Fairies on Dry Land in Wales

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The fairies seem not to delight in open, plain grounds of any kind (far from stone and wood) nor in watery grounds, but in dry grounds not far from trees and hedges and the shade of grown trees – the hazel and the oak (the female oak especially, being more branched and shading) – where the ground is dry, even, and clear from brakes and bushes about them. Of all the places in the parish of Aberystruth they most frequently appeared at Hafod-y-dafol and Cefn Bach, which are dry, light, and pleasant places. Does not this correspond something with our Saviour’s saying (who perfectly understands even hell itself) of the unclean spirits: that they walked in dry places when ejected out of the souls of men? ‘When the unclean spirit is gone out of man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and findeth none’ (Matthew 12.43). Jones

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