Folk-lore of West and Mid-WalesPrinted at the "Welsh gazette" offices, 1911 - 348 sider |
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... door if he cared to undertake it . His accurate knowledge of Welsh gave him great facility for the work . He took up the idea , and this book is the result of his labours . The main object has been to collect " verbatim ,
... door if he cared to undertake it . His accurate knowledge of Welsh gave him great facility for the work . He took up the idea , and this book is the result of his labours . The main object has been to collect " verbatim ,
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... door wide open , through which an animal rushed wildly out , which he took for his horse . He ran after the animal for hours , but at daybreak , to his great disappointment , found that he had been running after a bull ! Another common ...
... door wide open , through which an animal rushed wildly out , which he took for his horse . He ran after the animal for hours , but at daybreak , to his great disappointment , found that he had been running after a bull ! Another common ...
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... door each time whilst going round , and many people assert to this very day that whoever performed this mode of divination in proper order , that the spirit of his or her future wife or husband would appear with a sheath to fit the ...
... door each time whilst going round , and many people assert to this very day that whoever performed this mode of divination in proper order , that the spirit of his or her future wife or husband would appear with a sheath to fit the ...
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... door is placed on the 16th verse of the 1st Chapter of Ruth : - " And Ruth said , intreat me not to leave thee , or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest , I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy ...
... door is placed on the 16th verse of the 1st Chapter of Ruth : - " And Ruth said , intreat me not to leave thee , or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest , I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy ...
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... door of each guest and entered the house amidst the smiles of the old people and the giggling of the young . Then he would take his stand in the centre of the house , and strike the floor with his staff to enforce silence , and announce ...
... door of each guest and entered the house amidst the smiles of the old people and the giggling of the young . Then he would take his stand in the centre of the house , and strike the floor with his staff to enforce silence , and announce ...
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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...