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British goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions. By: Wirt Sikes illustrated by: T. H. Thomas (in English)
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British goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions. By: Wirt Sikes illustrated by: T. H. Thomas (in English) - Thomas, T. H. ; Sikes, Wirt
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Synopsis "British goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions. By: Wirt Sikes illustrated by: T. H. Thomas (in English)"
William Wirt Sikes (November 23, 1836 - August 18, 1883) was an American journalist and writer, perhaps best known today for his writings on Welsh folklore and customs.William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures.In 1856 he was working at the Utica Morning Herald as a typesetter and contributor. He published a book of stories and poems, A Book for the Winter-Evening Fireside, in 1858. He spent time in Chicago working at newspapers there, and around 1860 worked on a paper called City and Country in Nyack, New York. In 1862 he was given the job of canal inspector in Chicago for the state-owned Illinois and Michigan Canal. While in Chicago he was separated from his wife, by mutual consent; they divorced in 1870.
