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British Goblins - Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and
Traditions. British Goblins does a good job at its stated purpose -
collecting and loosely categorizing Welsh Folklore of every
category, ranging from the reasons behind certain customs and
superstitions of daily life, to descriptions and associated stories
of various faeries, goblins, and giants, to descriptions of
apparitions and the view of the afterlife, to more fantastic
things, like dragons, standing stones, and magic wells and stones.
Although a somewhat anecdotal approach is taken, the author has in
fact preserved a good deal of information that might have otherwise
been lost.
Wirt Sikes's 1881 tome defines and records Welsh fairy legends as
they existed -- still vital, alive, not just a mordant mythology
but living folklore in that year. Like many texts of the time, it
treats the subject mechanically, detailing fairy legends with such
care and precision as to leach away a measuyre of the magic. But
all the same, there's plenty of magic here: this is the myth that
modern fasntasy grows from; and the truth is that it's not to be
found elsewhere still alive. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1881 Edition.
Title: Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales ... With
illustrations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical
works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and
titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the
people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the
countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries,
Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Sikes, William
Wirt; 1881. xvi. 304 p.; 8 . 10369.g.1.
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