-Seekers--The Red Lady of Paviland--The Fall of Coychurch Tower--Thunder and Lightning evoked by Digging--The Treasure-Chest under Moel Arthur in the Vale of Clwyd--Modern Credulity--The Cavern of the Ravens--The Eagle-guarded Coffer of Castell Coch--Sleeping Warriors as Treasure-Guarders--The Dragon which St. Samson drove out of Wales--Dragons in the Mabinogion--Whence came the Red Dragon of Wales?--The Original Dragon of Mythology--Prototypes of the Welsh Caverns and Treasure-Hills--The Goblins of Electricity.
I.
In the prominent part played by storm--torrents of rain, blinding lightning, deafening thunder--in legends of disturbed cromlechs, and other awful stones, is involved the ancient belief that these elements were themselves baleful spirits, which could be evoked by certain acts. They were in the service of fiends and fairies, and came at their bidding to avenge the intrusion of venturesome mortals, daring to meddle with sacred things. This fascinating superstition is preserved in numberless Welsh legends relating to hidden treasures, buried under cromlechs or rocky mounds, or in caverns. In the 'Mabinogion' it appears in the enchanted barrier to the Castle of the Lady of the Fountain. Under a certain tall tree in the midst of a wide valley there was a fountain, 'and by the side of the fountain a marble slab, and on the marble slab a silver bowl, attached by a chain of silver, so that it may not be carried away. Take the bowl and throw a bowlful of water on the slab,' says the black giant of the wood to Sir Kai, 'and thou wilt hear a mighty peal of thunder, so that thou wilt think that heaven and earth are trembling with its fury. With the thunder there will come a shower so severe that it will be scarce possible for thee to endure it and live. And the shower will be of hailstones; and after the shower the weather will become fair, but every leaf that was upon the tree will have been carried away by the shower.'[183] Of course the knight dares this awful obstacle, throws the bowlful of water upon the slab, receives the terrible storm upon his shield, and fights the knight who owned the fountain, on his coming forth. Sir Kai is worsted, and returns home to Arthur's court; whereupon Sir Owain takes up the contest. He sallies forth, evokes the storm, encounters the black knight, slays him, and becomes master of all that was his--his castle, his lands, his wife, and all his treasures.
The peasant of to-day who sets out in quest of hidden treasures evokes the avenging storm in like manner. Sometimes the treasure is in the ground, under a cromlech or a carn; he digs, and the thunder shakes the air, the lightnings flash, torrents descend, and he is frustrated in his search. Again, the treasure is in a cavern, guarded by a dragon, which belches forth fire upon him and scorches his eyeballs. Welsh folk-lore is full of legends of this character; and the curious way in which science and religion sometimes get mixed up with these superstitions is most suggestive--as in the cases of the falling of Coychurch tower, and the Red Lady of Paviland. The latter is the name given a skeleton found by Dr. Buckland in his exploration of the Paviland caves, the bones of which were stained by red oxide of iron. The vulgar belief is that the Red Lady was entombed in the cave by a storm while seeking treasure there--a legend the truth of which no one can dispute with authority, since the bones are certainly of a period contemporary with the Roman rule in this island. Coins of Constantine were found in the same earth, cemented with fragments of charcoal and bone ornaments. In the case of Coychurch tower, it undoubtedly fell because it was undermined by a contractor who had the job of removing certain defunct forefathers from their graves near its base. Some eighteen hundred skulls were taken from the ground and carted off to a hole on the east side of the church. But the country folk pooh-pooh the idea that the tower fell for any reason other than sheer indignation and horror at the disturbance of this hallowed ground by utilitarian pickaxe and spade. They call your attention to the fact that not only did the venerable tower come crashing down, after having stood for centuries erect, but that in falling it struck to the earth St. Crallo's cross--an upright stone in the churchyard as venerable as itself--breaking it all to pieces.
FOOTNOTE:
[183] 'Mabinogion,' 8.
II.
A hollow in the road near Caerau, in Cardiganshire, 'rings when any wheeled vehicle goes over it.' Early in this century, two men having been led to believe that there were treasures hidden there (for a fairy in the semblance of a gipsy had appeared and thrown out hints on the fascinating subject from time to time), made up their minds to dig for it. They dug accordingly until they came, by their solemn statement, to the oaken frame of a subterranean doorway; and feeling sure now, that they had serious work before them, prepared for the same by going to dinner. They had no sooner gone than a terrible storm arose; the rain fell in torrents, the thunder pealed and the lightning flashed. When they went back to their work, the hole they had digged was closed up; and nothing would convince them that this was done by any other than a supernatural agency. Moreover, but a little above the place where they were, there had been no rain at all.[184]
FOOTNOTE:
[184] 'Arch. Camb.' 3rd Se., ix., 306.
III.
There is a current belief among the peasants about Moel Arthur--a mountain overlooking the Vale of Clwyd--that treasure, concealed in an iron chest with a ring-handle to it, lies buried there. The place of concealment is often illuminated at night by a supernatural light. Several people thereabouts are known to have seen the light, and there are even men who will tell you that bold adventurers have so far succeeded as to grasp the handle of the iron chest, when an outburst of wild tempest wrested it from their hold and struck them senseless. Local tradition points out the place as the residence of an ancient prince, and as a spot charmed against the spade of the antiquary. 'Whoever digs there,' said an old woman in Welsh to some men going home from their work on this spot, after a drenching wet day, 'is always driven away by thunder and lightning and storm; you have been served like everybody else who has made the attempt.'
