Goodbye to the Aberystruth Fairies (Monmouthshire)

Pin It

fairy goodbye

The last Apparition of the Fairies in the Parish of Aberystruth [Monmouthshire], was in the the fields of the Widow of Mr. Edmund Miles, not long before her death — Two men who were moving hay in one of her fields, the Bedwellty side of the river Ebwy Fawr, (one of whom is now an eminent man in his religious life) very early in the morning; at which time they saw the chief Servant of the House coming through the field on the other side of the river, toward them, and like a marriage company of people with some bravery, in white aprons to meet him; they met him and passed by, but of whom he seemed to them to take no notice. They asked the servant if he saw the marriage company ? he said ” No ” , at the same time they could hardly think any marriage could come that way, and that time of the day. This certainly must have been Fairies, and was partly a pressage of Mrs. Miles’s death, and partly it may be of the marriage of her daughter, — the heiress of the estate after the death of her brother Mr. John Miles, with that servant : the account of the Fairies, resembling a marriage company, could not be kept a secret from Mrs. Miles, which when she heard of it, gave her a deal of uneasiness, as she understood it as a pressage of her death, as indeed it was. Jones

Pin It