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Wirt Sikes
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July 21 - August 24, 2024
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and son of the last native prince of Wales. They lived about 1230, and dying, left behind them a compendium of their medical practice. ‘A copy of their works is in ...
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VII.
didactic
futurity,
VIII.
In all these legends the student of comparative folk-lore traces the ancient mythology, however overlain with later details.
The water-maidens of every land doubtless originally were the floating clouds of the sky, or...
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with which Indo-European folk...
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Ardudwy.
Vale of Clwyd,
Cynwal
traitress
IX.
As the mermaid superstition is seemingly absent in Wales, so there are no fairy tales of maidens who lure mortals to their doom beneath the water, as the
D...
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Nymph of the...
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did marriageable y...
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But it is believed that there are several old Welsh families who are ...
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as in the cas...
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Meddygon M...
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The familiar Welsh name of Morgan is sometimes thought to signify, ‘Born of the Sea.’ Certainly môr in Welsh means sea, and gân a birth. It is c...
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In Wales, where the mountain lakes are numerous, gloomy, lonely, and yet lovely; where many of them, too, show traces of having been inhabited in ancient times by a race of lake-dwellers, whose pile-supported villages vanished ages ago; and where bread and cheese are as classic as beer and candles, these particulars are localized in the legend.
Faro Islands,
I.
Gwyllion
are female fairies of frightful characteristics, who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains, and...
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who rode on the storm, and was a hag of...
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The Welsh word gwyll is variously used to signify gloom, shade, duskiness, a hag, a witch, a fairy, and a goblin; but its special appli...
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gloomy and harmful habits, as distinct from the Ellyllon of the forest glades and dingles, whic...
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the Old Woman of the Mountain typifies all her kind.
Llanhiddel Mountain
This was the semblance of a poor old woman, with an oblong four-cornered hat, ash-coloured clothes, her apron thrown across her shoulder, with a pot or wooden can in her hand, such as poor people carry to fetch milk with, always going before the spectator, and sometimes crying
‘Wwb!’ or ‘Ww-bwb!’ [32]
Those who saw this apparition, whether by night or on a misty day, would be sure to lose their way, though they might be perfectly familiar with the road. Sometimes they heard her cry, ‘Wow up!’ when they did not see her.
dwellers near that mountain would hear the cry very close to them, and immediately after they would hear it afar off, as i...
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Welsh ghosts and fairies are afraid of a knife.
Cwm Celyn,
Caerleon
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Gilfach
