Folk-lore of West and Mid-WalesPrinted at the "Welsh gazette" offices, 1911 - 348 sider |
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Side vii
... appeared in the " Cambrian Briton " 1822 , is of special interest . Mrs. Loxdale , of Castle Hill , showed me a fine silver cup which had been presented to this celebrated poet . I have also a chapter on Fairies ; but as I found that ...
... appeared in the " Cambrian Briton " 1822 , is of special interest . Mrs. Loxdale , of Castle Hill , showed me a fine silver cup which had been presented to this celebrated poet . I have also a chapter on Fairies ; but as I found that ...
Side 13
... appeared fresh , it was a good omen ; the girl was to marry within that same year ; but , on the other hand , if the leaves were dead , it was a sign that the girl should die , or at least she was not to marry that year . THE BIBLE AND ...
... appeared fresh , it was a good omen ; the girl was to marry within that same year ; but , on the other hand , if the leaves were dead , it was a sign that the girl should die , or at least she was not to marry that year . THE BIBLE AND ...
Side 14
... appearing , except in the case of the young woman just mentioned . DIVINATION BY THE TEA - CUP . Tea - cup divination is also very much practised by young girls in Wales in order to find out some future events concerning love affairs ...
... appearing , except in the case of the young woman just mentioned . DIVINATION BY THE TEA - CUP . Tea - cup divination is also very much practised by young girls in Wales in order to find out some future events concerning love affairs ...
Side 18
... appeared in a a Welsh Quarterly " Y Beirniad , " for July , 1878 , gives a characteristic account of a typical Bidder of a much later date in Carmarthenshire : - .. Am Tomos fel gwahoddwr , yr wyf yn ei weled yn awr o flaen llygaid fy ...
... appeared in a a Welsh Quarterly " Y Beirniad , " for July , 1878 , gives a characteristic account of a typical Bidder of a much later date in Carmarthenshire : - .. Am Tomos fel gwahoddwr , yr wyf yn ei weled yn awr o flaen llygaid fy ...
Side 22
... n y gornel . " The above has been translated into English by one Mair Arfon as follows , and appeared in " Cymru Fu , " Cardiff , August 9th , 1888 , - WHS " Here's Stephen the Bidder ! Good day to 222 Wedding Customs .
... n y gornel . " The above has been translated into English by one Mair Arfon as follows , and appeared in " Cymru Fu , " Cardiff , August 9th , 1888 , - WHS " Here's Stephen the Bidder ! Good day to 222 Wedding Customs .
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Aberystwyth According ancient apparition appeared believed bird Brython buried called Cardigan Cardiganshire Carmarthen Carmarthenshire Church churchyard conjurer customary Cwrtycadno dance daughter David Davies death door dream Einion Evans Fairies farm farmer father Fishguard friends funeral ghost girl hand haunted heard horse husband ifanc informed John John the Red Jones King known lady lake Lampeter late lived Llan Llanarth Llanddewi Brefi Llandilo Llandyssul Llangeler Llanilar Llanpumpsaint Lledrod Lord maiden married Merlin miles morning mother mountain Myddfai named neighbour neighbourhood Newcastle Emlyn night occasion old Welsh old woman once Owen parish Pembrokeshire person Pontrhydfendigaid present day Radnorshire Rhys road round says seen servant shire singing Sir Dafydd spirit spot stone story strange supposed Thomas told took tradition Tregaron Vicar wedding Welsh West Wales whilst wife Williams witch wizard young woman yr oedd Ystrad Meurig
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Side 3 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Side 54 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Side 311 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Side 136 - People who know very little of arts or sciences, or the powers of nature, (which, in other .words, are the powers of the author of nature,) will laugh at us Cardiganshire miners, who maintain the existence of knockers in mines, a kind of good-natured impalpable people, not to be seen, but heard, and who seem to us to work in the mines ; that is to say they are the types, or forerunners of working in mines, as dreams are of some accidents which happen to us.
Side 137 - ... more of them. These are odd assertions, but they are certainly facts, although we cannot, and do not, pretend to account for them. We have now...
Side 3 - The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the threemewed falcon was not brighter than hers. Her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek was redder than the reddest roses.
Side 223 - Far, far, far away, is a land of woe, darkness, spirits of evil, and fire. Day by day does the little bird bear in his bill a drop of water to quench the flame. So near to the burning stream does he fly that his dear little feathers are scorched ; and hence he is named Bron-rhuddyn (ie, breast* Choice Notes, p.
Side 33 - Go and lie in wait in the vineyards ; and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Side 137 - The miners have a notion that the knockers are of their own tribe and profession, and are a harmless people who mean well. Three or four miners together shall hear them sometimes, but if the miners stop to take notice of them, the knockers will also stop ; but let the miners go on at their own work, suppose it is boring...
Side 103 - ... only to his mother, declaring to her the manners, nature, and state of that people. Being desired by her to bring a present of gold, with which that region abounded, he stole...