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Dalby

A man in Dalby used to find them making a big fire in his kitchen: he would hear the crackling and burning of the fire when nobody else could have been there except the fairies and their friends

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A man in Dalby used to find them making a big fire in his kitchen: he would hear the crackling and burning of the fire when nobody else could have been there except the fairies and their friends (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

He is a native of the parish of Dalby, but he was only ' a lump of a boy ' when the last couple of immorals were forced to do penance in white sheets at church (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

I may here mention that the parish of Dalby is the subject of many tales (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: A man in Dalby used to find them making a big fire in his kitchen: he would hear the crackling and burning of the fire when nobody else could have been there except the fairies and their friends (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "A man in Dalby used to find them making a big fire in his kitchen: he would hear the crackling and burning of the fire when nobody else could have been there except the fairies and their friends."

  • attestation: He is a native of the parish of Dalby, but he was only ' a lump of a boy ' when the last couple of immorals were forced to do penance in white sheets at church (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

    "He is a native of the parish of Dalby, but he was only ' a lump of a boy ' when the last couple of immorals were forced to do penance in white sheets at church."

  • attestation: I may here mention that the parish of Dalby is the subject of many tales (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

    "I may here mention that the parish of Dalby is the subject of many tales, which go to show that its people were more old-fashioned in their ways than those of the rest of the"