The Fairies of Caragonan
-The fairy queen and her helpers cure a man who was cursed by a witch. In return she asks for a plot of land so that she can build a ring. She also asked for him to build three walls around it.
-The man is teased while chasing a hare and is once again cursed by a witch.
-They cure the cows of a man and in return ask for his son to help them.
-The fairies use a pole and a mirror to give the boy visions. From his visions, they decide they need to go hare hunting near the mill.
-The boy goes to the mill and manages to kill the witch.
-The boy once again is used for visions. He follows them and buys and old cupboard that turns out to be full of gold.
Three Short Tales of Fairies
Craig-Y-Don Blacksmith
-Fairies appear to a drunk blacksmith and tell him he needs to turn his life around. He decides to take their advice and sobers up. One day, a man brings a horse to him to be shod, but it ends up running away and moving the cauldron in the process. While fixing it up, the blacksmith finds money.
Old Gyilym
-A man finds some money which turned out to be a gift from fairies. Instead of using the money to be cheese, he goes out drinking. Later that night he gets taken in as a guest at a fairy house. He is punished and when he goes home his wife is mad and tells him it's no wonder they punished him since he wasted their gift.
The Baby-Farmer
-A baby-farmer finds money but still pretends to be poor. She kept two kids in good clothes and two in bad clothes. A man asks to see the kids and she brings out the badly dressed ones. When she goes to look for the well dressed children, they were gone and had been turned into fairies.
The Old Man and the Fairies
The Old Man and the Fairies
-A man falls asleep and is taken by fairies and shown their world. When he falls asleep again, they put him back where they found him. When he wakes up, his bag is full of gold. His wife is curious as to where he got the gold and he ends up telling her. But when he looks in the box for his money again, it's all cockle shells.
Tommy Pritchard
-A boy keeps finding six pences on his way to school. His dad gets angry that he won't tell him where he finds them and threatens to beat him, so the boy tells him. The next time he goes to look, all he finds is a cockle shell.
Kaddy's Luck
-Fairies used to leave a girl money every night. When she grew into a woman and had a baby with her husband, she told him about the money they used to give her. The baby was made small and never grew as punishment.
The Story of Gelert
-A prince has a dog beloved named Gelert. After the house is attacked by wolves, Gelert goes missing. The prince goes into the house to find Gelert and his baby surrounded by blood. Thinking that Gelert had hurt his baby, he kills him. It turns out Gelert had been attacking a wolf that was in the house and had accidentally knocked over the cradle. The prince is very upset and a funeral is held for Gelert.
Origin of the Welsh
-A wild tribe trains large birds called Rohs that are very fast and strong. They use them in battle to beat the Persians. The Persian king asks a magician to find a way to get rid of the birds, and the magician decides that the best thing he can do is to turn them into fairies. Since the tribal people lost their birds and were being attacked by the Persians, they decided to travel more. Many of them ended up on the British isles and that's how they became the Welsh.
Crows
-A man retells a dream he had about seven black crows seemingly warning him of his impending death. After retelling the story and going home, the man finds seven crows on top of his house. The man later dies.
The Fairy of the Dell
-The Fairy Queen of the Dell cures bewitched people of their curses. She is asked by the witch who cursed them to forgive her so she does a ritual to get rid of the devils and cleanse the witch. The witch is thankful and asks how she can help the queen. The queen gives the former witch the ability to help others and gives her the name Madame Dorothy. She becomes a famous care giver.
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