ILyn Barfog

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Itwould be unpardonable to pass away from Merioneth without alluding to the stray cow of ILyn Barfog (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Itwould be unpardonable to pass away from Merioneth without alluding to the stray cow of ILyn Barfog."

• comparison: paper is the legend connected with ILyn Barfog, which he renders into English as the Bearded Lake ^ (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "paper is the legend connected with ILyn Barfog, which he renders into English as the Bearded Lake ^."

• attestation: A shrewd old hill farmer (Thomas Abergraes by name), well skilled in the folk-lore of the district, informed me that, in years gone by, though when, exactly, he was too young to remember, those dames (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "A shrewd old hill farmer (Thomas Abergraes by name), well skilled in the folk-lore of the district, informed me that, in years gone by, though when, exactly, he was too young to remember, those dames were wont to make their appearance, arrayed in green, in the neighbourhood of ILyn Barfog, chiefly at eventide, accompanied by their kine and hounds, and that on quiet summer nights in particular, these ban-hounds were often to be heard in full cry pursuing their prey — the souls of doomed men dying without baptism and penance — along the upland township of Cefnrhosucha."

• attestation: The old farmer looked upon the preparations in self-pleased importance^the butcher felt he was about no common feat of his craft, and, baring his arms, he struck the blow— not now fatal, for before ev (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "The old farmer looked upon the preparations in self-pleased importance^the butcher felt he was about no common feat of his craft, and, baring his arms, he struck the blow— not now fatal, for before even a hair had been injured, his arm was paralysed — the knife dropped from his hand, and the whole company was electrified by a piercing cry that awakened echo in a dozen hills, and made the welkin ring again; and lo and behold! the whole assemblage saw a female figure clad in green, with uplifted arms, standing on one of the craigs overhanging ILyn Barfog, and heard her calling with a voice loud as thunder: —"

• attestation: And no sooner were these words of power uttered than the original lake cow and all her progeny, to the third and fourth generations, were in full flight towards the heights of ILyn Barfog, as if pursu (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "And no sooner were these words of power uttered than the original lake cow and all her progeny, to the third and fourth generations, were in full flight towards the heights of ILyn Barfog, as if pursued by the evil one."

• attestation: Pughe did a very good thing in saving this legend from oblivion, but it would be very interesting to know how much of it is still current among the inhabitants of the retired district around ILyn Barf (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Pughe did a very good thing in saving this legend from oblivion, but it would be very interesting to know how much of it is still current among the inhabitants of the retired district around ILyn Barfog, and how the story would look when stripped of the florid language in which Mr."

• attestation: With this qualification the belief may be said to have lingered lately in Wales, for instance, in connexion with ILyn Barfog, near Aberdovey (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "With this qualification the belief may be said to have lingered lately in Wales, for instance, in connexion with ILyn Barfog, near Aberdovey."