IV.
So prevalent are superstitions of this class even in the present day that cases get into the newspapers now and then. The 'Herald Cymraeg' of September 25, 1874, gave an account of some excavations made at Pant-y-Saer cromlech, Anglesea, by the instigation of John Jones of Llandudno, 'a brother of Isaac Jones, the present tenant of Pant-y-Saer,' at the time on a visit to the latter. The immediately exciting cause of the digging was a dream in which the dreamer was told that there was a pot of treasure buried within the cromlech's precincts. The result was the revelation of a large number of human bones, among them five lower jaws with the teeth sound; but no crochan aur (pitcher of gold) turned up, and the digging was abandoned in disgust. Is it credible that between this account and the following yawns the gulf of seven hundred years? Thus Giraldus: In the province of Kemeys, one of the seven cantrefs of Pembrokeshire, 'during the reign of King Henry I., a rich man who had a residence on the northern side of the Preseleu mountains was warned for three successive nights by dreams that if he put his hand under a stone which hung over the spring of a neighbouring well called the Fountain of St. Bernacus, he should find there a golden chain; obeying the admonition, on the third day he received from a viper a deadly wound in his finger; but as it appears that many treasures have been discovered through dreams, it seems to me probable that some ought and some ought not to be believed.'[185]
FOOTNOTE:
[185] Sir R. C. Hoare's Giraldus, 'Itin. Camb.' ii., 37.
V.
In a certain cavern in Glamorganshire, called the Ogof Cigfrain, or Cavern of the Ravens, is said to be a chest of gold, watched over by two birds of gloomy plumage, in a darkness so profound that nothing can be seen but the fire of their sleepless eyes. To go there with the purpose of disturbing them is to bring on a heaving and rolling of the ground, accompanied by thunder and lightning. A swaggering drover from Brecknockshire, though warned by a 'dark woman' that he had better not try it, sneered that 'a couple of ravens were a fine matter to be afraid of indeed!' and ventured into the cavern, with a long rope about his waist, and a lantern in his hand. Some men who accompanied him (seeing that he was bent on this rash and dangerous emprise,) held the coil of rope, and paid it out as he went further and further in. The result was prompt and simple: the sky cracked with loud bursts of thunder and flashes of lightning, and the drover roared with affright and rushed out of the dark cavern with his hair on end. No coaxing ever prevailed on him to reveal the terrible sights he had seen; when questioned he would only repeat in Welsh the advice of 'Punch' to those about to marry, viz., 'Peidiwch!'
VI.
In the legend of Castell Coch, instead of a raven it is a pair of huge eagles which watch the treasure. Castell Coch is an easy and pleasant two hours' walk from Cardiff Castle, with which it is vulgarly believed to be connected by a subterranean passage. A short time ago--well, to be precise, a hundred years ago, but that is no time at all in the history of Castell Coch, which was a crumbling ruin then as it is now[186]--in or about the year 1780, a reduced lady was allowed to fit up three or four rooms in the ruin as a residence, and to live there with two old servants of her house. One night this lady was awakened from her sleep to receive the visit of a venerable ghost in a full dress-suit of an earlier century, who distressed her by his troubled countenance and vexed her by his eccentric behaviour, for when she spoke to him from the depths of her nightcap he at once got through the wall. He came on subsequent nights so often, and frightened the servants so much by the noise he made--in getting through the wall, of course--that the lady gave up her strange abode, and was glad to pay house rent ever after in other parts. This old ghost was in the flesh proprietor of the castle, it appears, and during the civil wars buried an iron chest full of gold in the subterranean passage--which is still there, guarded by two large eagles. A party of gentlemen who somewhere about 1800 attempted to explore the passage saw the eagles, and were attacked by the birds of freedom so fiercely that they retreated in disorder. Subsequently they returned with pistols and shot the eagles, which resented this trifling impertinence by tearing the treasure-seekers in a shocking manner. After having recovered from their wounds, the determined Welshmen renewed the attack--this time with silver bullets, which they had got blessed by a good-natured priest. The bullets rattled harmlessly on the feathers of the terrible birds; the ground shook under foot; rain descended in torrents; with their great wings the eagles beat out the gold-hunters' torches, and they barely escaped with their lives.
FOOTNOTE:
[186] It is at present being entirely restored and made habitable by its owner, Lord Bute.
VII.
The shadowy Horror which keeps vigil over these hidden treasures is now a dragon, again a raven or an eagle, again a worm. In the account of the treasure-seeker of Nantyglyn, it is a winged creature of unknown nature, a 'mysterious incubus,' which broods over the chest in the cave. The terrible Crocodile of the Lake, which was drawn from its watery hiding-place by the Ychain Banog, or Prominent Oxen of Hu Gadarn, is also sometimes called a dragon (draig) in those local accounts which survive in the folk-lore of several different districts. It infested the region round about the lake where it lay concealed, and the mighty oxen so strained themselves in the labour of drawing it forth that one of them died and the other rent the mountain in twain with his bellowing. Various legends of Sleeping Warriors appear in Welsh folk-lore, in which the dragon is displaced by a shadowy army of slumbering heroes, lying about in a circle, with their swords and shields by their sides, guarding great heaps of gold and silver. Now they are Owen Lawgoch and his men, who lie in their enchanted sleep in a cavern on the northern side of Mynydd Mawr, in Carmarthenshire; again they are Arthur and his warriors, asleep in a secret ogof under Craig-y-Ddinas, waiting for a day when the Briton and the Saxon shall go to war, when the noise of the struggle will awaken them, and they will reconquer the island, reduce London to dust, and re-establish their king at Caerleon, in Monmouthshire.
