Folk-lore of West and Mid-WalesPrinted at the "Welsh gazette" offices, 1911 - 348 sider |
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Side 4
... mother was a descendant of the Princes of South Wales . According to the traditions of Cardiganshire people , Davydd was born at Bro- Gynin , near Gogerddan , in the Parish of Llanbadarn - Fawr , and only a few miles from the spot where ...
... mother was a descendant of the Princes of South Wales . According to the traditions of Cardiganshire people , Davydd was born at Bro- Gynin , near Gogerddan , in the Parish of Llanbadarn - Fawr , and only a few miles from the spot where ...
Side 11
... mother giving a most sad account of what happened to a young woman who did this at Ystrad Meurig in Cardiganshire about the year 1800. She was the daughter of a public house in the village , and the name of her mother was Catherine ...
... mother giving a most sad account of what happened to a young woman who did this at Ystrad Meurig in Cardiganshire about the year 1800. She was the daughter of a public house in the village , and the name of her mother was Catherine ...
Side 12
... mother when I was a boy . A girl had determined to obtain a sight of her future husband by going round the parish church nine times at All Hallows ' Eve in the same manner as the young woman I mentioned in the above story , but with ...
... mother when I was a boy . A girl had determined to obtain a sight of her future husband by going round the parish church nine times at All Hallows ' Eve in the same manner as the young woman I mentioned in the above story , but with ...
Side 16
... mother or other relations , at least we read that it happened so in the case of the heir of Ffynonbedr , near Lampeter , long ago ; for it seems that when he tried to secure the daughter of Dyffryn Llynod , in the parish of Llandyssul ...
... mother or other relations , at least we read that it happened so in the case of the heir of Ffynonbedr , near Lampeter , long ago ; for it seems that when he tried to secure the daughter of Dyffryn Llynod , in the parish of Llandyssul ...
Side 20
... mother's house at Bryntirion , in the parish of Llansadwrn ; and the young woman will be leaving that same morning from the house of her father and mother , that is Pantyblodau , in the parish of Llanwrda . On that morning the shigouts ...
... mother's house at Bryntirion , in the parish of Llansadwrn ; and the young woman will be leaving that same morning from the house of her father and mother , that is Pantyblodau , in the parish of Llanwrda . On that morning the shigouts ...
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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...