Welsh Folk Tales - Chwedlau Gwerin Cymru

Wales has never been short of hills, rain, or stories that sound as if they were told beside a fire while something unexplained moved outside.

Welsh Folk Tales / Chwedlau Gwerin Cymru by Robin Gwyndaf gathers the myths, legends, local tales, and traditional storytelling of Wales, preserving a world of fairies, ghosts, giants, warnings, wonders, and deeply suspicious happenings in remote places.

This is folklore in its proper habitat: half history, half imagination, and wholly uninterested in modern scepticism. The bilingual title adds to the charm, reminding us that stories belong not just to places, but to languages, voices, and the particular music of how they are told.

There is a pleasing irony in publishing folk tales through a museum. These were once living stories, passed from person to person, adapted, embellished, and occasionally used to frighten children into behaving. Now they are neatly collected, preserved, and made respectable, like wild things behind glass.

This as new copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for readers of Welsh folklore, Celtic myth, traditional storytelling, and anyone who believes a country is best understood by listening to the tales it tells when the mist comes down.

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