Bendith

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: There was considerable danger that one might be taken to Bendith eu Mamau (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "There was considerable danger that one might be taken to Bendith eu Mamau."

• attestation: especially at night. There was considerable danger that one might be taken to Bendith eu Mamau. It is said that there are a great many of them there (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "especially at night. There was considerable danger that one might be taken to Bendith eu Mamau. It is said that there are a great many of them there"

• attestation: with the excuse of asking for alms, having a large darkgrey old cloak on her back, and the cloak concealed one of the children of Bendith eu Mamau (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "with the excuse of asking for alms, having a large darkgrey old cloak on her back, and the cloak concealed one of the children of Bendith eu Mamau."

• relationship: and the cloak concealed one of the children of Bendith eu Mamau (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "and the cloak concealed one of the children of Bendith eu Mamau. Whenever she found the little child of the good woman of the house in its cradle"

• attestation: Yn cerded rhwng pedwar o'r ' Bendith ' yr oed ei phlentyn bychan anwyl ei hun (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Yn cerded rhwng pedwar o'r ' Bendith ' yr oed ei phlentyn bychan anwyl ei hun."

• attestation: When she had laid her business before him and he had examined her, he addressed the following remark to her: " It is a criiiibil^, and thy own child is with those old Bendith somewhere or other: if th (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "When she had laid her business before him and he had examined her, he addressed the following remark to her: " It is a criiiibil^, and thy own child is with those old Bendith somewhere or other: if thou wilt follow my directions faithfully and minutely thy child will be restored to thee soon."

• attestation: Ere long it was identified as close at hand, and she perceived that it was a procession of Bendith y (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Ere long it was close at hand, and she perceived that it was a procession of Bendith y"

• attestation: They were hundreds in point of number, and about the middle of the procession she beheld a sight that pierced her heart and made the blood stop in her veins — walking between four of the Bendith she s (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "They were hundreds in point of number, and about the middle of the procession she beheld a sight that pierced her heart and made the blood stop in her veins — walking between four of the Bendith she saw her own dear little child."

• attestation: and about the middle of the procession she beheld a sight that pierced her heart and made the blood stop in her veins — walking between four of the Bendith she saw her own dear little child (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "and about the middle of the procession she beheld a sight that pierced her heart and made the blood stop in her veins — walking between four of the Bendith she saw her own dear little child. She nearly forgot herself altogether"