eld and carried off her pretty baby, leaving in its place one of their own infants. At the time, the mother did not notice any difference between her own child a

then listen to its conversation. She took an egg-shell and pretended to brew beer in it,

fesen ga

is wy g

ais i erio

ibyn w

an oak hav

n a hen ha

r saw befo

ell of a

lay in the cradle. The stanza was taken down from Roberts's li

ake the Fairy's changeling and place it on the top of a dunghill, and then to c

h was as follows:-The mother who had lost her child was to carry the changeling to a river, but she was to be accompanie

ar y

on th

ther was t

yr gyf

e decre

o the stream, and to depart, and it was believed that on reach

upposed changeling became the mainstay of his family. I am indebted for the Gors Goch legend to an essay, written by Mr. D. Williams, Llanfachreth, Merionethshire,