{"id":6889,"date":"2021-10-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:43:00","slug":"a-welsh-witch-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/a-welsh-witch-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"A Welsh Witch in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by\u00a0Sara Weber,\u00a0Special Collections Digital Project Specialist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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“There is hardly any Traveller in Wales, who has not heard, at least, of the titles of some of those ancient traditionary tales, which every grandmother, on a cold winter evening, repeats to her grandchildren, sitting round the blazing hearth.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus does the anonymous author or editor of Welsh Legends: a Collection of Popular Oral Tales<\/a><\/em> (London: printed by J.D. Dewick … for J. Badcock, 1802) preface the five pieces found in this book. For this year’s Halloween post, we share with you the full text of the second piece, a poem titled “The Weird Witch of the Wood”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Part the First, wherein we meet our hero, Sir Eldred the Bold,
on a dark and stormy night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Part the Second, wherein our hero meets the evil Witch.
Things don’t go well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Part the Third, wherein the Witch makes a proposition to Sir Eldred.
He declines, with help from his faith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Halloween to you and yours
from all of us in Notre Dame\u2019s Special Collections!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Halloween 2016: Ghosts in the Stacks<\/a><\/em>
Halloween 2017: A spooky story for Halloween: The Goblin Spider<\/a><\/em>
Halloween 2018: A story for Halloween: “Johnson and Emily; or, The Faithful Ghost”<\/a><\/em>
Halloween 2019: A Halloween trip to Mexico<\/em><\/a>
Halloween 2020: Headless Horsemen in American and Irish Legend<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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