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The text can be read here:- Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis




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'The Two Cat Witches' by William Elliot Griffis

In old days . it was believed that the seventh son, in a family of sons, was a conjurer by nature. That is, he could work wonders like the fairies and excel the doctors in curing diseases. - Read More Here (page 15)
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William Elliot Griffis Author of 'Welsh Fairy Tales'

From the Wikipedia: William Elliot Griffis -"William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. Griffis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader. During the American Civil War, he served three months in the 44th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment after Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. After the war, he attended Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating in 1869. At Rutgers, Griffis was an English and Latin language tutor for Tarō Kusakabe, a young samurai from the province of Echizen (part of modern Fukui). After a year of travel in Europe, he studied at the seminary of the Reformed Church in America in New Brunswick (known today as the New Brunswick Theological Seminary)."
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Read the text here:- British goblins: Welsh folk lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions By Wirt Sikes


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'British Goblins: Welsh Folkore...'  by Wirt Sikes

"In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe."  Wirt Sikes Read More Here
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Wirt Sikes Author of 'British Goblins'

From the Wikipedia: Wirt Sikes -"William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures. At the age of nineteen, on August 28, 1855, he married Jeannette Annie Wilcox (1837-1889); they had two children, George Preston Sikes (1856-1957) and Clara Jeanette Sikes (1858-1956). In June 1876 Sikes was appointed U.S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. Over the next few years Sikes produced a number of pieces on Welsh folklore, mythology, and customs, collected as British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions (1880) and Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales (1881). He also wrote Studies of Assassination (1881). He died in Cardiff in 1883 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey.
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Comment by Jenny Brown on August 9, 2013 at 11:10pm

Thought I would contribute a picture I made (very unskillfully but it's the best I can do... I don't know how to use the Painter program really...) of a wintery fae I met several years ago by accident (if you believe in those?). 
For those who might care - He is about 7 ft tall if I were to guess but I'm not much for measurement.  Anyway I come up to about his mid chest and I'm 5'5".  No wings.  Definitely not the stereotypical wee folk or flower fairy.  First noticed him hanging around a while after my dad died (dad died when I was 12, so when I was around 13-14); he would come around when I had trouble sleeping and I would talk to him laying in my bed until I fell asleep (I wasn't afraid of ghosts or spirits at that age cuz I had seen dad's ghost already by then and didn't find anything particularly unusual about this for some reason).  
Saw his face clearly for the first time at 16 (he was a blurry white image or just a sense of presence before that).  It took me several years to realize he was even fae (after finally getting around to discovering the existence of Irish/Scottish fairy lore around age 22/23... and much later the Welsh).  For a long time I thought he was maybe a guardian angel or a friendly ghost or something cuz he's so white and helped me go to sleep when I would wake up from nightmares or had insomnia, and like I said I saw ghosts when I was a kid and also the way he looks and eyes sort of glow in the dark which is kind of cool.  Anyway eventually figured out he was option c) - none of the above, and that he was a fae, which he had to actually tell me.  This happened after several years of figuring out how to communicate with him and confirmed after finally learning the basics of how to pathwalk (first astral visit to Otherworld = age 25, 3+ yrs ago, probably wouldn't have had the guts to try it if he weren't right there saying he would help and bring me to where he was on the other side).
We are now good friends.    He's pretty reserved and serious (not typical fae mischievous? but he does have a very sarcastic sense of humor) but he is nice.  Which is lucky I guess cuz they certainly aren't all nice.  But anyhoo that's who's in the picture. 
I would close with "long live the fair folk" but they already do so I guess it's not necessary, lol! 
Comment by Bill Tillman on March 23, 2013 at 12:04pm
Patti,
Great images very inspiring.
Bill
Comment by Patti Annelle Patten on March 23, 2013 at 11:07am
You are welcome!  No, the pictures are not from the Welsh Fairy Book--but I am looking for Welsh related fairy pics!  I am part Fae--you know   Well, I like to think I am.
Comment by Brian y Tarw Llwyd on March 22, 2013 at 11:55am
Ah!  Great stuff, Patti!  Thanks for adding some life to the group.  
Comment by Ceri Shaw on March 22, 2013 at 11:44am
Diolch for posting Patti....great pics...are they from the Welsh Fairy Book?
Comment by Patti Annelle Patten on March 22, 2013 at 8:54am
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
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Read the text here:- The Fairy-Faith In Celtic Countries


The Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries




B ut the purely social environment under which the Fairy-Faith of Wales survives is a potent force which promises to preserve underneath the surface of Welsh national life, where the commercialism of the age has compelled it to retire in a state of temporary latency, the ancestral idealism of the ancient Brythonic race. Read the book here



From the Wikipedia, Evans-Wentz :- "He was born as Walter Yeeling Wentz in Trenton, New Jersey in 1878. His father was a real estate businessman, of German descent, while his mother was Irish. He also had two brothers and two sisters. Though initially a Bapist, his father had turned to spiritualism and Theosophy. As a teenager he read Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine at his father's library and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy and Occult. Subsequently, at the turn of century, he moved to San Diego in California, and joined his father's profession, but also because it was close to Lomaland, the American headquarters for the Theosophical Society, which he joined in 1901.
Evans-Wentz joined the Stanford University at the age of 24. Here he studied religion, philosophy and history and was deeply influenced by visitors William James and W. B. Yeats. He went on to receive B.A. and M.A degrees. He then studied Celtic mythology and folklore at Jesus College, Oxford (1907). He travelled across Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man collecting stories about pixies, fairies, and goblins, and published his thesis about Fairy Faith as a book, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic countries in 1911. At Oxford, he also added his mother's Welsh surname Evans to his name, being known henceforth as Evans-Wentz.


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