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. A Welsh folklore classic collated by PH Emerson as far back as 1812. 7 to 101 or to be read to younger audiences. Perfect Bound Paperback. 33% of the net will be donated to The Prince's Trust. Printed from Sustainable forests with Chain of Custody certification.. Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories This book was especially republished to raise funds for these charities & many more...33% of the publisher's profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.A GREAT READ FOR KIDS!This volume contains 24 mainly Welsh tales collected in and around Wales by PH Emerson whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. In most cases amended as little as possible recording the stories as told, so that the written story seemed as if was being presented in the vernacular. Stories like THE FAIRIES OF CARAGONAN, THE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITH, OLD GWILYM, THE BABY-FARMER, THE OLD MAN AND THE FAIRIES and more.Why do we call such a collection Fairy Tales? Well, when last did you hear a child say 'One more folk tale please' or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'? Fairy tales are stories in which occurs something 'fairy', something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. Stories of fairy interaction with humans – where the kind and thoughtful are blessed and the thoughtless and spiteful are punished. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. 33% of the publisher's profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the Prince's Trust. ABELA PUBLISHING - YESTERDAYS BOOKS raising funds for TODAYS CHARITIES Excerpt from Welsh Fairy Tales and Other StoriesTHE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITH Once upon a time an old blacksmith lived in an old forge atCraig-y-don, and he used to drink a great deal too much beer.One night he was coming home from an alehouse very tipsy, and as he got near a small stream a lot of little men suddenly sprang up from the rocks, and one of them, who seemed to be older than the rest, came up to him, and said, "If you don't alter your ways of living you'll die soon; but if youbehave better and become a better man you'll find it will be to your benefit," and they all disappeared as quickly as they had come. The old blacksmith thought a good deal about what the fairies had told him, and he left off drinking, and became a sober, steady man. One day, a few months after meeting the little people, a strange man brought a horse to be shod. Nobody knew either the horse or the man. The old blacksmith tied the horse to a hole in the lip of a cauldron (used for the purpose of cooling his hot iron) that he had built in some masonry. When he had tied the horse up he went to shoe the off hind-leg, but directly he touched the horse the spirited animal started back with a bound, and dragged the cauldron from the masonry, and then it broke the halter and ran away out of the forge, and was never seen again: neither the horse nor its master. When the old blacksmith came to pull down the masonry to rebuild it, he found three brass kettles full of money. Table of Contents for Welsh Fairy Tales and Other StoriesTHE FAIRIES OF CARAGONAN THE CRAIG-Y-DON BLACKSMITHOLD GWILYM THE BABY-FARMER THE OLD MAN AND THE FAIRIESTOMMY PRITCHARDKADDY'S LUCK THE STORY OF GELERTORIGIN OF THE THE CROWS ROBERTS AND THE FAIRIES THE FAIRY OF THE DELL ELLEN'S LUCKTHE FAIRIES' MINT THE PELLINGS THE LONG-LIVED ANCESTORSTHE GIANTESS'S APRON-FULL A FABLE THE STORY OF THE PIG-TROUGHBILLY DUFFY AND THE DEVILJOHN O' GROATS EVA'S LUCKTHE FISHERMEN OF SHETLANDTHE PASTOR'S NURSE