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Like Welsh fairies, also, they take possession of the hearth after the farmer and his family are gone to bed

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Like Welsh fairies, also, they take possession of the hearth after the farmer and his family are gone to bed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • comparison: Like the Welsh fairies, they kidnap babies; and I have heard it related how a woman in Dalby had a struggle with the fairies over her baby, which they were trying to drag out of the bed from her (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "Like the Welsh fairies, they kidnap babies; and I have heard it related how a woman in Dalby had a struggle with the fairies over her baby, which they were trying to drag out of the bed from her."

  • attestation: Like Welsh fairies, also, they take possession of the hearth after the farmer and his family are gone to bed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "Like Welsh fairies, also, they take possession of the hearth after the farmer and his family are gone to bed."

  • comparison: Like the Welsh fairies, the Manx ones take men away with them and detain them for years (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "Like the Welsh fairies, the Manx ones take men away with them and detain them for years."

  • comparison: Like Welsh fairies, the Manx ones had, as the reader will have seen, horses to ride; they had also dogs, just as the Welsh ones had (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "Like Welsh fairies, the Manx ones had, as the reader will have seen, horses to ride; they had also dogs, just as the Welsh ones had."

Appears in: Beings, Entities in Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Tradition