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

getting on, but that they were always crying, day and night. 'Are you sure that they are your children?' asked the witch, adding that it did not seem to her that they were like hers. 'I hav

d proceed to brew beer in it in a chamber aside, and come here to tell me what the children will say about it.' She went home and did as the witch had directed her, when the two children lifted their heads out of the cradle to see what she was doing, to watch, and to

r off, with one of the strange children under each arm, and there to drop them from the bridge into the river beneath. The mother went back home ag

own two children, presumably conveyed there by the Fairies. In the first tale, we are informed that she saw the goblins save their offspring from a watery grave. Subjecting peevish children to such a terrible ordeal as this must have ended often with a tragedy, but even in such cases superstitious mo

. D. H. Griffiths, of Clocaenog Rectory, near Ruthin. The tale was told hi