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Reading Part B "Welsh Fairy Tales"

Well, with a fresh round of fairy tales (quite literally in this case, they all have to do with actual fairies) we learn once again that if you have a good thing going with fairies (i.e. they are hooking you up with free money all the time) you do not spoil that by giving away their secret.  First a man named Robert Roberts (really?) kept digging up gold that the fairies hid for him, but after bragging to his friends about it he never found any more gold.  I guess he deserved that?  The other story was about a pretty girl who walked by herself quite often, and the fairies, seeing that she was alone and pretty decided to have compassion on her and so they put coins along her path.  She figured out that it was the fairies doing this, but after her mom found her gold stash and wanted to know where it was coming from, the little girl told her mother that it was the fairies.  Just like that, no more coins.  That's just what happens.
Ok, the next story we have some serious Stockholm syndrome stuff going on.  A man is walking by himself when he happens upon a fairy dancing by herself.  He kidnaps her and drags her off to his home, where he keeps her and "treats her so kindly that she is content to be his maid-servant." They end up married and with kids, which seems wildly inappropriate, but in the end she and her children disappear when the man accidentally throws a piece of iron at her.  Just desserts?
Owl was not happy with the continual guessing games (Source)
Next up we get an eagle whose wife of many years dies tragically, and Eagle, not wanting to live the rest of his life as a widower, seeks to marry Owl.  Only problem is that Owl might still be young enough to have kids, and Eagle, being a considerate creature, does not even want to mess with the whole "whose kids are these anyways" bit, so he tries to find out how old Owl is (apparently asking her is out of the question?).  So he goes first to Stag, who says he has never seen Owl age a day in his life (which was apparently quite long).  I feel like at this point, Eagle should have been tipped off that his bride-to-be was pretty old, and should not have any kids, but this was clearly not enough for Eagle, so he kept asking older and older creatures until we get to Frog.  Frog is so old that the only thing he has ever eaten is dirt (yum!) and has literally pooped out so much dirt that he has single-handedly created rolling hills and a large bog.  Amazing.  Anyway, even Frog doesn't know how old Owl is so Eagle's mind is a last at peace and he marries her.  Very strange story that does not make sense.
I was in a weird mood when I wrote these notes, so please excuse the conversational writing style.
Story Source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. Emerson
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