He also heard the sound of a bugle-horn winding in the air, and there seemed to be invisible hunters riding by. He then began to be afraid, but recollected his having heard that any person seeing Gwyllion may drive them away by drawing out a knife. So he drew out his knife, and the fairies vanished directly. If so, there again we touch the primeval world. Among the traditions of the origin of the Gwyllion one which associates them with goats.
Goats are in Wales held in peculiar esteem for their supposed occult intellectual powers.
They are believed to be on very good terms with the Tylwyth Teg, and possessed of more knowledge than their appearance indicates. It is one of the peculiarities of the Tylwyth Teg that every Friday night they comb the goats' beards to make them decent for Sunday. At last his Welsh blood got so hot, as the goat eluded him again and again, that he flung a stone at her, which knocked her over a precipice, and she fell bleating to her doom. The moon rose, and still he sat there. As for the hand, though it looked so fair, it felt just like a hoof.