The Welsh name for the Brownie. Often mischevious and fond of playing pranks on humans. He is known to act as a Will o the Wisp, leading a traveller up a narrow path to edge of a cliff. The Bwca will then blow out his candle and jump over, laughing loudly and leaving...
Folklore
Caillagh Ny Groamagh
The Manx version of the Highland Cailleach Bheur and the Irish Cailleach Bera. The Manx Cailleagh, as Gill tells us in A MANX SCRAPBOOK, seems to be particularly unlucky, for she fell into the crevise called after her in trying to step from the top of Barrule to the...
Spring-Heeled Jack
Spring-Heeled Jack, a high-jumping man-like creature first seen in the 1840’s near London. Jack would attack women or cause carriages to run off the road, then run off with a high-pitched, mocking laugh. According to those who encountered him, Spring-Heeled Jack...
Water Leaper (Llamhigyn Y Dwr)
The Water Leaper, also known as Llamhigyn Y Dwr, is a creature from Welsh folklore that lived in swamps, lakes and ponds. It is described as a giant frog with a bat’s wings instead of forelegs, no hind legs, and a long, lizard-like tail. It jumps across the...
Knocker
The Knocker, Knacker, Bwca (Welsh), Bucca (Cornish) or Tommyknocker (US) is the Welsh and Cornish equivalent of Irish leprechauns and English and Scottish brownies. About two feet tall and grizzled, but not misshapen, they live beneath the ground. Here they wear tiny...
Robin Goodfellow
(Anglo-Celtic) Since, if you “speak of the Devil” he will appear, Puck’s euphemistic “disguised” name is “Robin Goodfellow” or “Hobgoblin”,in which “Hob” may substitute for “Rob” or may...
May Day – May 1st
May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays. In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. As a day of celebration...
Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night is a traditional Pagan holiday, Roman Catholic Saint’s day, and Satanic [1] holiday celebrated on April 30 or May 1 in large parts of Central and Northern Europe The current festival is in most countries celebrating it named after Saint Walpurga,...
Alban Hefin – June 21
Around June 21Alban Heruin, or “The Light of the Shore,” is also referred to as Litha, Midsummer’s Day or The Summer Solstice. The longest day and the shortest night of the year, is a time of triumph for the light. It is the time when the Sun reached...
Beltane
April 30 / Mayday is celebrated on the first of MayPronounced “bel-ten-ya” or “bel-chen-ya” depending on the Gaelic dialect. The word means literally ‘the fire of Bel’, a deity related to Belinus. the festival went by many names:...