Kittlerumpit

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: ' I see that you are fond of talks about fairies, children; and a story about a fairy and the goodwife of Kittlerumpit has just come into my mind; but I can't very well tell you now whereabouts Kittle (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "' I see that you are fond of talks about fairies, children; and a story about a fairy and the goodwife of Kittlerumpit has just come into my mind; but I can't very well tell you now whereabouts Kittlerumpit lies."

• attestation: But howsoever about Kittlerumpit: the goodman was a rambling sort of body; and he went to a fair one day, and not only never came home again, but nevermore was heard of (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "But howsoever about Kittlerumpit: the goodman was a rambling sort of body; and he went to a fair one day, and not only never came home again, but nevermore was heard of."

• attestation: *Ah well, whpn the goodman of Kittlerumpit was gone, the goodwife was left with small means (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "*Ah well, whpn the goodman of Kittlerumpit was gone, the goodwife was left with small means."

• attestation: The goodwife of Kittlerumpit was a joyful goodwife now, and would have kissed the very hem of the green woman's gowntail; but she wouldn't let her (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "' The goodwife of Kittlerumpit was a joyful goodwife now, and would have kissed the very hem of the green woman's gowntail; but she wouldn't let her."

• attestation: But howsoever about Kittlerumpit: the goodman was identified as a rambling sort of body (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "But howsoever about Kittlerumpit: the goodman was a rambling sort of body"

• attestation: •The goodwife of Kittlerumpit, who now knew her customer, gave a shrill cry like a stuck swine (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "•The goodwife of Kittlerumpit, who now knew her customer, gave a shrill cry like a stuck swine."

• attestation: *Ah well, the goodwife of Kittlerumpit could not sleep any that night for crying, and all the next day the same, cuddling her bairn till she nearly squeezed its breath out; but the second day she thin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "*Ah well, the goodwife of Kittlerumpit could not sleep any that night for crying, and all the next day the same, cuddling her bairn till she nearly squeezed its breath out; but the second day she thinks of taking a walk in the wood I told you of; and so with the bairn in her arms, she sets out, and goes far in among the trees, where was an old quarry-hole, grown over with grass, and a bonny spring well in the middle of it."

• attestation: ' I trow this set up the woman of Kittlerumpit's bristle: for though she had two blear e^'es and a long red nose besides, she thought herself as bonny as the best of them (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "' I trow this set up the woman of Kittlerumpit's bristle: for though she had two blear e^'es and a long red nose besides, she thought herself as bonny as the best of them."

• attestation: •The goodwife of Kittlerumpi (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "•The goodwife of Kittlerumpit"

• attestation: Kittlerumpit could not sleep any that night for crying (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "the goodwife of Kittlerumpit could not sleep any that night for crying"

• attestation: *The goodwife of Kittlerumpit laughed till she was like to split (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "*The goodwife of Kittlerumpit laughed till she was like to split; then she t^es up her bairn, and goes into her house, singing to it all the way: —"