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British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

by Wirt Sikes & Thomas Henry Thomas (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions" by Wirt Sikes is a folklore collection published in 1880. Written by an American consul stationed in Cardiff, this compilation explores the supernatural world of Wales through fairies, spirits, ancient customs, and legendary creatures. Drawing from eighteenth-century sources and oral traditions gathered from Welsh locals, Sikes organized his findings into four sections covering everything from enchanted realms to dragons. The work became a landmark English-language study of Welsh mythology, though scholars debated its reliance on earlier collections versus original fieldwork. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Legendary beings and transformations, and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the subject metadata.

    • “ghost”· in subject
  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Fairies”. Retained metadata contains “Fairies” in the description and “Fairies” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairies”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairies”· in description
    • “Fairies”· in subject
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and project-gutenberg matched “Folklore”, “folklore”, “Mythology”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Legends” in the title, “Mythology” in the title, “Folklore” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folklore”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Mythology”· via The Online Books Page
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Legends”· in title
    • “Mythology”· in title

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Editions

3 editions cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1880-01-01T00:00:00ZS. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; S. Low, Marston, Searle& RivingtonEnglish—Public digitized item

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880

1880———Source listed online copy

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2010-12-20Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: University of California
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Illustrators: Thomas, T. H. (Thomas Henry)
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Scanner: google
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): GR150 .S4
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880
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