Hughes

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Hughes' Curse of Pantannas (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Preface)

  "Mr. J. C. Hughes' Curse of Pantannas"

• attribution: Hughes says that he has lived about thirty-four years within a mile of the pool and farm house called Corwrion, and that he has refreshed his memory of the legend by questioning separately no less tha (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes says that he has lived about thirty-four years within a mile of the pool and farm house called Corwrion, and that he has refreshed his memory of the legend by questioning separately no less than three old people, who had been bred and born at or near that spot."

• attestation: Hughes is a local antiquary of great industry and zeal; and that he published a book on the antiquities of the district, under the title of Hynafiaethau Landegai a LanUechid, that is ' the Antiquities (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes is a local antiquary of great industry and zeal; and that he published a book on the antiquities of the district, under the title of Hynafiaethau Landegai a LanUechid, that is ' the Antiquities of ILandegai and ILanttechid' (Bethesda, 1866); but it is out of print, and I have had some trouble to procure a copy:—"

• relationship: Hughes referred to no less than three other versions, as follows: — (i) According to one account, the husband was ploughing, with the wife leading the team, when by chance he came across her and the a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes referred to no less than three other versions, as follows: — (i) According to one account, the husband was ploughing, with the wife leading the team, when by chance he came across her and the accident happened."

• attestation: Hughes' communications, I would select from them (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes' communications, I would select from them some remarks on the topography of"

• attestation: Hughes remembers hearing it so many years ago (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes remembers hearing it so many years ago."

• attestation: Hughes further gives (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes further gives."

• attribution: Hughes called to make inquiries about the legend, he found there the foundations of several old buildings, and several pieces of old querns about the place (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes called to make inquiries about the legend, he found there the foundations of several old buildings, and several pieces of old querns about the place."

• attestation: Hughes his simple way of catching them when he was a boy, namely, by walking bare-legged in the water: in a few minutes he landed with nine or ten leeches sticking to his legs, some of which fetched a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes his simple way of catching them when he was a boy, namely, by walking bare-legged in the water: in a few minutes he landed with nine or ten leeches sticking to his legs, some of which fetched a shiUing each from the medical men of those days."

• attestation: Hughes describes a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes describes as"

• comparison: Hughes' notes, I must here give his too brief account of another thing connected with Corwrion, though, perhaps, not with the legends here in question (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes' notes, I must here give his too brief account of another thing connected with Corwrion, though, perhaps, not with the legends here in question."

• attestation: Hughes kindly got me a version of the legend from Mr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes kindly got me a version of the legend from Mr."

• attestation: Hughes' account of the Smychiaid was, that they are the descendants of one Simonds, who came to be a baihff at BodysgaHan, near Deganwy, and moved from there to Coetmor in the neighbourhood of Corwrio (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Hughes' account of the Smychiaid was, that they are the descendants of one Simonds, who came to be a baihff at BodysgaHan, near Deganwy, and moved from there to Coetmor in the neighbourhood of Corwrion."

• relationship: The name of their eldest son, my uncle (brother to my mother), was Hugh Hughes, and the second son's name was Richard William (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "The name of their eldest son, my uncle (brother to my mother), was Hugh Hughes, and the second son's name was Richard William."

• attestation: Hughes has sent me, I will briefly put into Enghsh his account of himself and his authorities (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes has sent me, I will briefly put into Enghsh his account of himself and his authorities."

• attestation: Hughes analyses the name, in the year 1773, and she had a vivid recollection of Edmund Jones of the Tranch, of whom more anon, coming from time to time to preach to the Independents there (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes analyses the name, in the year 1773, and she had a vivid recollection of Edmund Jones of the Tranch, of whom more anon, coming from time to time to preach to the Independents there."

• attestation: Hughes' father tried to prevent his children being (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes' father tried to prevent his children being taught any tales about ghosts, corpse"

• attestation: Hughes gives the following note: — It was the residence of Dafyd" Morgan or ' Counsellor Morgan,' who, he says, was (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes gives the following note: — It was the residence of Dafyd" Morgan or ' Counsellor Morgan,' who, he says, was"

• attestation: Hughes vividly describes the effect on his mind when he was a boy, how frightened he used to feel, how he pulled the clothes over his head in bed, and how he half suffocated himself thereby under the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes vividly describes the effect on his mind when he was a boy, how frightened he used to feel, how he pulled the clothes over his head in bed, and how he half suffocated himself thereby under the effects of the fear with which the tales used to fill him."

• attestation: Hughes, ' reciting and singing several of the songs which the fairies sang in these rings (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes, ' reciting and singing several of the songs which the fairies sang in these rings."

• attestation: Hughes' own Welsh, a remarkable story of revenge exacted by the fairies: (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes' own Welsh, a remarkable story of revenge exacted by the fairies: —"

• attestation: Hughes that the first cry issued from the Black Cauldron in the Taflf (oV Gerwyn £>u ar Daf), which I take to be a pool in that river (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes that the first cry issued from the Black Cauldron in the Taflf (oV Gerwyn £>u ar Daf), which I take to be a pool in that river."

• attestation: Hughes tells me: he adds that there was on its side once a chapel with a burial ground (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Hughes tells me: he adds that there was on its side once a chapel with a burial ground."

• attestation: Hughes counted fifteen farmers in his immediate neighbourhood whose average age was eighty-three; and four years previously the average age of eighteen of them was no less than eighty-five (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Hughes counted fifteen farmers in his immediate neighbourhood whose average age was eighty-three; and four years previously the average age of eighteen of them was no less than eighty-five."

• attestation: Hughes says, to see anything (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Hughes says, to see anything."

• attestation: Hughes has seen the fairies himself: it was on the PwttheH road, as he was returning in the grey of the morning from the house of (?, fiancee when he was twenty-seven (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Hughes has seen the fairies himself: it was on the PwttheH road, as he was returning in the grey of the morning from the house of (?, fiancee when he was twenty-seven."

• attestation: Hughes gave me: — 'When St (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Hughes gave me: — 'When St."

• attestation: Hughes , as the result of further inquiry, has given me what he considers a more correct version; but it is no less inconsequen (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Hughes, as the result of further inquiry, has given me what he considers a more correct version; but it is no less inconsequent, as will be seen: —"

• attestation: Hughes are well known in all parts of the Principality, and it is difficult to account for them except on the supposition (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "Hughes are well known in all parts of the Principality, and it is difficult to account for them except on the supposition"

• attestation: Hughes (p. 173) to me, as to the persistence in his neighbourhood oftWrand eldr {(ot claiar, 'lukewarm '), to which one may add, as unlikely to be cha (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Hughes (p. 173) to me, as to the persistence in his neighbourhood oftWrand eldr {(ot claiar, 'lukewarm '), to which one may add, as unlikely to be challenged by anybody, the case of Adfh tor haeam, 'iron.'"