We’ve all heard about the antics of Bigfoot, but what about
Littlefoot? Certainly, it’s an undeniable fact that many reports emanating from
Britain tell of encounters with not just large and lumbering, hairy entities,
but with distinctly smaller critters, too. Centuries-old Welsh folklore, for
example, tells of the Bwbach, an approximately three foot tall, hair-covered
humanoid perceived by the folk of that era as a brownie or nymph.
Supposedly, like so many of similar ilk, they would
undertake chores and little jobs around the homes of humans, providing they
were the recipients of two things: respect and nourishment, the latter usually
in the form of oats, milk and cream. And they had a deep hatred of those who
avoided alcohol and who led teetotal lives!
Wirt Sikes was U.S. Consul to Wales, a noted expert on Welsh
folklore, and the author of an acclaimed 1880 book, British Goblins. In its
pages, Sikes wrote of the hairy little Bwbach that it: “…is the good-natured
goblin which does good turns for the tidy Welsh maid who wins its favour by a
certain course of behaviour recommended by long tradition. The maid having
swept the kitchen, makes a good fire the last thing at night, and having put
the churn, filled with cream, on the whitened hearth, with a basin of fresh
cream for the Bwbach on the hob, goes to bed to await the event.”
Sikes continued: ”In the morning she finds (if she is in
luck) that the Bwbach has emptied the basin of cream, and plied the
churn-dasher so well that the maid has but to give a thump or two to bring the
butter in a great lump. Like the Ellyll which it so much resembles, the Bwbach
does not approve of dissenters and their ways, and especially strong is its
aversion to total abstainers.”
Source: mysteriousuniverse
GOOD LUCK CURIOSITY
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