Dragon or demon, raven or serpent, eagle or sleeping warriors, the guardian of the underground vaults in Wales where treasures lie is a personification of the baleful influences which reside in caverns, graves, and subterraneous regions generally. It is something more than this, when traced back to its source in the primeval mythology; the dragon which watched the golden apples of Hesperides, and the Payshtha-more, or great worm, which in Ireland guards the riches of O'Rourke, is the same malarious creature which St. Samson drove out of Wales. According to the monkish legend, this pestiferous beast was of vast size, and by its deadly breath had destroyed two districts. It lay hid in a cave, near the river. Thither went St. Samson, accompanied only by a boy, and tied a linen girdle about the creature's neck, and drew it out and threw it headlong from a certain high eminence into the sea.[187] This dreadful dragon became mild and gentle when addressed by the saint; did not lift up its terrible wings, nor gnash its teeth, nor put out its tongue to emit its fiery breath, but suffered itself to be led to the sea and hurled therein.[188] In the 'Mabinogion,' the dragon which fights in Lludd's dominion is mentioned as a plague, whose shriek sounded on every May eve over every hearth in Britain; and it 'went through people's hearts, and so scared them, that the men lost their hue and their strength, and the women their children, and the young men and maidens lost their senses.'[189] 'Whence came the _red_ dragon of Cadwaladr?' asks the learned Thomas Stephens.[190] 'Why was the Welsh dragon in the fables of Merddin, Nennius, and Geoffrey, described as _red_, while the Saxon dragon was _white_?' The question may remain long unanswered, for the reason that there is no answer outside the domain of fancy, and therefore no reason which could in our day be accepted as reasonable.[191] The Welsh word 'dragon' means equally a dragon and a leader in war. Red was the most honourable colour of military garments among the British in Arthur's day; and Arthur wore a dragon on his helmet, according to tradition.
His haughty helmet, horrid all with gold, Both glorious brightness and great terror bred, For all the crest a dragon did enfold With greedy paws.[192]
But the original dragon was an embodiment of mythological ideas as old as mankind, and older than any written record. The mysterious beast of the boy Taliesin's song, in the marvellous legend of Gwion Bach, is a dragon worthy to be classed with the gigantic conceptions of the primeval imagination, which sought by these prodigious figures to explain all the phenomena of nature. 'A noxious creature from the rampart of Satanas,' sings Taliesin; with jaws as wide as mountains; in the hair of its two paws there is the load of nine hundred waggons, and in the nape of its neck three springs arise, through which sea-roughs swim.[193]
FOOTNOTES:
[187] 'Liber Landavensis,' 301.
[188] Ibid., 347.
[189] 'Mabinogion,' 461.
[190] 'Literature of the Kymry,' 25.
[191] Mr. Conway, in his erudite chapter on the Basilisk, appears to think that the red colour of the Welsh dragon, in the legend of Merlin and Vortigern, determines its moral character; that it illustrates the evil principle in the struggle between right and wrong, or light and darkness, as black does in the Persian legends of fighting serpents.--'Demonology and Devil-Lore,' p. 369. (London, Chatto and Windus, 1879.)
[192] Spenser, 'Faerie Queene.'
[193] 'Mabinogion,' 484.
VIII.
For the prototype of the dragon-haunted caves and treasure-hills of Wales, we must look to the lightning caverns of old Aryan fable, into which no man might gaze and live, and which were in fact the attempted explanation of thunderstorms, when the clouds appeared torn asunder by the lightning.
Scholars have noted the impressive fact that the ancient Aryan people had the same name for cloud and mountain; in the Old Norse, 'klakkr' means both cloud and rock, and indeed the English word cloud has been identified with the Anglo-Saxon 'clud,' rock.[194] Equally significant here is the fact that in the Welsh language 'draig' means both lightning and dragon.
Primeval man, ignorant that the cloud was in any way different in structure from the solid mountains whose peaks it emulated in appearance, started back aghast and trembling when with crashing thunders the celestial rocks opened, displaying for an instant the glowing cavern whose splendour haunted his dreams. From this phenomenon, whose goblins modern science has tamed and taught to run errands along a wire, came a host of glittering legends, the shining hammer of Thor, the lightning spear of Odin, the enchanted arrow of Prince Ahmed, and the forked trident of Poseidon, as well as the fire-darting dragons of our modern folk-lore.
FOOTNOTE:
[194] Max Mueller, 'Rig-Veda,' i. 44. And see Mr. Baring-Gould's 'Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,' etc.
INDEX
A.
