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31st March, 2025 in Folklore, Natural World
A magical mermaid story extracted from the new book Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea by Peter Stevenson. The Welsh Utopia Amser maith yn ôl / A long time ago. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was once a mix of forests, lakes,…
3rd May, 2023 in Folklore, Local & Family History
Peter Stevenson author of Illustrated Welsh Folk Tales for Young and Old tells the extraordinary tale of the man who brought moving panoramas to the Welsh Valleys in the form of a ‘crankie’. Years ago I started telling Welsh folk tales with a crankie, a wooden box the s…
16th September, 2021
Peter Stevenson author of Boggarts, Trolls and Tylwyth Teg tells the magical stories of the hidden people and lost lands in Wales. On the 15 January 2020, shortly before travel became a dream, I sat sketching an 800 year old Rimu tree at Otari-Wilton’s Bush, close to Wellington,…
1st July, 2019 in Folklore
In June 2019, I was in Morgantown, West Virginia, hanging an exhibition of Welsh folk art in the Monongalia Arts Center. On the opening night, a lady told me her mother had organised a Welsh Eisteddfod in Morgantown up until the early 1960s, a lady from the St David’s Society of…
23rd January, 2017
In Wales, folk tales are intricately entwined with the landscape and people who live there. Stories are set in specific places, villages, streets, woods, lakes, seashores, rivers, valleys, mountains, bogs, coastlines and cities. The characters, too, are real, memories of those wh…
