British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Welsh Fairy Mythology, Celtic Goblin Tales, and Victorian FolkloreBy Wirt Sikes
Length11h 52m
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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions is a rich Victorian compendium of Welsh supernatural belief, gathering tales of fairies, knockers, lake maidens, spectral hounds, witches, changelings, and haunted landscapes. Sikes writes in a learned yet lively antiquarian style, combining anecdote, local testimony, comparative mythology, and narrative retelling. The work belongs to the nineteenth-century folklore revival, when oral traditions were being collected as survivals of older Celtic imagination and as evidence of national cultural identity. Wirt Sikes, an American journalist, writer, and United States consul in Cardiff, was unusually placed to observe Welsh life with both outsiderly curiosity and sympathetic attention. His diplomatic residence in Wales gave him access to local informants, regional publications, and the living texture of rural belief. His background as a man of letters shaped the book's energetic prose, while his era's fascination with mythology, ethnology, and popular antiquities informed its interpretive ambition. This volume is highly recommended to readers of folklore, Celtic studies, Victorian literature, and mythography. Though modern scholarship may question some of Sikes's assumptions, the book remains invaluable as a vivid record of Welsh tradition and a compelling gateway into Britain's enchanted cultural past.
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GenrePsychology
Length11 hrs 52 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (Annotated)
21CHAPTER VI.
2PREFACE.
22CHAPTER VII.
3BOOK I. THE REALM OF FAERIE.
23CHAPTER VIII.
4CHAPTER I.
24CHAPTER IX.
5CHAPTER II.
25BOOK III. QUAINT OLD CUSTOMS.
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6CHAPTER III.
26CHAPTER I.
7CHAPTER IV.
27CHAPTER II.
8CHAPTER V.
28CHAPTER III.
9CHAPTER VI.
29CHAPTER IV.
10CHAPTER VII.
30CHAPTER V.
11CHAPTER VIII.
31CHAPTER VI.
12CHAPTER IX.
32CHAPTER VII.
13CHAPTER X.
33BOOK IV. BELLS, WELLS, STONES, AND DRAGONS.
14CHAPTER XI.
34CHAPTER I.
15BOOK II. THE SPIRIT-WORLD.
35CHAPTER II.
16CHAPTER I.
36CHAPTER III.
17CHAPTER II.
37CHAPTER IV.
18CHAPTER III.
38CHAPTER V.
19CHAPTER IV.
39Memorable Quotes
20CHAPTER V.
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