Aberdovey, the Bells of, 339, 344
Aderyn y Corph, the, 212
All Fools' Day, 274
All Hallows, 280
Alluring Stone, the, 367
American Ghost Stories, 139, 185
Angels, Apparitions of, 208
Animals' Terrors at Goblins, 171
Annwn, the World of Shadows, 7, 34
Antic Spirits, 180
Aphrodite, the Welsh, 350
Apple Gift, the, 253
Arian y Rhaw, 333
Arthur, the Mythic and the Historic, vii.
Arthur's Dog, 363 " Pot, 369 " Quoits, 370 " Round Table, 369 " Seat, Bed, Castle, Stone, etc., 369
Ascension Day, Curious Superstition concerning, 25
Aura, the Human, its Perception by Dogs, 172
Avagddu, 219
Avalon, 8
B.
Ball-playing in Churchyards, 272
Bangu, the, 340
Banshee, the, 212 " " in America, 247
Banwan Bryddin, the Stone of, 374
Barnwell, Rev. E. L., cited, 324
Baron's Gate, Legend of the, 127
Barry Island, Mysterious Noises on, 353
Basilisks in Mines, 27
Beer-drinking at Funerals, 322
Bells, Superstitions concerning, 339 " of Aberdovey, 339, 344 " " St. Cadoc, 339 " " Rhayader, Legend of the, 341 " " St. Illtyd, 342 " " St. Oudoceus, 343
Beltane Fires, 278
Bendith y Mamau, 12
Betty Griffith and the Fairies, 115
Birds of Rhiannon, the, 91
Blabbing, Penalty of, 119
Black Book of Carmarthen, the, 350 " Maiden of Caerleon, the, 219 " Man of Ffynon yr Yspryd, 178 " Men in the Mabinogion, 178
Blue Petticoat, Old Elves of the, 132
Bogie, the, 32
Boxing-day, 295
Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, 91
Bread and Cheese in Fairy Mythology, 44
Brownie, the, 186
Bundling, or Courting Abed, 300
Buns, 267
Burial Customs, 321
Bush of Heaven, Legend of the, 73
Bute, the Marquis of, cited, 136
Bwbach, the, 30 " and the Preacher, the, 30
C.
Cadogan's Ghost, 149
Cadwaladr's Goat, the Legend of, 54
Cae Caled, the Dwarfs of, 28
Cae Mawr, the Mowing of, 61
Caerau, the Woman of, 239
Caerphilly, the Green Lady of, 132
Calan Ebrill, 274
Can y Tylwyth Teg, the, 99
Canna's Stone, 362
Canrig Bwt, the Legend of, 368
Canwyll Corph, the, 238
Caradoc the Bloody, 348
Caridwen's Caldron, 88
Carols, 288
Carrying the Kings, 276 " Cynog, 279 " Mortals through the Air, 157, 163
Castell Coch, the Eagles of, 390 " Correg, 380
Catrin Gwyn, the Legend of, 144
Catti Shon, the Witch of Pencader, 77
Cavern of Ravens, the, 389
Ceffyl Pren, the, 319
Chained Spirit, the, 168
Chaining at Weddings, 313
Changelings, 56
Cheese in Welsh Fairy Tales, 44
Christmas Observances, 286
Classification of Fairies, 11 " " Ghosts, 141 " " Customs, 252
Coblynau, 24
Cock-crow, Fairy Dislike of, 112 " a Death Omen when Untimely, 213
Colliers' Star, the, 294
Colour in Fairy Costume, 131
Compacts with the Diawl, 202
Conway, Mr., cited, 393
Coolstrin, the, 317
Corpse, an Insulted, 146 " Bird, the, 212 " Candle, the, 238
Courting Abed, 300
Courtship and Marriage, 298
Craig y Ddinas, a Fairy Haunt, 6
Criminals' Graves, Superstitions concerning, 331
Crocodile of the Lake, the, 392
Cromlechs, Superstitions concerning, 379 " Legendary Names of, 381
Cross-roads, Stones at, 368
Crown of Porcelain, the, 269
Crumlyn Lake, Legend of, 35
Curiosity Tales, 86
Cursing Wells, 355
Customs, Superstitious and Traditional, 250
Cutty Wren, the, 257
Cwm Llan, the Shepherds of, 121
Cwm Pwca, Breconshire, 20
Cwn Annwn, 233
Cwn y Wybr, 233
Cyhyraeth, the, 219 " of St. Mellons, the, 221 " " the Sea-coast, the, 221
D.
Dancing Stones of Stackpool, the, 375
Dancing in Churchyards, 273 " with Fairies, 70
Death Portents, 212
Devil, when Invented, 210 " as a Familiar Spirit, 197 " exorcising the, 199 " in his Customary Form, 202 " measured for a Suit of Clothes, 202 " his Stupidity, 202 " as a Bridge-builder, 206 " at Tintern Abbey, 207 " and the Foul Pipe, a Legend, 204
Devil's Bridge, Legends of the, 205 " Nags, the, 170 " Pulpit, the, 207 " Stone at Llanarth, the, 378
Dewi Dal and the Fairies, 61
Didactic Purpose in Welsh Fairy Tales, 44 " " " Spirits, 145
Dissenters, Fairy Antipathy to, 6
Divination, 302
Dog of Darkness, the, 168
Dogs of the Fairies, 234 " " Hell, 233 " " the Sky, 233 " Fetichistic Notions of, 172 " Ghosts of, 167
Dracae, 47
Dragons, 391
Dreams of Flying, 164
Druidic Fires, 278
Druids, Fairies Hiding, 129
Duffryn House, the Ghost of, 143
Duty-compelled Ghosts, 146
Dwarfs, 27
Dwynwen, the Welsh Venus, 299, 350
Dyfed, the Ancient, 5
E.
