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

eld and carried off her pretty baby, leaving in its place one of their own infants. At the time, the mother did not notice any difference between her own child a

then listen to its conversation. She took an egg-shell and pretended to brew beer in it,

fesen ga

is wy g

ais i erio

ibyn w

an oak hav

n a hen ha

r saw befo

ell of a

lay in the cradle. The stanza was taken down from Roberts's li

ake the Fairy's changeling and place it on the top of a dunghill, and then to c

h was as follows:-The mother who had lost her child was to carry the changeling to a river, but she was to be accompanie

ar y

on th

ther was t

yr gyf

e decre

o the stream, and to depart, and it was believed that on reach

upposed changeling became the mainstay of his family. I am indebted for the Gors Goch legend to an essay, written by Mr. D. Williams, Llanfachreth, Merionethshire,