Lovely, my Welsh born friend died 19 months ago, she was born in Bethesda & spoke only Welsh til she went to teacher training college in her teens where she learned to speak English. She married a farmer from Mid Wales & lived here on the farm for the rest of her life with her husband & four children, she became a teacher & then the Head Teacher, in the local school that taught in the Welsh medium but later Welsh/English. She used to tell me the tales of Mabinogion & Taliesin, she’d try me with a smattering of Welsh. She’s very much missed.& this reminded me of her., many thanks 🙏

Love this story, know it from when I was a child as a slightly different version from German author Helga Gebert (she created a nice rhyme about the bread) and just wrote a new interpretation myself, concerning a special precious healing water loving plant (Eupatorium cannabinum) the 'Wasserfräulein' leaves at the shore for her children after returning to the water. Didn't know the original version had a herbal end too, wunderbar!!

A stirring tale. Remember to be thoughtful!

I love fairy tales, it would be amazing if could do a series of fairy tales from around the world 🖤🌠🖤

Beautifully Narrated Tony!! Thank you so Much Again!!😊❤ Namasté 🙏🕊️ Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...

Enchanting this time as well.Masterful. Thank you.

Gripping, enchanting! Marvelous dialect and Welch that positively sings. Heard true Welch many years ago in my grandparents' Wales--Men loading lorries singing in pure harmony. Swallowing tears right now. Remembering.Thank you!

Excellent, I've heard a synopsis of this but never the complete story. Thanks!

Thank you for making this, I really appreciate more good Welsh representation on KZfaq. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The Selkie Bride, a Scottish folktale is very similar. Thank you for the beautiful narration.🙏

That was amazing…….❤️

I'm ecstatic!!!!!Welsh folklore is my absolute favorite!!!! I couldn't handle the possibly disturbingly implied sexual subject matter of the Turning of the Screw. It gave me an anxiety attack. This will be much better.

Lovely. Your reading was like a movie for my ears. ❤️

Thank you for this story, i would love more faerie stories if you can find them!

I first came across this old Welsh folktale while watching a fairy documentary. I was particularly interested in this folktale, because it’s one of those old folktales that describes a union between a human and a fairy. There’s another interesting folktale, British I believe. It’s about a midwife and her young maid. The young maid falls in love with a fairy man, and they end up having a baby, and the midwife ends up delivering that baby. I just love these tales. I’m half Russian on my mother’s side, and I was also born and raised in Russia, and Russia also has many old Slavic folktale about an interaction between fairies and humans.

Wales is the only place I've ever been where I couldn't figure out the pronunciation of local place names during the time I was there.

Absolutely loved this! Thank you so much Tony! It’s nice to have some one read to me, instead of having to read myself before going to sleep! Great Welsh accent! I’ve already put your new story on my playlist called super entertainment, even though I haven’t heard it because I trust your discernment so much! How could I not since every story that you read is great! Namaste! 🙏I hope you and your partner are well! You are lucky to have somebody spiritual in your life even though we are all spiritual beings temporarily having a physical experience not the other way around! But to have somebody very aware of this in your life, will benefit you tremendously because of their depth of awareness and understanding of life their intentions for you can be of tremendous benefit and influence your success for the better! Blessings!🧚‍♀️✨🧚‍♀️

I thick I have a favorite now ❤️

Relistening to this tale just to hear your Welsh accent. Sounding great on my TV speakers, next best thing since I don't see you doing live readings any more.

Loved this thank you . Your welsh accent is very good also

If she didn't want to be married to the guy she should have just said so

Delirium inducing music! Oh what pictures come! Like the incantory sound of Welsh, Tony you worked a spell like a great magician. How long did you rehearse that tongue-twister beautiful speech of old- I completely understand why you are 1 individual who intends to preserve the tongue. A good yarn too, not spooky but not meant to be, more aimed at imparting folk wisdom- ? I didn't listen to your talk yet, if I don't, REMIND ME. I have learned SO MUCH, it's a pleasure to have not only a spooky or scary taste of horror or a folk tale AND a short lecture, that's a compliment, Professor- I wanted to be a perennial student- win that lottery, travel EVERYWHERE, write and photograph the world and spend much time studying all I couldn't as an undergrad- there was a course I could never schedule at my university, Religion, Witchcraft, something, Man, Myth, Magic- that defunct magazine was similar in content. Really fascinated by your knowledge of Jung and certain aspects of Freud. The latter applies to Fritz Leiber's or Lang? story too. The femme Fatale reminded me of Edvard Munch's vampiric women- he had issues around his sexuality I think. As a feminist I haven't much use for much of Freud but his writings you source are in my "if I only had some money " wish list. Along with James Merrill, Mark Fisher ( I have his essays on capitalism) and one of your books, Georgina ? and Neil Gaiman. That is the SERIOUS READING. Not the relaxing mysteries and music, always music....Namaste. ( glad you have an attic room of your own! All creative people should) Z.

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Anyone know why the maid considered her husband's benign contact causeless blows? Give me one causeless blow, and I'm gone, so I understand her clause but not her threshold. I needed Tony's waffle for this one. 😉

Scariest horror story on this channel yet is imagining being married to that gal.

1:09 Red hair, no doubt

Was she a Buddhist fairy?