FAIRY DRESS, DWELLING, ETC. The Fairies were small handsome creatures in human form; very kind to, and often showered benefits on those who treated them kindly, but most revengeful towards those who dared to treat them badly. They were dressed in green, and very often in white, and some of their maidens were so beautiful, that young men sometimes would fall over head and ears in love with them, especially whilst watching them dancing on a moonlight night; for the old belief was concerning the Fairies, that on moonlight nights they were wont to join hands, and form into circles, and dance and sing with might and main until the cock crew, then they would vanish. The circles in the grass of green fields are still called "Cylchau y Tylwyth Teg" (Fairy Rings). These circles were numerous in Wales when I was a boy; and it was believed by many about forty years ago, if not later that some misfortune would befall any person entering these circles, for I well remember being warned to keep away from them. At the present time, however, I do not know of any person who is afraid of entering them; so it seems that the superstition respecting the Fairy Rings has entirely died out during the last generation. As to their dwellings, the Fairies were "things under the earth," for they were generally supposed to dwell in the lower regions, especially beneath lakes, where their country towns and castles were situated; and the people on the coasts of Pembrokeshire imagined that they inhabited certain enchanted green isles of the sea. The green meadows of the sea, called in the old Welsh Triads Gwerddonau Llion, are the: "Green fairy islands, reposing, In sunlight and beauty on ocean's calm breast." A British King in ancient times, whose name was Garvan is said to have sailed away in search of these islands, and never returned. Garvan's voyage is commemorated in the Triads as one of the "Three Losses by Disappearance." Southey after citing Dr. W. O. Pughe's article in the "Cambrian Biography," goes on as follows:--