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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

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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"