Pennant

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: As for the kind of service here ascribed to the Pennant fairy, I know nothing exactly parallel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "As for the kind of service here ascribed to the Pennant fairy, I know nothing exactly parallel."

• attestation: Ryw diwrnod aeth dau gyfaitt i hela dwfrgvan ar hyd lannau afon Pennant, a thra yn cyfeirio eu camrau tuagat yr afon gwelsant ryw greadur bychan ttiwgoch yn rhedeg yn gyflym iawn ar draws un o'r dolyS (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Ryw diwrnod aeth dau gyfaitt i hela dwfrgvan ar hyd lannau afon Pennant, a thra yn cyfeirio eu camrau tuagat yr afon gwelsant ryw greadur bychan ttiwgoch yn rhedeg yn gyflym iawn ar draws un o'r dolyS yn nghyfeiriad yr afon."

• attestation: ' One day, two friends went to hunt otters on the banks of the Pennant, and when they were directing their steps towards the river, they beheld some small creature of a red colour running fast across (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "' One day, two friends went to hunt otters on the banks of the Pennant, and when they were directing their steps towards the river, they beheld some small creature of a red colour running fast across the meadows in the direction of the river."

• comparison: He related also how a farmer at Pennant had wedded a fairy called Bella (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "He related also how a farmer at Pennant had wedded a fairy called Bella."

• attestation: It is thus described by Pennant, ii (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "It is thus described by Pennant, ii. 339: — * We found, on arriving at the top, an hollow a mile in length, filled with Lyn Lydaw^ a fine lake, winding beneath the rocks, and vastly indented by rocky projections, here and there jutting into it."

• attestation: Pennant's time mining operations^ have been carried on close to the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "But since Pennant's time mining operations^ have been carried on close to the"

• attestation: The only tradition now current about the well is that emptying it used to prove the means of raising a wind or even of producing great storms, and thi (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The only tradition now current about the well is that emptying it used to prove the means of raising a wind or even of producing great storms, and this appears to have been told Pennant: see his Tour in Scotland and Vcyagt to tht Hebrides, MDCCLXXll (Chester, 1774), p. 326: — < Visit the few wonders of the isle: the first is a little well of a most miraculous quality, for in old times, if ever the chieftain lay here windbound, he had nothing more to do than cause the well to be cleared, and instantly a favorable gale arose."