Fairy Tales & Folklore
Shon ap Shenkin Returns Home
Two men face one another at a cottage doorway. The younger visitor extends his hands, while an older man stands partly inside the shadowed entrance. Ivy covers the wall and climbs around the sloping roof. The caption identifies Shon ap Shenkin’s return. The preceding page tells of his absorption in a bird’s song and discovery that the tree and house have aged. The next page reveals that the stranger is his nephew, and ends with Shon crumbling into dust before their embrace. The full illustration and caption remain together. The image captures the recognition scene within this narrated distortion of time, without treating that event as historical fact.
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T. H. Thomas (book illustration credit). "Shon ap Shenkin Returns Home" [editorial title]. In British Goblins, Wirt Sikes; illustrations by T. H. Thomas. 1880, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Source scan leaf 109. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/british-goblins-plate-108
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full source scan, printed caption and nearby prose actually viewed. Complete image boundary, caption and visible signatures preserved. Crop from checksum-verified private R2 reader derivative; no recolouring or reconstruction.
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T. H. Thomas (book illustration credit). Shon ap Shenkin Returns Home. British Goblins. Scan leaf 109. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/british-goblins-plate-108