Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist 556

The terrors of superstition and magic 557
The folklorist's activity no fostering of
superstition 558
Folklore a portion of history 558
The difficulty of separating story and history 559
Arthur and the Snowdon Goidels as an illustration 559
Rhita Gawr and the mad kings Nynio and Peibio 560
Malory's version and the name Rhita, Ritho, Ryons 562
Snowdon stories about Owen Ymhacsen and Cai 564
Goidelic topography in Gwyned 566
The Goidels becoming Compatriots or Kymry 569
The obscurity of certain superstitions a difficulty 571
Difficulties arising from their apparent absurdity
illustrated by the March and Labraid stories 571
Difficulties from careless record illustrated by
Howells' Ychen Bannog 575
Possible survival of traditions about the urus 579
A brief review of the lake legends and the iron
tabu 581
The scrappiness of the Welsh Tom Tit Tot stories 583
The story of the widow of Kittlerumpit compared 585
Items to explain the names Sìli Ffrit and Sìli
go Dwt 590
Bwca'r Trwyn both brownie and bogie in one 593
That bwca a fairy in service, like the Pennant
nurse 597
The question of fairies concealing their names 597
Magic identifying the name with the person 598
Modryb Mari regarding cheese-baking as disastrous
to the flock 599
Her story about the reaper's little black soul 601
Gwenogvryn Evans' lizard version 603
Diseases regarded as also material entities 604
The difficulty of realizing primitive modes
of thought 605