Cottage from Wikimedia
Brewery of Eggshells
- Place of Strife (Twt y Cwmrws)
- Man and wife with their twins lived there
- Wife had to leave her twins for a day.
- She saw old elves with blue petticoats
- rushed home to see if her twins were okay and they were
- Over time, noticed the twins didn't grow
- Husband claims the twins aren't their real twins
- This is the strife that the house is named after... the husband and wife fighting
- Wise Man of Llandiloes
- wife went to him for advice
- "When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers. Then listen if the twins say anything. If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children, go back and take them up and throw them into the waters of Lake Ebyr. But if you don't hear anything remarkable, do them no injury."
- She threw those babies into a lake cuz they weren't hers. Stone cold.
- Elves returned her children in exchange for their own.
Bibliography
Brewery of Eggshells from Changeling Legends from the British Isles by Dan Ashliman
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