Vengeance

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Vengeance cometh, Fast it approacheth (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "Vengeance cometh, Fast it approacheth."

• attestation: by long hearing the voice that said — Vengeance cometb (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "by long hearing the voice that said —

Vengeance cometb"

• attestation: nevertheless, by long hearing the voice that said — Vengeance cometb (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "nevertheless, by long hearing the voice that said —

Vengeance cometb"

• attestation: On the second night the marriage was consummated, and when happiest one heard a voice: all ear one listened and caught the words, "Vengeance comes, vengeance comes, vengeance comes," three times (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "On the second night the marriage was consummated, and when happiest one heard a voice: all ear one listened and caught the words, "Vengeance comes, vengeance comes, vengeance comes," three times."

• attestation: At cockcrow he heard a cry, '* Vengeance is come, is come, is come (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "At cockcrow he heard a cry, '* Vengeance is come, is come, is come.""

• attestation: -This prince, while enjo)ring the morning breezes of summer in his garden, used frequently to hear a voice saying, ' Vengeance will come.* But he always laughed the threat away with reckless contempt (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "The oppression and cruelty practised by him on the poor farmers were notorious far and near. -This prince, while enjo)ring the morning breezes of summer in his garden, used frequently to hear a voice saying, ' Vengeance will come.* But he always laughed the threat away with reckless contempt One night a poor harper"

• attestation: But about midnight, when there was an interval in the dancing, and the old harper had been left alone in a corner, he suddenly heard a voice singing in a sort of a whisper in his ear, ' Vengeance, ven (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "But about midnight, when there was an interval in the dancing, and the old harper had been left alone in a corner, he suddenly heard a voice singing in a sort of a whisper in his ear, ' Vengeance, vengeance!"

• attestation: But the bird continued to invite him on, and to sing in a plaintive and mournful voice the word ' Vengeance, vengeance 1 ' The old harper was afraid of refusing to follow, and so they went on over bog (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "But the bird continued to invite him on, and to sing in a plaintive and mournful voice the word ' Vengeance, vengeance 1 ' The old harper was afraid of refusing to follow, and so they went on over bogs and through thickets, whilst the bird was all the time hovering in front of him and leading him along the easiest and safest paths."

• attestation: But if he stopped for a moment the same mournful note of 'Vengeance, vengeance 1 ' would be sung to him in a more and more plaintive and heartbreaking fashion (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "But if he stopped for a moment the same mournful note of 'Vengeance, vengeance 1 ' would be sung to him in a more and more plaintive and heartbreaking fashion."

• attestation: As that ancient prince rode through his fertile heritage one day at the approach of night (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "As that ancient prince rode through his fertile heritage one day at the approach of night, he heard the voice of an invisible follower warning him that 'Vengeance is coming, coming.'"

• attestation: 403-4, in order to direct his attention to the fact that the voice so closely identifies itself with the wronged family that it speaks in the first person, as it cries, ' Vengeance is come on him who (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "The last mentioned deserves some further scrutiny; and I take this opportunity of referring the reader back to pp. 403-4, in order to direct his attention to the fact that the voice so closely identifies itself with the wronged family that it speaks in the first person, as it cries, ' Vengeance is come on him who murdered my father of the ninth generation!"