Tegid

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Tegid had now the charge of the family, and he conducted himself in all things as behoved a man and a gentleman of high principles and great generosity (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Tegid had now the charge of the family, and he conducted himself in all things as behoved a man and a gentleman of high principles and great generosity."

• attestation: About this time there was great consternation among the fishermen on account of a sea-serpent that twined itself about the rocks near the caves, and nothing would do but that Tegid and his brothers sh (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "About this time there was great consternation among the fishermen on account of a sea-serpent that twined itself about the rocks near the caves, and nothing would do but that Tegid and his brothers should go forth to kill it; but when one day they came near the spot frequented by it, they heard a deep voice saying to them, " Do not kill ypur sister," so they wondered greatly and suddenly went home."

• attribution: But that night Tegid returned there alone, and called his sister by her name, and after waiting a long while she crept towards him in the shape of a seaserpent, and said that she must remain some time (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "But that night Tegid returned there alone, and called his sister by her name, and after waiting a long while she crept towards him in the shape of a seaserpent, and said that she must remain some time in that form on account of her having run away with one who was not her husband; she went on to say that she had seen their sisters walking with their mother, and their father would soon be in the cave."

• attestation: Tegid ran away for his life, but not before a monster more terrible tha (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Tegid ran away for his life, but not before a monster more terrible than"

• attestation: It haunted him in all kinds of ways: sometimes it would be like a sea, but Tegid was able to swim: sometimes it would be a mountain of ice, but Tegid was able to climb it: and sometimes it was like a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "It haunted him in all kinds of ways: sometimes it would be like a sea, but Tegid was able to swim: sometimes it would be a mountain of ice, but Tegid was able to climb it: and sometimes it was like a furnace of intense fire, but the heat had no effect on him."