Dyffryn Mymbyr
there were still people in his neighbourhood who believed that the fairies stole unbaptized children and placed their own in their stead: he gives the following story about the farmer's wife of Dyffry
there were still people in his neighbourhood who believed that the fairies stole unbaptized children and placed their own in their stead: he gives the following story about the farmer's wife of Dyffry (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: there were still people in his neighbourhood who believed that the fairies stole unbaptized children and placed their own in their stead: he gives the following story about the farmer's wife of Dyffry (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
"there were still people in his neighbourhood who believed that the fairies stole unbaptized children and placed their own in their stead: he gives the following story about the farmer's wife of Dyffryn Mymbyr"
- comparison: The story runs as follows, and should be compared with the Dyffryn Mymbyr one given above, pp (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)
"The story runs as follows, and should be compared with the Dyffryn Mymbyr one given above, pp. 100-3 • — ' One calm hot day, when the sun of heaven was brilliantly shining, and the hay in the dales was being busily made by lads and lasses, and by grown-up people of both sexes, a woman in the neighbourhood of Emlyn placed her one-year-old infant in the gader, or chair, as the cradle is called in these parts, and out she went to the field for a while, intending to return, when her"