Evans

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Evans was unable to call to mind, but equally with the other two it showed that the lady was possessed of preternatural knowledge; and it resulted in her leaving her husband and returning into the lak (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Evans was unable to call to mind, but equally with the other two it showed that the lady was possessed of preternatural knowledge; and it resulted in her leaving her husband and returning into the lake, taking the cattle, &c., with her."

• attestation: Evans told me that Dyffryn Safrwch was considered to be a corruption of Dyffryn Safn yr Hwch, "Valley of the Sow's Mouth"; so that the explanation was not due to a minister with whom I foregathered on (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Evans told me that Dyffryn Safrwch was considered to be a corruption of Dyffryn Safn yr Hwch, "Valley of the Sow's Mouth"; so that the explanation was not due to a minister with whom I foregathered on my tramp near the lake the other day, and from whom I heard it first.'"

• attestation: Evans comes near enough to the authentic form written El/arch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Evans comes near enough to the authentic form written El/arch."

• attestation: Evans' version ascribes supernatural knowledge to the fairy, though his version fails to support it; and her moralizings read considerably later than those which the Fan legend ascribes to the fairy w (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Evans' version ascribes supernatural knowledge to the fairy, though his version fails to support it; and her moralizings read considerably later than those which the Fan legend ascribes to the fairy wife."

• attribution: Evans was in the habit of impressing on her servant girls' minds, that, unless they made the house tidy before going to bed, and put everything in its place overnight, the hltle people — the fairies, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Evans was in the habit of impressing on her servant girls' minds, that, unless they made the house tidy before going to bed, and put everything in its place overnight, the hltle people — the fairies, she thinks she called them —would leave them no rest in bed at night, but would come and ' pinch them like.'"

• attestation: Evans was then alive and well, and took a keen interest in Welsh antiquities and folklore (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans was then alive and well, and took a keen interest in Welsh antiquities and folklore."

• attestation: Evans by an old woman of seventy, who, on being questioned by Mrs (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans by an old woman of seventy, who, on being questioned by Mrs."

• attestation: Evans concerning the history of the well, informed her that the rags used to be tied to the bushes by means of wool (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans concerning the history of the well, informed her that the rags used to be tied to the bushes by means of wool."

• attestation: Evans noticed corks, with pins stuck in them, floating in the well, and her informant remembered many more in years gone by; for Elian's Well was once in great repute as 2^ ffynnon reibio, or a well t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans noticed corks, with pins stuck in them, floating in the well, and her informant remembered many more in years gone by; for Elian's Well was once in great repute as 2^ ffynnon reibio, or a well to which people resorted for the kindly purpose of bewitching those whom they hated."

• attestation: Evans was told of the rags, that Elian's Well was visited, not only by the malicious, but also by the sick and suffering (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans was told of the rags, that Elian's Well was visited, not only by the malicious, but also by the sick and suffering."

• attestation: Evans visited the spot, or whether she was only told of them by the caretaker (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Evans visited the spot, or whether she was only told of them by the caretaker."

• attestation: Evans remembers his mother repeating it; but now it is made into Kmh i>eunBrtfi brmtk, with the mutations disregarded (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Evans remembers his mother repeating it; but now it is made into Kmh i>eunBrtfi brmtk, with the mutations disregarded."

• attestation: Evans' story differs, as it has been seen, from my aunt's version in giving the soul the shape of a lizard; but the little black fellow in the one and the black lizard in the other agree not only in r (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Evans' story differs, as it has been seen, from my aunt's version in giving the soul the shape of a lizard; but the little black fellow in the one and the black lizard in the other agree not only in representing the soul as material, but also as forming a complete organism within a larger one."