Early Inscribed Stones, Superstitions concerning, 373
Easter Customs, 269
Egg-shell Pottage, Story of the, 60
Eisteddfodau, 293
Eithin Hedges, a Protection against Fairies, 115
Elf Queen, the, 14
Elfin Dames, 34 " Cow, the, 36
Elidurus, the Tale of, 65
Ellylldan, the, 18
Ellyllon, 12
Elves, 13
Enchanted Harp, the, 94
Epimenides, 89
Equestrian Fairies, 107 " Ghosts, 174
Eumenides, 12
Euphemisms, 12, 114, 209
Excalibur, 53
Exorcism of Changelings, 57 " " Devils, 199 " " Fairies, 112, 116 " " Ghosts, 165 " " Child-stealing Elves, 62
Expanding Stone, the, 365
F.
Fair Folk, 12
Fairies, existing belief in, 2 " King of the, 6 " Welsh names of, 12 " at Market, 9 " of the Mines, 24 " of the Lakes, 34 " of the Mountains, 49 " Dancing with, 70 " of Frennifawr, Legend of the, 82 " on Horseback, 107 " the Red, 127 " hiding Druids, 129 " why in Wales, 132 " their Origin, 127 " Bad Spirits, 134 " on familiar terms with Ghosts, 157 " of the Cromlechs, 380
Fairy Land, 5 " Queen, 14 " Islands, 8, 45 " Food, 13 " Gloves, 13 " Coal-mining, 27 " Father, the, 45 " a, captured by a Welshwoman, 78 " Song, 99 " Rings, 103 " Conversations, 106 " Battle, a, 107 " Animals, 108 " Sheepfold, the, 109 " Gifts, 119 " Tales, debris of Ancient Mythology, 135
Falling of Coychurch Tower, 386
Familiar Spirits, 187 " " in Female Form, 191
Family Ghosts, 142
Fatal Draught, the, 83
Fetches, 215
Fetichism, 338
Fetichistic Notions of Lower Animals, 171
Ffarwel Ned Pugh, 99
Ffynon yr Yspryd, 178
Ffynon Canna, 362
Fiend Master, Legend of the, 86
Fire-damp Goblins, 27
Fires, Mysterious, 213
First Foot on New Year's Day, 254
First Night of Winter, 280
Flowering Sunday, 266
Food at Funerals, 322
Forest of the Yew, Legend of the, 73
Foul Pipe, Story of the, 204
Fountain of Venus, the, 350
Fountains Flowing with Milk, 356
Fourth of July, 278
Frennifawr, the Fairies of, 82
Friday, its Bad Reputation, 268
Frugal Meal, Legend of the, 58
Funeral Customs, 321 " the Goblin, 231
Future Life, the Question of a, 247
Fuwch Gyfeiliorn, the, 36
G.
Gallery under the Sea, 10
Gast Rhymhi, the Legend of, 381
Ghosts, Existing Belief in, 137 " in America, 139 " Classification of, 141 " with a Duty to Perform, 146 " of Ebbw Vale, 142 " on Horseback, 154, 174 " Exorcising, 165 " of Animals, 167 " Grotesque, 174 " Gigantic, 176 " their Origin, 247 " of Bells, 339 " Stories of-- The Weaver's Ghost, 147 Cadogan's Ghost, 149 The Ghost of Ystradgynlais, 157 The Admiral's Ghost, 143 The Miser's Ghost, 152 The Ghost of St. Donat's, 143 The Pont Cwnca Bach Ghost, 144 The Ghost of Noe, 147 Anne Dewy's Ghost, 153 The Clifford Castle Ghost, 155 The Ghost of Ty'n-y-Twr, 155 The Ghost of the Silver Spurs, 156 The Tridoll Valley Sprite, 181 The Mynyddyslwyn Sprite, 187
Giants, 370
Giants' Dance, the, 371
Gigantic Ghosts, 176
Giraldus Cambrensis, 65
Gitto Bach, the Legend of, 119
Gnomes, 24
Goats, Strange Beliefs concerning, 53
Gobelin, the French, 32
Goblin Animals, 167 " Funerals, 231
God's Name as an Exorcism, 112 " " in the Bardic Traditions, 209
Good Friday Customs, 266
Good Old Times, the, 252
Grassless Grave, Legend of the, 331
Green Lady of Caerphilly, the, 132 " Meadows of the Sea, 8
Groaning Spirits, 222
Grotesque Ghosts, 174
Guest, Lady Charlotte, 5
Guy Fawkes Day Customs, 284
Gwahoddwr, the, 307
Gwenfrewi, Legend of, 347
Gwerddonau Llion, 8
Gwion Bach (Taliesin), 88, 394
Gwrach y Rhibyn, the, 216
Gwragedd Annwn, the, 34
Gwraig of the Golden Boat, the, 41
Gwydion, the Wizard Monarch, 5
Gwyllgi, the, 168
Gwyllion, 49
Gwyn ap Nudd, 6, 372
H.
