Thomas

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: That it is an archaic story of the kind in the Thomas of Ercildoune and so many more fairy-tales. (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Funeral Rites And Man'S Future State.)

  "That it is an archaic story of the kind in the Thomas of Ercildoune and so many more fairy-tales, e.g., Kate Crack-a-Nuts, is certain."

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Thomas, however, has heard that the number of the houses making up the town of Corwrion some six or seven centuries ago was about seventy-five; but they were exactly seventy-three according to my next (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Thomas, however, has heard that the number of the houses making up the town of Corwrion some six or seven centuries ago was about seventy-five; but they were exactly seventy-three according to my next informant, Mr."

• attestation: Thomas, dated Walham Grove, London, S.W., April 27, 1882 (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Thomas, dated Walham Grove, London, S.W., April 27, 1882."

• attestation: Thomas was a man of very strong common sense, and worth consulting on any subject: he was a good arithmetician, and a constant reader of the Baptist periodical, Seren Corner, from its first appearance (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Thomas was a man of very strong common sense, and worth consulting on any subject: he was a good arithmetician, and a constant reader of the Baptist periodical, Seren Corner, from its first appearance."

• relationship: At this kind of display of simplicity on the part of his brother, Thomas used to smile and say: ' My brother John beheves such things as those;' for he had no belief in them himself Still it is from h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "At this kind of display of simplicity on the part of his brother, Thomas used to smile and say: ' My brother John beheves such things as those;' for he had no belief in them himself Still it is from his mouth that Mr."

• attestation: Thomas suggested that the idea of the existence of the country of Rhys Dwfn's Children arose from the contemplation of that phenomenon (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Thomas suggested that the idea of the existence of the country of Rhys Dwfn's Children arose from the contemplation of that phenomenon."

• attestation: Thomas died some twentyfive years ago, at the age of eighty-seven (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "Thomas died some twentyfive years ago, at the age of eighty-seven."

• attestation: Thomas' Parsonage, Douglas, and we found the well nearly dried up in consequence of the drainage of the field around it; but the remains of the old cell were there, and the thorn bush had strips of cl (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "Thomas' Parsonage, Douglas, and we found the well nearly dried up in consequence of the drainage of the field around it; but the remains of the old cell were there, and the thorn bush had strips of cloth or calico tied to its branches."

• attestation: D-eufer Thomas, who is also a native of the district, alludes to the local belief that Owen Lawgoch and his men are asleep, as already mentioned, in t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "D-eufer Thomas, who is also a native of the district, alludes to the local belief that Owen Lawgoch and his men are asleep, as already mentioned, in the cave of Pant y D-yn, and that they are 10 go on sleeping there till a trumpet blast and the clash of arms on Rhiw Goch rouse them to sally forth to combat the Saxons and to conquer, as set forth by Howells: see p. 381 above."

• attestation: If I woke the sleeper, the soul would be unable to return; and old Thomas would die, or go crazy; or something serious would happen (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "If I woke the sleeper, the soul would be unable to return; and old Thomas would die, or go crazy; or something serious would happen."

• attribution: Thomas, of Bancau Bryn Berian close by, has communicated to me certain echoes of a slory how an afanc was caught in a pool near the bridge of Bryn Berian, and how it was taken up to be interred in wha (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Thomas, of Bancau Bryn Berian close by, has communicated to me certain echoes of a slory how an afanc was caught in a pool near the bridge of Bryn Berian, and how it was taken up to be interred in what is now regarded as its grave."