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Belene

So one morning what was their astonishment, when they got up, to see grazing quietly in the field six black cows and a white-headed bull, which had come up out of the lake as stock for them from old g

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So one morning what was their astonishment, when they got up, to see grazing quietly in the field six black cows and a white-headed bull, which had come up out of the lake as stock for them from old g (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

Of course in the lapse of years the conditions are accidentally violated by the luckless husband, and the wife flies instantly away into the waters of the pool: her name turned out to be Belene (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: So one morning what was their astonishment, when they got up, to see grazing quietly in the field six black cows and a white-headed bull, which had come up out of the lake as stock for them from old g (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

    "So one morning what was their astonishment, when they got up, to see grazing quietly in the field six black cows and a white-headed bull, which had come up out of the lake as stock for them from old grannie Belene?"

  • attestation: Of course in the lapse of years the conditions are accidentally violated by the luckless husband, and the wife flies instantly away into the waters of the pool: her name turned out to be Belene (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

    "Of course in the lapse of years the conditions are accidentally violated by the luckless husband, and the wife flies instantly away into the waters of the pool: her name turned out to be Belene."

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