CHAPTER X

Difficulties of the Folklorist 556

The terrors of superstition and magic 557

The folklorist's activity no fostering of

superstition 558

Folklore a portion of history 558

The difficulty of separating story and history 559

Arthur and the Snowdon Goidels as an illustration 559

Rhita Gawr and the mad kings Nynio and Peibio 560

Malory's version and the name Rhita, Ritho, Ryons 562

Snowdon stories about Owen Ymhacsen and Cai 564

Goidelic topography in Gwyned 566

The Goidels becoming Compatriots or Kymry 569

The obscurity of certain superstitions a difficulty 571

Difficulties arising from their apparent absurdity

illustrated by the March and Labraid stories 571

Difficulties from careless record illustrated by

Howells' Ychen Bannog 575

Possible survival of traditions about the urus 579

A brief review of the lake legends and the iron

tabu 581

The scrappiness of the Welsh Tom Tit Tot stories 583

The story of the widow of Kittlerumpit compared 585

Items to explain the names Sìli Ffrit and Sìli

go Dwt 590

Bwca'r Trwyn both brownie and bogie in one 593

That bwca a fairy in service, like the Pennant

nurse 597

The question of fairies concealing their names 597

Magic identifying the name with the person 598

Modryb Mari regarding cheese-baking as disastrous

to the flock 599

Her story about the reaper's little black soul 601

Gwenogvryn Evans' lizard version 603

Diseases regarded as also material entities 604

The difficulty of realizing primitive modes

of thought 605

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