Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Our modern idioms, with all their straining after the abstract, are but primitive man's mental tools adapted to the requirements of civilized life, and they often retain traces of the form and shape which the neolithic worker's chipping and polishing gave them.
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...
24. CHAPTER VIIt is only recently [158] 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....
15. CHAPTER IThe chief object of this and several of the following chapters is to place on record all the matter I can find on the subject of Welsh lake legends: what I may have to say of th...
18. did. He observed that there was a rook's nest on a tree which wasnot far from this spot, and it struck him that it would be prudent to break the nest before the rooks multiplied. So he climbed the tree and broke the nest, and, after coming do...
16. CHAPTER IIIn 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...
17. chapter iv. As for the kind of service here ascribed to the PennantThe next four stories are to be found in Cymru Fu at pp. 175-9, whence I have taken the liberty of translating them into English. They were contributed by Glasynys, whose name h...
23. i. 136; also Mela's first-century account of the virgins of the islandof Sena, which runs to the following effect:--'Sena, in the Britannic Sea, opposite the coast of the Osismi, is famous for its oracle of a Gaulish god, whose priestesses, living...
20. CHAPTER IVBe 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...
21. i. 11, by Giraldus, as to the archbishop when he was preaching in theneighbourhood of Haverfordwest. A certain woman had lost her sight, but had so much faith in that holy man that she sent her son to try and procure the least bit of the fringe o...
13. CHAPTER XIIGlottology and comparative mythology 640 The question of the feminine in Welsh syntax 642 The Irish goddess Danu and the Welsh Dôn 644 Tynghed or destiny in the Kulhwch story 64...
14. part i, edited, with a literal translation, by P. W. Joyce (Dublin,Mapes: Gualteri Mapes de Nugis Curialium Distinctiones Quinque, edited by Thomas Wright and printed for the Camden Society, 1850 [at the last moment a glance at the original Bod...
22. CHAPTER VThe 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 pertin...
1. VOLUME IOur modern idioms, with all their straining after the abstract, are but primitive man's mental tools adapted to the requirements of civilized life, and they often retain traces...
26. ii. 196, on an allusion to a well which, when uncovered, was about todrown the whole locality but for a miracle performed by St. Patrick to arrest the flow of its waters. A similar story of a well bursting and forming Lough Reagh, in County Galwa...
25. xiii. 496-7, where he compares with tut the Breton teuz, 'lutin,génie malfaisant ou bienfaisant'; and for the successive guesses on the subject of the name Morgan tut one should also consult Zimmer's remarks in Foerster's Introduction to his...
10. CHAPTER IXThe Triad of the Swineherds of the Isle of Prydain 499 The former importance of swine's flesh as food 501 The Triad clause about Coll's straying sow 503 Coll's wanderings arrang...
11. CHAPTER XThe terrors of superstition and magic 557 The folklorist's activity no fostering of superstition 558 Folklore a portion of history 558 The difficulty of separating story and his...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe sea encroaching on the coast of Glamorgan 402 The Kenfig tale of crime and vengeance 403 The Crymlyn story and its touch of fascination 404 Nennius' description of Oper Linn...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe question of classification 456 The fairy cave of the Arennig Fawr 456 The cave of Mynyd y Cnwc 457 Waring's version of Iolo's legend of Craig y Dinas 458 Craigfryn Hughes' M...
12. CHAPTER XIThe soul as a pigmy or a lizard, and the word enaid 607 A different notion in the Mabinogi of Math 608 The belief in the persistence of the body through changes 610 Shape-shifti...
7. CHAPTER VIRag wells in Wales 354 The question of distinguishing between offerings and vehicles of disease 358 Mr. Hartland's decision 359 The author's view revised and illustrated 360 T....
4. CHAPTER IIII. The folklore of Nant Conwy 197 II. Scenes of the Mabinogi of Math 207 III. Celynnog Fawr and Llanaelhaearn 214 IV. The blind man's folklore 219 V. The old saddler's recollect...
6. CHAPTER VLincolnshire parallels 323 The brownie of Blednoch and Bwca'r Trwyn 325 Prognostication parallels from Lincolnshire and Herefordshire 327 The traffic in wind and the Gallizenæ 3...
5. CHAPTER IVThe fenodyree or Manx brownie 286 The sleih beggey or little people 289 The butches or witches and the hare 293 Charmers and their methods 296 Comparisons from the Channel Islan...
3. CHAPTER III. Bedgelert and its environs 75 II. The Pennant Valley 107 III. Glasynys' yarns 109 IV. An apple story 125 V. The Conwy afanc 130 VI. The Berwyn and Aran Fawdwy 135 VII. The hi...
2. CHAPTER II. The legend of Llyn y Fan Fach 2 II. The legend of Llyn y Forwyn 23 III. Some Snowdon lake legends 30 IV. The heir of Ystrad 38 V. Llandegai and Llanllechid 50 VI. Mapes' stor...