Welsh Folk Lore

Crickets
It is lucky to have crickets in a house, and to kill ...

The Blind Worm Or Slow Worm
This reptile is a snake, varying from twelve to eight...

The Conjuror's Dress
Conjurors, when engaged in their uncanny work, usuall...

A Conjuror's Collusion Exposed
This man's house consisted of but few rooms. Between t...

Fairies In Markets And Fairs
It was once firmly believed by the Welsh that the Fai...

The Goose
Should a goose lay a soft egg, a small egg, or two eg...

Rhaffau'r Tylwyth Teg Or The Ropes Of The Fairies
Professor Rhys, in his Welsh Fairy Tales--Y Cymmrodor...

Charms
The cure of diseases by charms is generally supposed ...

Ceridwen And Gwion_ (_gwiawn_) _bach's Transformation
But a striking instance of rapid transition from one ...

Corwrion Changeling Legend
Once on a time, in the fourteenth century, the wife o...

Category: FAIRY TRICKS WITH MORTALS.

A Man Carried Through The Air By The Fairies
One Edward Jones, or 'Ned the Jockey,' as he was familiarly called, resided, within the memory of the writer, in one of the roadside cottages a short distance from Llanidloes, on the Newtown road. While returning home late one evenin...

The Elf Dancers Of Cae Caled
Dr. Edward Williams, under the year 1757, writes as follows:-- I am now going to relate a circumstance in this young period of my life which probably will excite an alternate smile and thoughtful reflection, as it has often done i...

Fairy Tricks With Mortals
It was formerly believed in Wales that the Fairies, for a little fun, sportively carried men in mid air from place to place, and, having conveyed them to a strange neighbourhood, left them to return to their homes as best they could...