Hafod Lwyddog, Legend of, 124
Hallow E'en Customs, 280
Hares, Mythological Details, 162
Harp Music among Welsh Fairies, 94
Haunted Bridge, the, 144 " Castles and Houses, 143 " Margaret, 165
Headless Horse, the, 216
Hecate, 49
Hermes, 236
Hidden Treasures and Perturbed Ghosts, 151 " " Dragon-Guarded, 386
Hobgoblin, 32
Holy Thursday, Superstition concerning, 25, 268
Horse-Weddings, 310
Hot-cross Buns, 267
Household Fairy, the, 31
Howell Dda, 298
I.
Iago ap Dewi's Seven Years' Absence, 88
Ianto Llewellyn and the Fairies, 123
Idris the Giant, 370
Incubus, 193
Inscribed Stones, Superstitious Dread of, 373
Iolo ap Hugh, the Legend of, 99
Islands, the Enchanted, 8
J.
Jack-muh-Lantern, 18
Jennet Francis and the Fairy Child-Stealers, 62
John the Red Nose, 258
Jones, the Prophet, 104
Juan White, the Spirit of, 50
K.
Knife, Exorcism by the, 52
Knockers in Mines, 24
Kobolds, 29
L.
Lady of the Fountain, 178, 385 " " Wood, Legend of the, 193
Lake Fairies, 34
Lang, A., cited, 197
Language of the Fairies, 106
Lapse of Time under Enchantment, 89
Laws of the Welsh Spirit-World, 148
Leek, Wearing of the, 260
Lenten Customs, 266
Levitation of Mortals, 157, 163
Levy Dew, 255
Lies, the Tump of, 273
Lifting at Easter, 269
Lightning Caverns, 394
Linen, its Ancient Value, 133
Listening at the Church Door, 214
Lisworney-Crossways, the Legend of, 169
Living with Fairies, 65
Llandaff Gwrach y Rhibyn, the, 217
Llechlafar Stone, 364
Lledrith, the, 215
Llwyd the Magician, 159, 190
Llwyn y Nef, the Bush of Heaven, 72
Llyn Barfog, the Fairy Maiden of, 36 " y Dywarchen, the Lady of, 44 " y Fan Fach, the Sirens of, 38 " Glas, the Shepherd of, 124 " y Morwynion, the Maidens' Lake, 47
Logan Stones, Superstitions concerning, 378
Lord and Beggar, Legend of the, 230
Love Charms, 302
Lucky Days, 268
Lukis, J. W., cited, 3, 380
Luther and the Changeling, 57
M.
Mab, 14
Mabinogion, the, 5, 14, 91
Magic Carpet, 164 " Harp, 95
Maidens' Lake, the, 47
Maid's Trick, the, 302
Making Christ's Bed, 267
Mallt y Nos, the, 215
Marget yr Yspryd, 165
Mari Lwyd, the, 256
Marketing on Tombstones, 280
Marriage Customs, 306
May-day Customs, 274
Meddygon Myddfai, Legend of the, 38
Melerius, the Legend of, 192
Melusina, the Welsh, 381
Memorials of Arthur, 369
Men of Ardudwy, the Legend of the, 47
Merlin the Enchanter, as a Stone Remover, 371 " " " and the Red Dragon, 393 " an Early Myth, viii.
Mermaids, 35, 47
Merthyr, the Rector of, cited, 3
Methodists, Banishers of Fairies, 6
Mid-Lent Sunday, 266
Midsummer Eve, 277
Milford Haven, the Fairies at, 9
Milk from Fountains, 356
Milk-white Milch Cow, Legend of the, 37
Mine Goblins, 24
Miner's Wraith, the, 215
Mirage, 173
Moel Arthur, the Treasure-Chest of, 388
Moelfre Hill, the Women of, 376
Mol Walbec the Giantess, 370
Monacella's Lambs, 162
Money thrown in Wells, 354
Morgan, Born of the Sea, 47
Morgana, 7
Mothering Sunday, 266
Mountain Ash, the Three Rods of, 210 " the Old Woman of the, 49
Mourning in Lent, 266
Music in Welsh Fairy Tales, 91, 98
Myfyr Morganwg, 277
Mystic Wells, 345
N.
Nadolig, 286
Names of Welsh Fairies, 12
Nant yr Ellyllon, 79
Narberth in Mythic Story, 198, 234
New Year's Day Customs, 252
Night Fiend, the, 215
Nights for Spirits, the Three, 280
Nis, the, 186
Noises, Mysterious, on Barry Island, 353
North Wales, Fairyland in, 5
Nos Calan Gauaf, 280
O.
Oaks, Superstitions concerning, 105
Odin's Spear, 395
Offrwm, the, 332
Old Woman of the Mountain, 49 " " " Torrent, 216
Origins of Fairies, 127 " " the Devil, 210 " " Death Omens, 245 " " Customs, 251 " " Spirits, 247 " " Mystic Well Superstitions, 359 " " Superstitions regarding Stones, 383 " " Dragons, 395
Owen Lawgoch and his Enchanted Men, 392
Owl's Screech a Death Omen, 213
P.
