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Faust and Mephistopheles
– a deal with the devil –
~ mythology unleashed ~

…an 11 minute video

“Disillusioned with life itself, and wanting more, renowned scholar Faust dabbles in the dark arts and succeeds in summoning the devil Mephistopheles. The two make a bargain: Mephistopheles would serve Faust dutifully, grant him anything that his heart desired, but at the end of the term, Faust would be condemned to Hell. Faust accepts the terms…but are all of the pleasures of the world worth the price of his very soul?” (mythology unleashed)

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Ellyllon

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In Welsh folklore, the Ellyllon are ethereal fairies or light-elves who dwell in woodlands, hillsides, and hollowed-out trees. Though often described as delicate and luminous beings, their beauty hides a deeper mystery. They are known to whisper in dreams, confuse travelers, or enchant mortals with riddles and illusions. Some say they feed on toadstools and drink dew from forest leaves. While they may seem gentle, the Ellyllon exist on the edge of our world and theirs – neither wholly good nor evil.

The Ellyllon: The Tiny Elves of the Welsh Valleys and the Rules They Lived By

“The Ellyllon, the elves of the Welsh valleys and groves, were all of these things. They were the most commonly encountered members of the Tylwyth Teg, the Fair Family, in the everyday experience of ordinary Welsh people. Not the grand, terrible figures of the Otherworld like Gwyn ap Nudd, not the lake maidens with their dangerous beauty and impossible conditions, but the small, purposeful, endlessly busy presences that inhabited the margins of the human world and took a keen and opinionated interest in how that world was run.

~ understanding the Ellyllon means understanding something fundamental about how Welsh communities encoded their deepest values in supernatural form
~ these were not whimsical creatures from a children’s story; they were, in the most literal sense, the moral enforcers of the Welsh household, and the rules they lived by were the rules that kept communities alive
~ the name Ellyllon is the plural of ellyll, a Welsh word that carries connotations of a spirit or phantom of the wild places
~ Ellyllon were the fairy beings most closely associated with the groves, dingles, and valley floors of the Welsh landscape
~ to encounter an ellyll was to see a creature of extraordinary contrast: barely the size of an agate stone, yet dressed with the precision and elegance of a royal courtier
~ their robes were blue, white, or scarlet: colours of deliberate formality, and their accessories were drawn from the natural world in ways that showed a sophisticated understanding of proportion: the bells of the foxglove served as gloves, known in Welsh as menyg ellyllon, the foxglove fingers, a detail so specific and so charming that it passed into the permanent vocabulary of Welsh plant lore
~ the Ellyllon were workers
~ extraordinarily capable, tireless, and precise workers who could accomplish in a single night what would take a human household many hours of laborious effort: baking, brewing, spinning, mending, the churning of butter and the kneading of bread – all of this was within their capability, and they would deploy that capability in the service of a household that had earned their assistance
~ the conditions for earning that assistance were specific and non-negotiable:
– The household must maintain a clean and orderly kitchen
– the hearth must be swept and the fire properly tended
– a bowl of cream must be left on the hob before the household retired for the night
– this was the Ellyllon’s fee, their share of the household’s produce, and it was expected as a matter of course rather than offered as a special gift
– a household that forgot or neglected this offering was a household that had broken the first term of the contract
– and then there was the condition that proved, in story after story, to be the most difficult to maintain: privacy
– the Ellyllon worked in secret
source, and to read more: The Ellyllon: The Tiny Welsh Elves and Their Unbreakable Rules

If you want to read more: British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legend… | Internet Sacred Text Archive I will more than likely be sharing this and other stories in the future, so no worries.

II. The Ellyllon are the pigmy elves who haunt the groves and valleys, and correspond pretty closely with the English elves. The English name was probably derived from the Welsh el, a spirit, elf, an element; there is a whole brood of words of this class in the Welsh language, expressing every variety of flowing, gliding, spirituality, devilry, angelhood, and goblinism. Ellyllon (the plural of ellyll), is also doubtless allied with the Hebrew Elilim, having with it an identity both of origin and meaning. [Pughe’s ‘Welsh Dictionary.’ (Denbigh, 1866)] The poet Davydd ab Gwilym, in a humorous account of his troubles in a mist in the year 1340, says:

Yr ydoedd ym mhob gobant
Ellyllon mingeimion gant.
There was in every hollow
A hundred wrymouthed elves.

I am deeply intrigued by anything Welsh. The Morris side of my family comes from Wales.

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