Old Gyilym
In this story, you learn to never tick off a bunch of fairies that are trying to help you! Old Gyilym Evans was going to town for his wife to buy groceries. He found a golden coin on his way and ended up getting drunk instead. On his way back, he passed out in the fairies house and woke up in a bunch of gorse. When he got home, he told his wife what had happened and she called him a fool and told him it was the fairies taking revenge for him waisting the money they gave him.
(Fairy Passage. Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The Old Man and the Fairies, Tommy Pritchard and Kaddy's Luck
In this story we find out the first rule of fairy club, is you don't talk about fairy club, to anyone! First an Old Man is given a bag full of gold. After his wife nagged him to death about where the coins came from, he finally told her. Overnight, the fairies took all the gold back. Little Tommy Pritchard used to pick up a coin every day on his way to school and he would spend it in the sweet-shop. His father noticed that he always had money and threatened to whip him if he didn't tell him where the money was coming from. Tommy told him and the fairies stopped leaving him a coin. And poor Kaddy used to hang out with the fairies when she was younger until she got married and had a child of her own. One evening while on their way to the fair, she was telling her husband about how she used to play with the fairies. The next day they found a different smaller baby in the crib, the fairies had switched them out.
So, the final rule about fairy club is don't talk about fairy club!
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