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Pant Shon Shenkin, the Legend of, 75
Pant-y-Madoc, the Gwyllgi of, 170
Pant-y-Saer, the Treasure-Hunter of, 389
Parc-y-Bigwrn, the Cromlech of, 382
Parson's Penny, 332
Pebble-Tossers, Gigantic, 370
Pembrokeshire a Land of Mystery, 10
Peredur, the Legend of, 202, 366
Phantom Horseman, the, 174 " Ships and Islands, 173
Pigmies, 24
Pins in Enchantment, 354
Place of Strife, the Legend of the, 59
Plant Annwn, 34
Planting Weeds on Graves, 298 " Flowers on Graves, 299, 336
Plentyn-newid, the, 56
Plygain, the, 294
Poetico-Religious Theory of Fairies' Origin, 134
Polly Williams and the Fairies, 81
Polyphemus, the Welsh, 179, 202
Pontypridd, Druidic Ceremonies at, 277
Preacher and Bwbach, the, 30
Prolific Woman, Legend of the, 133
Pronunciation of Welsh Words, Preface
Propitiation of Goblins, 12, 114
Psyche, 86
Puck, the Welsh, 20
Puzzling Jug, the, 283
Pwca'r Trwyn, Account of, 187 " " chastises a Servant Girl, 22 " " travels in a Jug, 118 " " a Proscribed Noble, 128 " " was it a Fairy, 190
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, 234
Q.
Quintain, the, 284, 313
Quoits, Arthur's, 370
R.
Ravens, Cave of the, 389
Realistic Theory of Fairies' Origin, 129
Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch), 5 " Fairies, the, 127 " Lady of Paviland, the, 386
Rhamanta, 302
Rhitta Gawr, the Giant, 372
Rhys and Llewellyn, the Story of, 70
Rice at Weddings, 314
Richard the Tailor, 160
Rip Van Winkle, the Original of, 89
Robber's Stone, the, 376
Rocking Stone, Superstitions concerning, 378
Rowli Pugh and the Ellyll, 15
S.
Sabbath-breakers Turned to Stone, 376
Sacred Wells, 345
Sagranus Stone, the, 375
Sailors' Superstitions, 9
St. Barruc's Well, 352
St. Ceyna, the Legend of, 377
St. Clement's Day, 284
St. Collen, the Legend of, 7
St. Cynfran's Well, 351
St. Cynhafal's Well, 351
St. David the Introducer of Death Portents into Wales, 245 " his Day, 259 " his Legendary Character, 260
St. Dogmell's Parish, 69, 273
St. Dwynwen's Well, 350
St. Elian's Well, 355
St. George's Well, 351
St. Gwenfrewi, the Legend of, 347
St. Gwynwy's Well, 353
St. Illtyd's Well, 357
St. John's Eve, 277
St. Mary's Well, 346
St. Melangell's Lambs, 162
St. Patrick and the Elfin Dames, 35 " a Welshman, 264 " his Day, 264
St. Samson and the Dragon, 392
St. Tegla's Well, 329, 349
St. Tydecho's Blue Stone, 367
St. Ulric's Day, 279
St. Valentine's Day, 259
St. Winifred's Well, 346
Salt at Funerals, 328
Sanford's Well, 358
Scapegoat, the, 329
Science, the Marvels of, 248
Seeing the Sun Dance, 273
Serpents Turned to Stones, 377
Seven Whistlers, the, 213
Sgilti Yscawndroed, the Lightfooted, 164
Shakspeare, his use of Welsh Folk-Lore, 14, 44 " his Visit to Wales, 20
Shepherds of Cwm Llan, the Legends of the, 121
Shoe-throwing, 314
Shon ap Shenkin, the Story of, 92
Showmen's Superstitions, 255
Shrove Tuesday, 265
Shui Rees and the Fairies, 67
Sin-eater, the, 324
Sion Cent the Magician, 203
Skulls, 145
Sleeping Saints, the, 73 " Heroes, Legends of, 162, 392
Snake Stone, the, 278
Soul, its Future Destiny, 249
Souls of Dogs, 167
Sowling, 258
Spade Money, 333
Spectral Animals, 167
Spirit Fountain, the, 178 " Life, the Question of a, 249 " Nights, the Three, 280 " World, Laws Governing the Welsh, 148
Spirits' Antics, 180
Spiritual Hunting Dogs, 235
Spiritualism, 139
Spitting at the Name of the Devil, 209
Stanley, Hon. W. O., cited, 19, 115
Stone-throwing Spirits, 180, 185
Stone-tossing Giants, 370
Stone-worship, 361
Stone of Invisibility, the, 365 " " Remembrance, the, 366 " " Golden Gifts, the, 366
Stones, Curious Superstitions concerning, 361 " at Cross-roads, 368 " of Healing, 367
Storms, Baleful Spirits of, 385
Stripping the Carpenter, 284
Suicides, Superstitions concerning, 146, 331
Sul Coffa, 335
Summoning Spirits, 199
Supernatural, What is the, 248
Superstition, its Degree of Prevalence, 138, 251 " in the United States, 139, 252
Sweethearts' Charms, 302
T.
