British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and TraditionsWirt Sikes
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
Wirt Sikes
Essays
Book language: English
400 pages
British Goblins is a collection of essays from 1880 on Welsh folklore, fairy beliefs and legends, particularly in South Wales and the border counties. Wirt Sikes records traditions linked to the Arthurian age and folk tales, offering listeners an introduction to Celtic and British lore.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
British Goblins: WELSH FOLK-LORE, FAIRY MYTHOLOGY, LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS. BY WIRT SIKES, UNITED STATES CONSUL FOR WALES. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY T. H. THOMAS. In olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour ... Al was this lond fulfilled of fayrie. Chaucer. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET. 1880. [All rights reserved.] LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. A couple look up at a woman on the hillside THE OLD WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAIN. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, THIS ACCOUNT OF THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE OF HIS PRINCIPALITY IS BY PERMISSION DEDICATED. PREFACE. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales, and still more especially with South Wales—where there appear to have been human dwellers long before North Wales was peopled—it also includes the
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