narrator says you seldom hear a fairy story in Anglesea unless there
is a witch in it.



(13) ELLEN'S LUCK.

Source: Told me by the same old man as No. 11. I believe it to be
genuine, and the narrator trustworthy.



(14) THE PELLINGS.

Source: Taken _verbatim_ from the old book referred to. In the
context the author says these people inhabited the districts about
the foot of Snowdon, and were known by the nickname of Pellings,
which is not yet extinct; and he says they tell the tale as given.
After telling the story, which he entitles a fairy story, he makes
the following suggestive comments:--

"Before the Reformation, when the Christian world was enveloped in
Popish darkness and superstition, when the existence of fairies and
other spectres was not questioned, and when such a swarm of idle
people, under the names of minstrels, poets, begging friars, etc.,
were permitted to ramble about, it may be supposed that these
vagrants had amongst themselves some kind of rule or government, if
I may so term it, as we are assured those that now-a-days go under
the name of gypsies have. Such people might, at appointed times on
fine moonlight nights, assemble in some sequestered spot, to