In this rich study of Celtic Folklore, John Rh?s leads readers into the mythic landscapes of Wales, Manx, and the wider Celtic world, where lakes, seas, ruined halls, and hidden voices preserve the memory of an older imagination. He opens with "Triumphs of the Water-world," a sweeping exploration of submerged cities, coastal ruins, fairy bells, and the uncanny persistence of the past beneath the water's surface. Moving between scholarship and storytelling, Rh?s shows how oral tradition binds landscape, history, and identity into living legend. Among the tales he examines are the Welsh story of Clerk Willin, whose cunning bargain ends in disaster when the queen proves to be an ogress and the king's palace sinks beneath the waves, and the many versions of lost cities such as Cantre'r Gwaelod, Llynclys, and Tyno Helig. He compares flood legends, traces their moral and mythic development, and questions careless retellings, while also ranging across the Ychen Bannog, the lake lady of Llyn y Fan Fach, and fairy-name traditions. The volume culminates in the spirited "Whuppity Stoorie" tale, where a desperate mother outwits a green-clad fairy and rescues her child with nothing but wit and the power of a true name. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
