Folk-lore of West and Mid-WalesPrinted at the "Welsh gazette" offices, 1911 - 348 sider |
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Side 24
... field in the evening expecting to find a mole entrapped in it next morning . Next morning came , and off went the old man to see the trap , but when he arrived on the spot , to his great surprise , instead of a mole in the trap , there ...
... field in the evening expecting to find a mole entrapped in it next morning . Next morning came , and off went the old man to see the trap , but when he arrived on the spot , to his great surprise , instead of a mole in the trap , there ...
Side 58
... field , raise high my grave , Vinvela . Grey stones , and heaped earth , shall mark me to future times . " To erect mounds seems to have been a very ancient custom , for Herodotus , in giving a full and most interesting account of the ...
... field , raise high my grave , Vinvela . Grey stones , and heaped earth , shall mark me to future times . " To erect mounds seems to have been a very ancient custom , for Herodotus , in giving a full and most interesting account of the ...
Side 73
... field . It is said that it was customary in that particular part of West Wales , especially at Tenby , to walk barefooted to Church , and that such Pre - Reformation custom continued till the close of the eighteenth century , which was ...
... field . It is said that it was customary in that particular part of West Wales , especially at Tenby , to walk barefooted to Church , and that such Pre - Reformation custom continued till the close of the eighteenth century , which was ...
Side 78
... fields on the same day so that they might be able to assist each other . A few men would come together on an appointed day from each farm in the district that they might be able to cut and bind all the corn of one farm in a single day ...
... fields on the same day so that they might be able to assist each other . A few men would come together on an appointed day from each farm in the district that they might be able to cut and bind all the corn of one farm in a single day ...
Side 79
... field , and tied up carefully ; and great excitement existed , and much amusement was created when the last standing was reached . There was a good deal of fun in connection with cutting the mare . Each reaper in his turn was allowed to ...
... field , and tied up carefully ; and great excitement existed , and much amusement was created when the last standing was reached . There was a good deal of fun in connection with cutting the mare . Each reaper in his turn was allowed to ...
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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...