A shepherd lad from Mothvey was tending his sheep one afternoon beside Van Lake, in the Black Mountains of Wales, when three fairy maids came out of the water and began to play on the grass.
They were all beautiful, but the youngest was the most beautiful and the shepherd fell madly in love with her.
He won her as his bride and they were married at Mothvey Church.They were all beautiful, but the youngest was the most beautiful and the shepherd fell madly in love with her.
"Now mind," said his new wife "if you ever strike me three times I will return to the lake. "That's one"said the fairy maid.
Not long after they has been invited to a wedding but for all the time they were at the reception the fairy maid did cry. Her husband getting very upset for spoiling the party slapped her again, asking her "why do you cry.""I cry, dear husband for I know this marriage will prove an unhappy one. And I will remind you that you now have struck me twice."
The because became very careful after that, but later in time the good couple were invited to attend a good friends funeral, that of their baby.. But at the funeral, the shepherds wife shocked everybody by singing and dancing. Her husband shocked slapped his wife and asked her, "why ! why!, do you sing and dance, is this a time of rejoicing?
"Yes it is," said the fairy maid. The baby has escaped the sorrows of Earth
and he has entered the Kingdom of Heaven."She sighed, "But that was the third blow. Farewell!" And she ran down to Van Lake and disappeared.
'They do say however, that when her own three sons grew up, she appeared again and gave them three, the gift of healing.'
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