Welsh Folk-Lore / a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

ly called Twt y Cwmrws (the place of strife) on account of the extraordinary strife that has been there. The inhabitants of

te, as her house was solitary, and there were many tales of goblins or the 'Tylwyth Têg' (the Fair Family or the Fairies) haunting the neighbourhood. However, she went, and returned as soon as she could; but on coming back she felt hersel

a wise man, or a conjuror), feeling assured that everything was known to him, and he gave her his counsel. Now there was to be a harvest soon of the rye and oats; so the wise man said to her:-'When you are preparing dinner for the reapers empty the shell of a hen's egg, and boil the shell full of pottage and take it out through the door as if you meant it for a dinner to the reapers, and then listen what the twins will say;

sen cyn gw

wy cyn g

elais verwi

lisgyn

efore oa

befor

hen's egg-

for har

e Llyn, and suddenly the goblins in their trousers came to save their dwarfs, and the woma

lly from Welsh, as told by the peasantry, and he remarks that the legend be

is one of these recorded in Professor Rhys's Welsh Fairy Tales, Y Cymmrodor