Morgan

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: They asked me once who Morgan was, whom the little boys were always saying they were to be careful against (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "They asked me once who Morgan was, whom the little boys were always saying they were to be careful against."

• attestation: An old man living at Tal ILyn (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "An old man living at Tal ILyn, " Lake's End," a farm close by, says that as a boy he was always told that " naughty boys would be carried off by Morgan into the lake.""

• attestation: Others tell me that Morgan is always held to be ready to take off troublesome children, and somehow Morgan is thought of as a bad one (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Others tell me that Morgan is always held to be ready to take off troublesome children, and somehow Morgan is thought of as a bad one.'"

• attestation: Now as Morgan carries children off into the pool, he would seem to issue from the pool, and to have his home in it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "Now as Morgan carries children off into the pool, he would seem to issue from the pool, and to have his home in it."

• attestation: In other words, Morgan may be said to act in the same way as the mermaid, who takes a sailor down to her submarine home; and it explains to my mind a discussion which I once heard of the name Morgan b (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "In other words, Morgan may be said to act in the same way as the mermaid, who takes a sailor down to her submarine home; and it explains to my mind a discussion which I once heard of the name Morgan by a party of men and women making hay one fine summer's day in the neighbourhood of Ponterwyd, in North Cardiganshire."

• attestation: But I now see clearly that it is to be sought in the indistinct echo of such folklore as that which makes Morgan a terror to children in the neighbourhood of the Glasfryn Lake (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "But I now see clearly that it is to be sought in the indistinct echo of such folklore as that which makes Morgan a terror to children in the neighbourhood of the Glasfryn Lake."

• attribution: It is from the name of the above Morgan that Morgannwg is called (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "' It is from the name of the above Morgan that Morgannwg is called."