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    Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
    Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
    Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
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    Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories

    By P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories - P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson

      Project Gutenberg's Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: P. H. Emerson

      Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8675] This file was first posted on July 31, 2003 Last Updated: May 14, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WELSH FAIRY-TALES AND OTHER ***

      Produced by Delphine Lettau, Charles Franks and the people at DP

      WELSH FAIRY-TALES AND OTHER STORIES

      By Anonymous

      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.

      Going into the room, bearing a small blue pot they had brought with them, the queen asked him:

      Would you like to be cured?

      Oh, bless you; yes, indeed.

      Whereupon the queen put the little blue pot of perfume on the centre of the table, and lit it, when the room was instantly filled with the most delicious odour.

      Whilst the perfume was burning, the six fairies formed in line behind her, and she leading, they walked round the table three times, chanting in chorus:

        "Round and round three times three,

        We have come to cure thee."

      At the end of the third round she touched the burning perfume with her wand, and then touched the gentleman on the head, saying:

      Be thou made whole.

      No sooner had she said the words than he jumped up hale and hearty, and said:

      Oh, dear queen, what shall I do for you? I'll do anything you wish.

      Money I do not wish for, said the queen, but there's a little plot of ground on the sea-cliff I want you to lend me, for I wish to make a ring there, and the grass will die when I make the ring. Then I want you to build three walls round the ring, but leave the sea-side open, so that we may be able to come and go easily.

      With the greatest of pleasure, said the gentleman; and he built the three stone walls at once, at the spot indicated.

      II.

      Near the gentleman lived the old witch, and she had the power of turning at will into a hare. The gentleman was a great hare hunter, but the hounds could never catch this hare; it always disappeared in a mill, running between the wings and jumping in at an open window, though they stationed two men and a dog at the spot, when it immediately turned into the old witch. And the old miller never suspected, for the old woman used to take him a peck of corn to grind a few days before any hunt, telling him she would call for it on the afternoon of the day of the hunt. So that when she arrived she was expected.

      One day she had been taunting the gentleman as he returned from a hunt, that he could never catch the hare, and he struck her with his whip, saying Get away, you witchcraft!

      Whereupon she witched him, and he fell ill, and was cured as we have seen.

      When he got well he watched the old witch, and saw she often visited the house of an old miser who lived near by with his beautiful niece. Now all the people in the village touched their hats most respectfully to this old miser, for they knew he had dealings with the witch, and they were as much afraid of him as of her; but everyone loved the miser's kind and beautiful niece.

      III.

      When the fairies got home the queen told her daughter:

      I have no power over the old witch for twelve months from to-day, and then I have no power over her life. She must lose that by the arm of a man.

      So the next day the daughter was sent out again to see whether she could find a person suited to that

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