Bala

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: It appears that thenceforth she was able to see the fairies with that eye; at any rate she is represented some time afterwards recognizing the father of the fairy baby at a fair at Bala, and inquiring (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "It appears that thenceforth she was able to see the fairies with that eye; at any rate she is represented some time afterwards recognizing the father of the fairy baby at a fair at Bala, and inquiring of him kindly about his family."

• attribution: It is called Y Bala ^ and the man told me that he had talked with an old Bala man who had, when he was a youth, had two days' mowing of hay ^ between the road and the lake; but by this time the lake h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "It is called Y Bala ^ and the man told me that he had talked with an old Bala man who had, when he was a youth, had two days' mowing of hay ^ between the road and the lake; but by this time the lake had spread over that land and the road also, which necessitated the purchase of land further away for the road; and some say that the town will yet sink as far as the place called ILanfor — others call it ILanfawd, " Drown-church," or ILanfawr, "Great-church," in Penttyn...."

• attestation: Bala aeth, a'r Bala aiff, Bala old the lake has had, and Bala new (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Y Bala aeth, a'r Bala aiff, Bala old the lake has had, and Bala new"

• attestation: This probably implies that old Bala is beneath the lake, and that the present Bala is to meet the like fate at some time to come (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "This probably implies that old Bala is beneath the lake, and that the present Bala is to meet the like fate at some time to come."

• attestation: In regard to the earlier half of the line, concerning Bala gone, the story of Ffynnon Gywer might be said to explain it, but there is another which is later and far better known (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "In regard to the earlier half of the line, concerning Bala gone, the story of Ffynnon Gywer might be said to explain it, but there is another which is later and far better known."

• attestation: When the surface of that water, he says, is covered with broken ice, and a south-westerly wind is blowing, the mass of fragments is driven towards the north-eastern end near the town of Bala; and he h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "When the surface of that water, he says, is covered with broken ice, and a south-westerly wind is blowing, the mass of fragments is driven towards the north-eastern end near the town of Bala; and he has obser'ed that the friction produces a somewhat metallic noise which a quick imagination may convert into something hke a distant ringing of bells."

• attestation: This, however, will not explain the Bala legend, which fixes the time for the third generation) namely, immediately after the birth of the offending prince's first grandson (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "This, however, will not explain the Bala legend, which fixes the time for the third generation) namely, immediately after the birth of the offending prince's first grandson."

• attestation: The inundation which then invades the valley from Bala down presents a sight more magnificent than comfortable to contemplate (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "The inundation which then invades the valley from Bala down presents a sight more magnificent than comfortable to contemplate."