Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
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WELSH FAIRY-TALES
AND
OTHER STORIES.
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY P. H. EMERSON.
TO
LEONARD, SYBIL, GLADYS, AND ZOE.
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during
the winter 1891-2.
With the exception of the French story, they were told me and I took
them down at the time.
Particulars respecting the narratives will be found in the Notes.
In most cases I have done but little "editing", preferring to give
the stories as told.
The old book referred to in the Notes I bought from a country
bookseller, who knew neither its author, title, or date, but I have
since been informed the book is Williams' _Observations on the
Snowdon Mountains_, published in 1802, a book well known to
students of Celtic literature.
P. H. E.
CLARINGBOLD, BROADSTAIRS. _April 1894_.
CONTENTS.
THE FAIRIES OF CARAGONAN Welsh
THE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITH Welsh
OLD GWILYM Welsh
THE BABY-FARMER Welsh
THE OLD MAN AND THE FAIRIES Welsh
TOMMY PRITCHARD Welsh
KADDY'S LUCK Welsh
THE STORY OF GELERT Welsh
ORIGIN OF THE WELSH Welsh
THE CROWS Welsh
ROBERTS AND THE FAIRIES Welsh
THE FAIRY OF THE DELL Welsh
ELLEN'S LUCK Welsh
THE FAIRIES' MINT Welsh
THE PELLINGS Welsh
THE LONG-LIVED ANCESTORS Welsh
THE GIANTESS'S APRON-FULL Welsh
A FABLE Welsh
THE STORY OF THE PIG-TROUGH Irish
BILLY DUFFY AND THE DEVIL Irish
JOHN O' GROATS Scotch
EVA'S LUCK Jersey
THE FISHERMEN OF SHETLAND Shetland
THE PASTOR'S NURSE French
NOTES
THE FAIRIES OF CARAGONAN.
Once upon a time a lot of fairies lived in Mona.
One day the queen fairy's daughter, who was now fifteen years of
age, told her mother she wished to go out and see the world.
The queen consented, allowing her to go for a day, and to change
from a fairy to a bird, or from a bird to a fairy, as she wished.
When she returned one night she said:
"I've been to a gentleman's house, and as I stood listening, I heard
the gentleman was witched: he was very ill, and crying out with
pain."
"Oh, I must look into that," said the queen.
So the next day she went through her process and found that he was
bewitched by an old witch. So the following day she set out with six
other fairies, and when they came to the gentleman's house she found
he was very ill.
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