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Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales 2. The Fairies threw dust into a Man’s Eyes who Saw them Dance.This tale is taken from Cymru Fu, p. 176, and is from the pen of Glasynys. I give it in English. William Ellis, of Cilwern, was once fishing in Llyn Cwm Silin on a dark cloudy day, when he observed close by, in the rushes, a great number of men, or beings in the form of men, about a foot high, jumping and singing. He watched them for hours, and he never heard in all his life such singing. But William went too near them, and they threw some kind of dust into his eyes, and whilst he was rubbing his eyes, the little family disappeared and fled somewhere out of sight and never afterwards was Ellis able to get a sight of them. The next tale Glasynys shall relate in his own words. It appears in Cymru Fu immediately after the one just related. |
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