Caergwrle Castle
I was in Hope yesterday, before I walked to the next village, Caergwrle. Wikipedia explains that a myth was developed to explain the name, and that a giant named Gwrle lived at the castle. I visited the castle, but did not find any giants, nor any ghosts at the supposedly haunted bridge in Caergwrle. I did find magical elves though, and a picture of Dafydd on a blue winged horse.
Ffordd Y Tylwyth Teg
Mysterious Wales by Chris Barber tells of Tylwyth Teg, fairy cows and fairy islands.

Southey gives instructions on how to see a fairy island: "If you take a turf from St David's churchyard and stand upon it on the sea shore you behold these islands." I want to try this.

I also want to visit Llyn Barfog, "The Lake of the Bearded One", which takes its name from the hairy plants on the water. Barber says, "Stories are told of fairies dancing on the lake side. A farmer once caught a fairy cow here and took it home. He succeeded in mating it with a Dyffryn bull. Years later when the fairy cow became old he called in the butcher but as she was about to be slaughtered, a voice called from the crags of Mynydd-y-llyn. 'Come yellow Anvil, Stray Horns, Speckled one of the lake and hornless Dodin. Arise, come home.' On the hillside was a green woman waving her arm. The cow sped away with her family and was never seen again."

After concluding that none of the fairies mentioned in Mysterious Wales were sighted near Wrexham, I decided to visit Ffordd y Tylwyth Teg (Fairy Road). Evidence that I found included an empty miniature bottle of lemon essence, obviously drunk by fairies, and on a nearby road, a Best of Dance 2004 CD.

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