It was reported in the "Aberystwyth Observer" twenty-two years ago, that before the death of Mrs. Fryer, Lady Pryse (now Dowager), noticed a bird hovering around Gogerddan, and at times flapping his wings at the windows. BIRD SINGING HEARD BEFORE DEATH. In the excellent Welsh Magazine "Y Brython" for January, 1860, page 40, the following remarkable incident is given in connection with the death of the famous poet and clergyman, Tegid, which, being translated is as follows:-- "In his absence from Church, when lying on his death-bed, in the morning of the Lord's Day, whilst a neighbouring clergyman was taking the service for him in Llanhyfer Church, the voice of the reader was suddenly drowned by the beautiful song of a thrust, that filled the whole church.... It was ascertained on leaving the church that at that very moment the soul of Tegid left his body for the world of spirits." MUSIC OF ANGELS HEARD BEFORE DEATH. It is stated in the "Cambro-British Saints," page 444, that previous to the death of St. David "the whole city was filled with the music of angels." The Rev. Edmund Jones in his "Apparitions in Wales," says that at the death of one Rees David in Carmarthenshire, "a man of more than common piety," several persons who were in the room heard "the singing of angels drawing nearer and nearer; and after his death they heard the pleasant incomparable singing gradually depart until it was out of hearing." CYHYRAETH: OR DEATH SOUND. The Cyhyraeth was another death portent. It has been described as a wailing or moaning sound heard before a death, and it was thought to be a sound made by a groaning spirit. This spirit was never seen, only its sound was heard. According to "British Goblins" by Sikes, one David Prosser, of Llanybyther, heard the Cyhyraeth pronouncing the words "Woolach! Woolach!" before a funeral. According to the same book "this crying spirit, especially affected the twelve parishes in the hundred of Inis Cenin, which lie on the south-east side of the river Towy, 'where some time past it groaned before the death of every person who lived that side of the country! It also sounded before the death of persons 'who were born in these parishes, but died elsewhere.' "Sometimes, the voice was heard long before death, but not longer than a quarter of a year. So common was it in the district named, that among the people there is a familiar form of reproach to any one making a disagreeable noise, or children crying or groaning unreasonably was to ejaculate 'Oh'r Cyhyraeth!' A reason why Cyhyraeth was more often heard in the hundred of Inis Cenin, was thought to be that Non, the mother of St. David lived in those parts where a village is called after her name Llanon." THE TOLAETH. The Tolaeth is also a sound heard before death or a funeral. It is represented as superstitious rappings, or knockings, strange noises, or sounds of footsteps or of carriages, etc.