About This Book
A systematic collection and analysis of Welsh and Manx oral traditions that gathers transcribed tales, fragments, and regional notes alongside critical commentary. It emphasizes fairy lore, tracing motifs connected with lakes, rivers, and floods and arguing that such material mixes mythic divine or demonic elements with memories of historical peoples. The work proposes an ethnological layering—an oldest low people followed by Pictish, Goidelic, and Brythonic influences—and develops these theses from folklore evidence. Prefatory chapters outline collecting methods, linguistic difficulties, provenance of items, and the author's approach to comparison and interpretation.