Among the vulgar people of Wales, belief in fairies was not as endangered as the casual observer might imagine. Even educated people who live in Wales and have lived there all their lives cannot always be classified as casual observers of the field.

Among the vulgar people of Walesbelief in fairies is not as endangered as the casual observer might imagine. Even educated people who live in Wales and have lived there all their lives cannot always be classified as casual observers of the field.

There are a few such residents who are particularly concerned about the subject and have formed an opinion about the level of gullibility that prevails here; but I find that most educated Welsh people have no opinion at all except vague astonishment that the subject should even be was brought up.

"Travellers can now travel from one end of the Principality to the other without being shocked or amused by any fairy tale or popular story, as the case may be." But in the same issue 18 years later I find that John Mr. Walter Lukis (President of the Cardiff Society of Naturalists) asserted concerning the Cromlechs, Tumulites, and ancient camps in Glamorgan: “There have always been fairy tales and ghost stories connected with them; Some people, although completely believed by the inhabitants of these places, are often the most absurd; in fact, the more absurd they are, the more people believe them."

If they live in the south, go to the north. But they specifically think it goes back to a previous era: in Wales, the last century, or the Middle Ages, or the days of King Arthur.

The headmaster of Merthyr was an older man and he awarded it to young people. "I am old enough to remember that these stories were thoroughly believed by the country folk forty or fifty years ago," he wrote to me on January 30, 1877. "It seems to me that in every age, except in more distant lands, people of superior culture have held this belief in fairy tale knowledge.