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'Tylwyth Teg' Divination.--The second narrative I quote:--'A farmer of this neighbourhood having lost his…

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Reference: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries · selected passage 240
Rights: public_domain
Language: English with translated testimony
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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'Tylwyth Teg' Divination.--The second narrative I quote:--'A farmer of this neighbourhood having lost his cattle, went to consult y dyn hysbys (a diviner), in Cardiganshire, who was friendly with the fairies

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_'Tylwyth Teg' Divination._--The second narrative I quote:--'A farmer of this neighbourhood having lost his cattle, went to consult _y dyn hysbys_ (a diviner), in Cardiganshire, who was friendly with the fairies. Whenever the fairies visited the diviner they foretold future events, secrets, and the whereabouts of lost property. After the farmer reached the diviner's house the diviner showed him the fairies, and then when the diviner had consulted them he told the farmer to go home as soon as he could and that he would find the cattle in such and such a place. The farmer did as he was directed, and found the cattle in the very place where the _dyn hysbys_ told him they would be.' And the third narrative asserts that a man in the parish of Trelech who was fraudulently excluded by means of a false will from inheriting the estate of his deceased father, discovered the defrauder and recovered the estate, solely through having followed the advice given by the _Tylwyth Teg_, when (again as in the above account) they were called up as spirits by a _dyn hysbys_, a Mr.

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