Ernest Rhys

Tale Summary Long before King Arthur, there was a king in the eastern part of England who kept his Court at Colchester, who was left with his beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter when his wife died. The king remarried with an ugly, horrible woman on account of her wealth, and she had...

Tale Summary There was once, in Yorkshire at a place called Dalton, a Giant that was a miller and who used to grind men’s bones to make bread. One day the giant had caught a boy named Jack, and kept him as his servant for many years, never letting him...

Tale Summary After overbaking five pies, a woman tells her daughter to put them on a shelf to let the crust get soft again, to eat later. The daughter thought that if they would be okay to eat later, she may as well eat them then, and so ate each...

Tale Summary Once upon a time there was a young woman named Lady Mary, who went with her two brothers to one of their country houses. A young man named Mr. Fox often visited with them, whom Lady Mary was quite taken with; he frequently invited her over to his...

Tale Summary Once upon a time there was a girl who was born to a father who only wished for a male heir, and so was sent by her mother to live with a foster-nurse in a house by the great oak wood. When she was fifteen years old, her...

Tale Summary In Cornwall, the first mole was once a beautiful woman. She was an only child; her family was lordly, and her father dead. Her name was Anne of the Combe, and she was very lovely, and most striking of all her features were her big blue eyes. Every...

Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a knight who bore a wyvern (a type of dragon) on his shield, and who one day was riding past Gloucester when he heard of a magical fairy mound. It was a place where tired knights and hunters could climb up to...

Tale Summary Once, a wonderful thing happened at St. Mary’s of the Wolf-pits, and that thing was the discovery of two strange children by the townspeople. The children, a brother and sister, were from the lower world and their skin was a green tint. No one could understand their speech,...

Tale Summary One winter-tide at Camelot, when Arthur was King of Britain, there were fifteen days of celebration amongst the Knights of the Round Table. Just as the first course commenced, an unfamiliar knight appeared at the doorway. He was huge, dressed all in green and riding a green horse,...

Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a young heir of Lambton Castle, who lived a very careless life. One Sunday morning he was fishing, and after cursing for a time after having no bites, caught a worm, which he tossed into a nearby well (still known as the...