Week 11 Reading Diary: Welsh Fairy Tales

Welsh Fairy Tales

A few of my favorite stories I read from the Welsh Fairy Tales unit was the Old Man and the Fairies and Tommy Pritchard. Although they were pretty short stories, I enjoyed reading them because they were so short and sweet. The first time, The Old Man and the Fairies was about a man who was carried off when he was asleep. The fairies filled his bag full of gold and he went back home. His wife wondered where he disappeared to and where he got the gold from. He wanted to use his gold to buy things, but when he went back to the box where he was keeping it, it was full of cockle-shell. The second story, Tommy Pritchard, was about a boy who found a sixpence underneath a stone. He went back every day and found a sixpence. His father began to wonder how he was buying candy all the time and thought he was stealing. When he questioned his son, he would not tell him where he got the money. The next time he went back to try to find a sixpence, he only found a cockle shell. He never found a sixpence in that spot again.

After reading the second half of the reading, my favorite story was The Story of John O'Groats. It was probably one of the longer stories, but I really enjoyed the story line. A wealthy lord dies and leaves his inheritance to his prodigal son. Quickly after he passes, the son spends all of his father's money and losses his estate to the lord's factor. Because he knew his son would spend all of his money, he left an inheritance for his son hidden in a hut he had built before he passed. The son is able to regain his estate and he never gambles his money again.