CELTIC FOLKLORE 



Welsh and Manx 



In two Volumes 

 Sir John Rhys 

 In an age of radio, television, and the car, of in- 

 dustrialization and uniformity, cultures and com- 

 munities no longer have a folklore. The imaginative, 

 mythic and oral-historic tradition of living cultures 

 has largely died out. 



So, thank goodness for researchers like John Rhys, 

 eminent philologist and anthropologist, passionate 

 scholar of Celtic Britain, who in the final decades of 

 the last century - inspired by early folklorists such as 

 Campbell, Keightley and Lang - went *into the field* 

 to document the then still-living traditions and 

 traditional beliefs (in fairies, elves and other *Uttle 

 people') of the rural Celts of Wales and the Isle of 

 Mann. 



Diligent he was; and these pages are the outcome 

 of painstaking work - yet never dull, always in- 

 formed, with a passionate interest and sympathy for 

 the Celtic peoples, and deeply curious about the 

 message, meanings and origins of those tales of 

 underground or underwater kingdoms, fairy realms 

 adjacent to our own. Rhys is a delightful writer and 

 we are all in his debt. 



Volume I ISBN 7045 0405 7 £5.50 

 Volume II ISBN 7045 0406 5 £4.95 