Taff's Well, 358
Taffy ap Sion, the Shoemaker's Son, Legend of, 75
Tailor Magician of Glanbran, the, 200
Taliesin, the Tale of, 88 " his Dragon, 394
Talking Stone, the, 364
Tan-wedd, the, 213
Teetotallers, Fairy Antipathy to, 6
Teir-nos Ysprydnos, 280
Terrors of the Brute, Creation at Apparitions, 171
Teulu, the, 231
Thief-catching Stone, the, 366
Thigh Stone, the, 363
Thomas, Rev. Dr., cited, 300
Thor's Hammer, 395
Three Blows, the Story of the, 40 " Losses by Disappearance, the, 9 " Nights for Spirits, the, 280
Throwing at Cocks, 265
Thunder and Lightning as a Death Omen, 213
Toads and Warts, 352
Tolaeth, the, 225
Tolling the Bell, 340
Tooling, 258
Toriad y Dydd, 125
Transformation of Human Beings to Animals, 167, 381 " " " Stone, 374, 376
Transportation through the Air, 157, 163
Trichrug, the Giant of, 371
Tricking the Diawl, 203
Tridoll Valley Ghost, the, 181
Tudur of Llangollen, the Story of, 79
Tump of Lies, the, 273
Twelfth Night Customs, 256
Tylwyth Teg, the, 12
U.
Unknowable, the, 138
Unlucky Days, 268
V.
Vale of Neath, the, its Goblin Fame, 6
Vavasor Powell and the Devil, 198
Veil, the Goblin, 232
Venus, the Welsh, 299 " " her Well, 350
Villemarque cited, 58
W.
Walking Barefoot to Church, 266
Walking-stones, 363
Warts, 351, 367
Water Maidens, 47 " Worship, 359
Wedding Customs, 306
Wells, Mystic, 345
Wesley's Belief in Apparitions, 141
Whistlers, the, 213
Whistling Goblin, the, 178
White as a Fairy Colour, 132 " Catti of the Grove Cave, 144
Whitening Doorsteps to Keep off the Devil, 207
Wife of Supernatural Race, 38
Wild Huntsman, 235
Will-o'-Wisp, 20
Witches Sleeping under Stones, 368
Wonder Stone of Banwan Bryddin, the, 374
Wraiths, 215
Y.
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Yellow Spot before Death, the, 216
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_Gower (Lord Ronald)._ _Handbook to the Art Galleries, Public and Private, of Belgium and Holland._ 18mo, cloth, 5_s._
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_Habitations of Man in all Ages._ _See_ LE-DUC.
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Transcriber's Note
Minor punctuation errors have been repaired.
Hyphenation and accent usage has been made consistent throughout. Capitalisation of items in the Table of contents and chapter headers has been made consistent.
On page 181, following an account of the damage caused by spirits is the line "This pleasant experience was often repeated." The word 'pleasant' may be an error on the part of the author or typesetter, and 'unpleasant' was actually intended, or it may be deliberate on the part of the author. Since it is impossible to be sure, it is preserved as printed.
The following amendments have been made, addressing typographic errors or inconsistency:
Page xi--Llwellyn amended to Llewellyn--"... Ianto Llewellyn and the Tylwyth Teg ..."
Page 17--reducable amended to reducible--"... all household tales are reducible to a primeval root ..."
Page 45--hurrry amended to hurry--"... in her hurry to remount, ..."
Page 49--Llanhyddel amended to Llanhiddel--"... the guise in which she haunted Llanhiddel Mountain ..."
Page 75--acccustomed amended to accustomed--"... the barren mountain he was accustomed to."
Page 106--Mammau amended to Mamau--"... Ni chytunant hwy mwy na Bendith eu Mamau, ..."
Page 117--Dolgelly amended to Dolgelley--"But first consulting a wise woman at Dolgelley, ..."
Page 117--gods amended to goods (based on reference to same further up the same page)--"He was flitting with the household goods, ..."
Page 125--Mammau amended to Mamau--"... as Bendith y Mamau was poured down ..."
Page 135--hape amended to have--"... may desire to know why these fairies have appeared ..."
Page 137--Shakespeare amended to Shakspeare--"SHAKSPEARE: _Tempest_."
Page 176--Lantarnam amended to Llantarnam--"... who lived in the parish of Llantarnam."
Page 241--Landavenis amended to Landavensis--"In the 'Liber Landavensis' it is mentioned ..."
Page 275--Llud amended to Lludd--"... the daughter of Lludd Llaw Ereint."
Page 276--VIII amended to VII--"VII. In the remote and primitive parish ..."
Page 314--IV amended to III--"III. Among the wealthier classes ..."
Page 317--V amended to IV--"IV. A custom called the Coolstrin ..."
Page 338--Faery amended to Faerie--"SPENSER: _Faerie Queene_."
Page 343--Taf amended to Taff--"When they came to the banks of the river Taff, ..."
Page 358--well amended to Well--"Taff's Well, in Glamorganshire, ..."
Page 399--Gwin amended to Gwyn--"Catrin Gwyn, the Legend of, 144"
Page 400--Wybyr amended to Wybr--"Cwn y Wybr, 233"
Page 404--Howel amended to Howell--"Howell Dda, 298"
Page 408--Dyved amended to Dyfed--"Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, 234"
The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page. Other illustrations have been moved where necessary so that they are not in the middle of a paragraph.