Folk-Lore of West and Mid-WalesDavies, Jonathan Ceredig
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Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales
Davies, Jonathan Ceredig
Folklore -- Wales; Wales -- Social life and customs
10. Tawlbwrdd (a chess board, or, rather backgammon board), the ground
gold, and the men silver, and the men would play themselves.
11. Mantell (a robe).
12. Modrwy Eluned (the ring of Eluned), whoever put it on his finger
could make himself invisible.
13. Cyllell Llawfrodedd,--which was a kind of knife with which the
Druids killed their victims for sacrifices.
"The story of Merlin and Vivian as told in Brittany," translated from
the French-Breton magazine "L'Hermine," edited by M. Tiercelin, is
given in Part X. of the Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian
Society, from which I give the following short extract--Viviane,
the love-making temptress, had enchanted the enchanter (Merlin). He
sleeps, says the legend, in the forest of Broceliande, vaulted
by an impenetrable hedge, on the bank of the fountain of love,
his head resting on the knees of Viviane; the enchanter enchanted;
and nobody has yet awakened the Celtic Orpheus from his eternal
slumber. "Ne onques puis Merlin ne issit de ceste tour, où sa mie,
Viviane l'avait mis."
PEMBROKESHIRE WOMAN'S PROPHECY FULFILLED.
The following appeared in the "Pembrokeshire County Guardian":--
"About one hundred and sixty years ago, there lived on a farm near
Spittal in Pembrokeshire, a man of the name of David Evans. He
had a family of five children: Thomas, the eldest, was born
on November 3, 1756, and married Sarah Bevan, of Martel Mill,
on Sunday, November 14, 17--, and they lived on a small farm
near Trefgarn Rocks, called Penyfeidr. This Sarah Bevan, or
Mrs. Evans was, like her husband, noted for her piety, and among
her neighbours was possibly more noted for her visions and her
ability to foresee and foretell coming events, of which there
are many reliable records still existing and talked of in the
district to this day. Entering the house one day, she told those
present that she had just seen a most remarkable sight below the
house in Trefgarn Valley, and described it as a large number of
heavily laden carts or waggons going very fast one after the other,
and no bullock or horses drawing them, but the first one appeared
from the smoke she saw, to be on fire. George Stephenson was the
first to introduce steam locomotive power into practical use in
the year 1825. So we may state with certainty that the rustics
of Pembrokeshire had no idea or knowledge whatever of the railway
train at the time that Mrs. Evans saw the vision. About 54 years
ago the railway was brought into Pembrokeshire, and the scheme
of the great engineer, Brunel, was to extend it to the sea shore
near Fishguard. With this in view, much work was accomplished in
cuttings and embankments in Trefgarn Valley, which are now to be
seen there. The country people were jubilant, expecting soon to
realise the prophetic vision. But strong influence was brought to
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