Grassi

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Grassi is supposed in the locality to have been the name of the owner of the well, or at any rate of a lady who had something to do with it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Grassi is supposed in the locality to have been the name of the owner of the well, or at any rate of a lady who had something to do with it."

• attestation: Grassi, or Grace, however, can only be a name which a modern version of the legend has introduced (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Grassi, or Grace, however, can only be a name which a modern version of the legend has introduced."

• attestation: One story is to the effect, that on a certain evening she forgot to close the well, and that when the gushing waters had formed the lake, poor Grassi, overcome with remorse, wandered up and down the h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "One story is to the effect, that on a certain evening she forgot to close the well, and that when the gushing waters had formed the lake, poor Grassi, overcome with remorse, wandered up and down the high ground of Cae'r Ladi, moaning and weeping."

• comparison: Now as to Grassi, she is mostly regarded as a ghostly person somehow connected with the lake and the house of Glasfryn (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Now as to Grassi, she is mostly regarded as a ghostly person somehow connected with the lake and the house of Glasfryn."

• attestation: This story is in process apparently of being rationalized; at any rate the young lady student, to whom I have referred, remembers perfectly that her grandfather used to explain to her and the other ch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "This story is in process apparently of being rationalized; at any rate the young lady student, to whom I have referred, remembers perfectly that her grandfather used to explain to her and the other children at home that Grassi was changed into a swan as a punishment for haunting Glasfryn, but that nevertheless the old lady still visited the place, especially when there happened to be strangers in the house."