Welsh Fairy Tales And Other Stories E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This volume contains 24 tales collected in and around Wales by P. H. Emerson whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were written as they were told to the collector. In most cases he amended them as little as possible, preferring to record the stories as told, staying true to the original, so that the written story would enchant readers as though it were being presented by the storyteller.

Herein you will find stories like

• The Legend Of Gelert,
• The Fairies Of Caragonan,
• The Craig-Y-Don Blacksmith,
• Old Gwilym,
• The Baby-Farmer,
• The Old Man And The Fairies and many more.

Like most pre-1900 societies, storytelling, mythology and history was an oral tradition and passed on in the same way by specialists such as storytellers or druids.

Why do we call such a collection Fairy Tales? Well, when last did you hear a child say ‘One more folk tale please’ or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'? Fairy tales are stories in which occurs something 'fairy', something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. Stories of fairy interaction with humans – where the kind and thoughtful are blessed and the thoughtless and spiteful are punished.

So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial.

10% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the Princes Trust.
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Leseprobe

WELSHFAIRYTALES

&

OTHERSTORIES.

COLLECTED AND EDITED

BY

P. H. EMERSON.

Originally Published By

D. NUTT, LONDON

1894

Resurrected By

ABELA PUBLISHING, LONDON

2017

Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2017

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2017

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

email [email protected]

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the teachers and storytellers

who keep folklore and history alive through the

telling and re-telling of these tales

Philanthropy

A percentage of the net

from the sale of this book

will be donated towards the education

of underprivileged people in Wales.

Acknowledgements

The Publisher acknowledges the

work that P. H. Emerson did

in compiling this collection of

Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories in a time

well before any electronic media was in use.

We also thank those artists who have made

their artwork freely available on the internet.

Art which has made this book decidedly more “Welsh”

in appearance.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891 - 92.

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 FrenchNOTES

THEFAIRIES OFCARAGONAN

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!"