Or Manawydan, from The Mabinogian.
Susan
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Subject: Re: caves
If he was mending shoes, he might have been an elf!
At least according to those folktales!
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From: John K Leonard <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:28:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: caves
Wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it. It sounds like the beginning of a magical children's story by Alan Garner or C. S. Lewis.
John
On 02/17/13, Penny McCarthy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is a cave like that I know in Anglesey. Aged six, I went in with lots of cousins, and we found a man deep inside. As I remembered it, he spoke only Welsh, but we conversed with him; and he was *mending shoes*. So of course later I thought the whole thing was my imagination. But decades later, the aged aunts said: "When was it that the children came running back shrieking 'There's a man in the cave'?"
> It goes a long way back, I discovered later: you have to climb up one side where it seems blocked, and it continues at a higher level. Goodness knows whether it leads to a house: there isn't one about, only Ministry of Defence closed-off land. Sinister, eh?
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> Penny
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