CHAPTER IX. PIETY AS A PROTECTION FROM THE SEDUCTIONS OF THE TYLWYTH TEGVarious Exorcisms--c**k-crowing--The Name of God--Fencing off the
Fairies--Old Betty Griffith and her Eikthin Barricade--Means of getting
Rid of the Tylwyth Teg--The Bwbach of the Hendrefawr Farm--The Pwca'r Trwyn's Flitting in a Jug of Barm
I.
THE extreme piety of his daily walk and conversation may have been held as an explanation why the Prophet Jones saw so few goblins himself, and consequently why most of his stories of the fairies are related as coming from other people. The value of a general habit of piety, as a means of being rid of fairies, has already been mentioned. The more worldly exorcisms, such as the production of a blackhandled knife, or the turning one's coat wrong side out, are passed over by th
