Wirt Sikes, American consul at Cardiff, on Welsh folk-lore: the fairy tribes, ghosts, corpse candles and death omens, holy wells and customs.

SUBJECTSWalesFairiesGhostsOmens

CONTENTS · 32

  1. 1BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER I — Fairy Tales and the Ancient Mythology10 MIN
  2. 2BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER II — Classification of Welsh Fairies22 MIN
  3. 3BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER III — Lake Fairies15 MIN
  4. 4BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER IV — Mountain Fairies7 MIN
  5. 5BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER V — Changelings8 MIN
  6. 6BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER VI — Living with the Tylwyth Teg27 MIN
  7. 7BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER VII — Fairy Music12 MIN
  8. 8BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER VIII — Fairy Rings9 MIN
  9. 9BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER IX — Piety as a Protection from the Seductions of the Tylwyth Teg7 MIN
  10. 10BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER X — Fairy Money and Fairy Gifts in General8 MIN
  11. 11BOOK I, THE REALM OF FAERIE — CHAPTER XI — Origins of Welsh Fairies10 MIN
  12. 12BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER I — Modern Superstition regarding Ghosts14 MIN
  13. 13BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER II — Household Ghosts and Hidden Treasures18 MIN
  14. 14BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER III — Spectral Animals7 MIN
  15. 15BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER IV — Grotesque Ghosts15 MIN
  16. 16BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER V — Familiar Spirits17 MIN
  17. 17BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER VI — The Evil Spirit in his customary Form10 MIN
  18. 18BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER VII — Cambrian Death-Portents14 MIN
  19. 19BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER VIII — The Tolaeth Death Portent14 MIN
  20. 20BOOK II, THE SPIRIT-WORLD — CHAPTER IX — The Corpse Candle13 MIN
  21. 21BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER I — Serious Significance of seemingly Trivial Customs16 MIN
  22. 22BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER II — Sundry Lenten Customs11 MIN
  23. 23BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER III — Midsummer Eve9 MIN
  24. 24BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER IV — Nadolig, the Welsh Christmas14 MIN
  25. 25BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER V — Courtship and Marriage8 MIN
  26. 26BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER VI — Wedding Customs15 MIN
  27. 27BOOK III, QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS — CHAPTER VII — Death and Burial18 MIN
  28. 28BOOK IV, BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS — CHAPTER I — Base of the Primeval Mythology7 MIN
  29. 29BOOK IV, BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS — CHAPTER II — Mystic Wells17 MIN
  30. 30BOOK IV, BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS — CHAPTER III — Personal Attributes of Legendary Welsh Stones13 MIN
  31. 31BOOK IV, BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS — CHAPTER IV — Early Inscribed Stones11 MIN
  32. 32BOOK IV, BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS — CHAPTER V — Baleful Spirits of Storm11 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #34704). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.