Twrch

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: consisting of seven swine, and the Twrch himself is represented as carrying between his ears a comb, a razor, and a pair of shears (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "consisting of seven swine, and the Twrch himself is represented as carrying between his ears a comb, a razor, and a pair of shears."

• attestation: The hunt began and was continued for several days, but it did not prevent the Twrch from laying waste a fifth pari of Ireland, that is in Medieval Irish coked, a province ofthe island (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "The hunt began and was continued for several days, but it did not prevent the Twrch from laying waste a fifth pari of Ireland, that is in Medieval Irish coked, a province ofthe island."

• attestation: Then as to the precious articles carried by the Twrch about his head and ears, the comb, the razor.and the shears,.twooutof the three — the comb and the razor— belong to the regular stock of a certain (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Then as to the precious articles carried by the Twrch about his head and ears, the comb, the razor.and the shears,.twooutof the three — the comb and the razor— belong to the regular stock of a certain group of tales which recount how the hero elopes with the daughter of a giant who loses his life in the pursuit *."

• attestation: A twrch is killed in the same neighbourhood, where there is a river Twrch (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "A twrch is killed in the same neighbourhood, where there is a river Twrch."

• attestation: In the summary I have given of the hunt, I omitted a number of proper names of the men who fell at the different spots where the Twrch is represented brought to bay (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "In the summary I have given of the hunt, I omitted a number of proper names of the men who fell at the different spots where the Twrch is represented brought to bay."

• attestation: The idea that the story of Twrch Trw3^h was more or less topographical is not a new one (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "The idea that the story of Twrch Trw3^h was more or less topographical is not a new one."