ILyn y Fan Fach

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: 'The widow had an only son to bring up, but Providence smiled upon her, and despite her forlorn condition, her live stock had so increased in course of time, that she could not well depasture them upo (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "'The widow had an only son to bring up, but Providence smiled upon her, and despite her forlorn condition, her live stock had so increased in course of time, that she could not well depasture them upon her farm, so she sent a portion of her cattle to graze on the adjoining Black Mountain, and their most favourite place was near the small lake called ILyn y Fan Fach, on the north-western side of the Carmarthenshire Fans."

• attestation: The Sawde has its source in ILyn y Fan Fach, which is nearly two miles distant from Blaensawde House (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "The Sawde has its source in ILyn y Fan Fach, which is nearly two miles distant from Blaensawde House.'"

• attestation: of mine: ' On the first Sunday in the month of August, ILyn y Fan Fach is supposed to be boiling {berwi) (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "of mine: ' On the first Sunday in the month of August, ILyn y Fan Fach is supposed to be boiling {berwi)."

• comparison: Before dismissing the story of ILyn y Fan Fach I wish to append a similar one from the parish of Ystrad Dyfodwg in Glamorganshire (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Before dismissing the story of ILyn y Fan Fach I wish to append a similar one from the parish of Ystrad Dyfodwg in Glamorganshire."

• attestation: Evans' version of this legend and that of ILyn y Fan Fach, tends to add emphasis to certain points which I had been inclined to treat as merely accidental (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Evans' version of this legend and that of ILyn y Fan Fach, tends to add emphasis to certain points which I had been inclined to treat as merely accidental."

• attestation: ' It has been the yearly custom (for generations, as far as I can find) for young as well as many people further advanced in years to make a general e (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "' It has been the yearly custom (for generations, as far as I can find) for young as well as many people further advanced in years to make a general excursion in carts, gambos, and all kinds of vehicles, to ILyn y Fan, in order to see the water nymph (who appeared on one day only, viz. the first Sunday in August)."

• attribution: One of the most complete and best known of these lake stories is that of ILyn y Fan Fach in the Beacons of Carmarthenshire, called in Welsh Bannau Sir Goer (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "One of the most complete and best known of these lake stories is that of ILyn y Fan Fach in the Beacons of Carmarthenshire, called in Welsh Bannau Sir Goer."