Cardiff Folk Tales

Cardiff Folk Tales gathers stories rooted in the city’s landscape, communities and long history of oral storytelling. Cath Little ranges from the Celtic Silures who resisted Roman rule to the working people who mined, carried and shipped the coal that transformed Cardiff. The collection also acknowledges the many communities who came from around the world and made the city their home.

Among the accounts are a headless ghost said to haunt the road between Canton and Leckwith, the story of an underworld king’s son who became a saint and gave his name to Llanederyn, and the tale of Billy the Seal, remembered as Victoria Park’s most famous resident. Together, these traditions preserve Cardiff’s changing identity through legend, memory and imagination.