HOW THE CYMRY LAND BECAME INHABITED – Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

In all Britain to-day, no wolf roams wild and the deer are all tame.

In all Britain to-day, no wolf roams wild and the deer are all tame.

In old days, it was believed that the seventh son, in a family of sons, was a conjurer by nature. That is, he could work wonders like the fairies and excel the doctors in curing diseases.

After the Cymric folk, that is, the people we call Welsh, had come up from Cornwall into their new land, they began to cut down the trees, to build towns, and to have fields and gardens.

Long, long ago, there was a good saint named David, who taught the early Cymric or Welsh people better manners and many good things to eat and ways of enjoying themselves.