Welsh Fairy Tales, by William Elliot Griffis
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Welsh Fairy Tales, by William Elliot Griffis
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Long, long ago, there was a good saint named David, who taught the early Cymric or Welsh people better manners and many good things to eat and ways of enjoying themselves. Now the Welsh folks in speaking of their good teacher pronounced his name Tafid and affectionately Taffy, and this came to be the usual name for a person born in Wales. In our nurseries we all learned that "Taffy was a Welshman," but it was their enemies who made a bad rhyme about Taffy.
Welsh Fairy Tales, by William Elliot Griffis- Amazon Sales Rank: #6557713 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .17" w x 6.00" l, .24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 74 pages
About the Author Griffis (1843-1928) travelled to Japan in 1870 to teach and soon became a leading educator in Tokyo. His work took him around the country meeting various prominent people. He wrote and lectured extensively on Japan upon his return home, becoming the West's most respected authority on Japanese culture. He received the Order of the Rising Sun in 1928.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Delightful easy to read tales with a Welsh flavor By Israel Drazin W. E. Griffis, the author of this collection of twenty four short stories, lived between 1843 and 1928. His tales have a distinct Welsh flavor. They speak about the Welsh history, the countryside, and the customs of the people. His first tale, for example, tells that the name Taffy used by the Welsh is a mispronunciation of David, a saint who came to the country and taught the people how to eat a good food without killing an animal. This was to melt a good cheese over bread. The British, who loved to eat rabbits, called this delicacy Welsh Rabbit, and many people today think that a Welsh Rabbit is a food made from animals. The second has an interesting twist on the story of a warrior fighting a monster. In this tale, the hero is a beautiful young girl who perfumes herself and enchants the monster with her beauty and her smells and her lullaby, which causes him to fall asleep. The story is ostensibly is about the distant past and the origin of some famous Welsh places. The third tells some adventures of Hugh the conjurer. He was a seventh son, and seventh sons in Wales have magical powers. Once he was told that people who came to a certain Inn were robbed, even though their rooms were locked and there was no sign that any human had entered. Hugh, willing to go anywhere to help people, agreed to solve the crimes. The fourth allegedly relates the history of the country, how the people settled the land, the wars between tribes, how women were treated, and how customs like the "wake" were created (people had to stay awake all night to protect the dead from wild animals).
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Perfect Welsh Children Learn to Make Cheese on Toast! By Amazon Customer I read Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by the same author, and was so terribly unimpressed with them that I only read enough of this one to ascertain that it was similar--except this one involves Welsh children learning the Secret of Cheese on Toast instead of Dutch ones learning the Secret of Flax. If you can handle the perfectly obedient children go ahead and read it, otherwise Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories was much better.Stories included are:Welsh Rabbit and Hunted HaresThe Mighty Monster AfangThe Two Cat WitchesHow the Cymry Land Became InhabitedThe Boy that was Named TroubleThe Golden HarpThe Great Red Dragon of WalesThe Touch of ClayThe Touch of IronThe Maiden of the Green ForestThe Treasure Stone of the FairiesGiant Tom and Giant BlubbA Boy that Visited FairylandThe Welshery and the NormansThe Welsh Fairies Hold a MeetingKing Arthur's CaveThe Lady of the LakeThe King's Foot HolderPowell, Prince of DyfedPowell and his BrideWhy the Back Door was FrontThe Red Bandits of MontgomeryThe Fairy CongressThe Sword of Avalon
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A Cheerfully Nutty and Idiosyncratic Collection By Pop Bop The author of this volume, William Elliot Griffis, was a proud Pennsylvanian descended from Welsh stock. He was a Congregational minister and a prominent orientalist, but as a Welshman from Pennsylvania, especially in 1921, he was a Welshman through and through. (The dedication of the book to his Welsh born grandfather is both touching and hilarious and a perfect example of how proud the early American Welsh were to wear the leek.)Anyway, this collection is a labor of love, not academic scholarship. No footnotes, no citation of sources, no careful parsing of disputed passages from the Red Book of Hergest, ("Llyfr Coch Hergest"), this is an energetic, muscular all out love letter to Wales, the Welsh, and traditional Welsh stories. It's loaded with questionable history and dubious explanations of the origins of the Cymry, and apparently Saint David was responsible for inventing everything from Welsh rarebit, (rabbit), to the telephone. But I don't care, because Griffis is a tremendous storyteller, with an instinct for the rhythm of a story and the telling, engaging detail.You can read this yourself as a light entertainment, or I guess you could read it critically if you are so inclined, but this strikes me as best as a read aloud for a younger listener. The tales aren't scary, but they are clever, or touching, or full of action, or fantastic, and really beg to be read out loud. Despite the fact that the text is almost a hundred years old it is fresh and clear and direct, which also recommends it for younger, modern readers.This is a well formatted and readable Kindle freebie, (although without an active Table of Contents), and has so much zest and personality, it ended up being a very pleasant freebie find.
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