Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Edmund Jones
Sikes identifies Edmund Jones of the Tranch as a dissenting minister and pastor near Pontypool. His collection is repeatedly used for Welsh fairy, ghost and portent accounts. Sikes names two books, an account of Aberystruth parish and a relation of apparitions, and criticises errors introduced when later writers cite them indirectly. His discussion makes the path of quotation part of the folklore record.
Also known as Prophet Jones · Jones of the Tranch
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Principal account
DocumentedSikes identifies Edmund Jones of the Tranch as a dissenting minister and pastor near Pontypool. His collection is repeatedly used for Welsh fairy, ghost and portent accounts.
Further detail
DocumentedSikes names two books, an account of Aberystruth parish and a relation of apparitions, and criticises errors introduced when later writers cite them indirectly. His discussion makes the path of quotation part of the folklore record.
Context & interpretation
This entry concerns Sikes’s presentation of Jones and the books he used. Publication dates and biographical judgements remain attributed to Sikes unless separately verified, especially where he corrects earlier writers.
Original passages
Source 1
British Goblins
Edmund JonesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Wirt Sikes, British Goblins (1880), active reader leaf 119
Exact passage checked against active scan text and its original-leaf mapping; whitespace and scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0044-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0044-E001-P0119
- Original scan leaf
- 120
- Recorded leaf number
- 120
- Current Reader position
- 118
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
British Goblins
generally been content to do so at second-handOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Wirt Sikes, British Goblins (1880), active reader leaf 119
Exact passage checked against active scan text and its original-leaf mapping; whitespace and scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0044-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0044-E001-P0119
- Original scan leaf
- 120
- Recorded leaf number
- 120
- Current Reader position
- 118
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed