Celtic Tomes

Intermission and Book Choice Show - CT034

Next Book for Celtic Tomes We announce that Celtic Tomes is taking a small break while we move house and offer you five amazing books to choose from. Have a listen and decide which book we will read for you when we return after the house move! You can make your choice by sending us an email (see the link above on our shownotes page at cetictomes.libsynm.com), making a comment here on our Shownotes, making your choice on the Polls we manage to set up on Facebook, Twitter etc. You can vote as many times as you like, and all the votes will be counted up and we'll let you know the scores in the first show of the next Book reading.

The Five books to choose from are:

1. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, T. W. Rolleston (1911)

2. Religion of the Ancient Celts, J. A. McCulloch (1911)

3. Myth & Folklore of Ireland, Jeremiah Curtin (1889)

4. Fairy & Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, W. B. Yeats (1888)

5. Welsh Fairy Tales, William E. Griffiths (1921)

Which of these would you like us to read next?

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Baleful Storm Spirits

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 5

by Wirt Sikes

Baleful Storm Spirits, is all about the spirits of thunder and lightning, hidden treasure and the dragons of Wales. Sikes tells us the story of the Red Lady of Paviland caves and the Treasure Chest under Moel Arthur, the Cavern of the Ravens and the origin of the Red Dragon of Wales.

Running Order:

• Baleful Storm Spirits 1:48
• The Shower at the Magic Fountain 2:31
• Obstacles in the Way of Treasure-Seekers 4:03
• The Red Lady of Paviland 4:46
• The Fall of Coychurch Tower 5:23
• Thunder and Lightning evoked by Digging 6:21
• The Treasure Chest under Moel Arthur in the Vale of Clwyd 7:32
• Modern Credulity 8:36
• The Cavern of the Ravens 10:36
• The Eagle-guarded Coffer of Castell Coch 12:03
• Sleeping Warriors as Treasure-Guarders 15:38
• The Dragon which St. Samson drove out of Wales 16:52
• Dragons in the Mabinogion 17:48
• Whence came the Red Dragon of Wales? 18:14
• The Original Dragon of Mythology 19:41
• Prototypes of Welsh Caverns and Treasure-Hills 20:27
• The Goblins of Electricity 21:42

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.

Paviland Coychurch Tower Moel Arthur Vale of Clwyd Castell Coch St. Samson Sir Kai Arthur Sir Owain Dr. Buckland Constantine St. Crallo Caerau, Cardiganshire Crochan aur Herald Cymraeg Pant-y-Saer crmlech, Anglesea John Jones, Llandudno Isaac JonesGiraldus Kemeys Pembrokeshire St. Bernacus Glamorganshire Ogof Cigfrain Peidiwch! Lord Bute Nantyglyn Yehain Banog Hu gadarn Draig Owen Lawgoch Mynydd Mawr, Carmarthenshire Craig-y-Ddinas Caerleon, Monmouthshire Hesperides Payshtha-more O'Rourke Cadwaladr Thomas Stephens Merddin Nennius Geoffrey Mr. Conway Vortigern

The Red Dragon of Wales

Taliesin Gwion Bach Satanas Klakkr clû Odin Prince Ahmed Poseidon

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Early Inscribed Stones

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 4

by Wirt Sikes

Early Inscribed Stones tells us all about famous stones that dance, superstitions about rocking stones, and Cromlechs. Sikes tells us the story of the Sagranus Stone and the White Lady, and how humans can be turned into stone. He finishes by telling us about the fairy legends, and the fairy castle at St. Nicholas.

Running Order:

• Early Inscribed Stones 1:50
• The Stone Pillar of Banwan Bryddin, near Neath 3:54
• Catastrophe accompanying its Removal 5:04
• The Sagranus Stone and the White Lady 5:52
• The Dancing Stones of Stackpool 6:39
• Human Beings changed to Stones 7:17
• St. Ceyna and the Serpents 9:39
• The Devil's Stone at Llanarth 11:21
• Rocking Stones and their accompanying Superstitions 12:59
• The Suspended Altar of Loin-Garth 13:31
• Cromlechs and their Fairy Legends 14:53
• The Fairies' Castle at St. Nicholas, Glamargonshire 15:40
• The Stone of the Wolf Bitch 17:00
• The Welsh Melusine 17:32
• Parc y Bigwrn Cromlech 18:50
• Connection of these Stones with Ancient Druidism 20:01

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.

Banwan Bryddin Sagranus Stone St. Ceyna Llanarth Loin-Garth St. Nicholas, Glamargonshire Melusine (french) Parc y Bigwrn Maen Llythyrog Margam Abbey, Glamorganshire 'Marci Caritini Filii Bericii' Lady Mackworth Rev. Mr. Williams Tir-y-Cwm Gnoll Gardens 'Dur'n catwo ni!' Cymro or Saeson Sagranus Stone at St. Dogmell's, Pembrokeshire Stackpool Warren Horestone Park Sais's Fpord Moelfre Hill, Carnarvonshire Llandyfrydog, Anglesea Carreg y Lleidr Rolldritch (Rhwyldrech?) Prince Brychan, Breconshire River Severn Camden Bristol Keynsham Cornu Ammonis Llanarth, Aberaeron, Cardignashire Diawl Mecca Pontypridd Nennius Loin-garth, Gower St. Illtyd Frennifawr

Fairy Frolic at the Cromlech

Castle Correg Korreds & korregs Haute Auvergne Pirols fée Melusina Gast Rhymhi 'Ange par la figure, et serpent par la reste' Pressina Kilhwch and Olwen Parc-y-Bigwrn, Llanboidy, Carmarethenshire John Jones

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Legendary Welsh Stones

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 3

by Wirt Sikes

Ancient Welsh stones that could move about by themselves and how the Saxon King Edgar the Peaceable passed a law forbidding Stone Worship. How stones could be linked to water, such as the healing powers of Canna's Chair which only worked after drinking from St. Canna's Well. Sikes also tells us about Talking Stones, Expanding Stones and the Stone of Invisibility which is one of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain.

Running Order:

• Personal Attributes of Legendary Welsh Stones 1:46
• Stone Worship 2:43
• Canna's Stone Chair 3:40
• Miraculous Removals of Stones 4:45
• The Walking Stone of Eitheinn 5:32
• The Thigh Stone 6:26
• The Talking Stone in Pembrokeshire 7:47
• The Expanding Stone 9:12
• Magic Stones in the 'Mabinogion' 10:07
• The Stone of Invisibility 10:15
• The Stone of Remembrance 11:29
• Stone Thief-catchers 12:45
• Stones of Healing 14:09
• Stones at Cross-roads 15:40
• Memorials of King Arthur 17:19
• Round Tables, Carns, Pots, etc. 17:38
• Arthur's Quoits 19:14
• The Gigantic Ross-tossers of Old 19:49
• Mol Walbec and the Pebble in her Show 20:25
• The Giant of Trichrug 22:10
• Giants and the Mythology of the Heavens 23:21
• The Legend of Rhitta Gawr 24:00

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.

Canna Eitheinn Mol Walbec Trichrug Rhitta Gawr Edgar the Peacable Canute Carmarthenshire Canna's Stone

Saint Canna's Chair

Llangan Ffynon Canna Parc y Fontwent 'Llangan, dyma'r fan' (Llangan, here is the spot' Nennius Anglesea Cerevus Menai Builth King Arthur Cabal Troynt Carn Cabal Giraldus Maen Morddwyd Hugh, Earl of Chester King Henry I Llechlafar River Alyn St. David's Church, Pembrokeshire St. Gowan's Chapel Caerleon, Monmouthshire Ring of Luned Owen, son of Urien Ring of Gyges Rhonabwy Iddawc Peredur Etlym St. David's, Llanfaes Mowddwy St. Tydecho Maelgwyn Gwynedd Maenhir Dysgwylfa Crumlyn, Monmouthshire Llanberis Canrig Bwt Adrian Denbighshire Llanfihangel Dolwillim River Tawe Merlin River Sawdde Llangadock Mynydd Du Pen Arthur Cader Idris Dolgelly Machynlleth Castle of Hay Llowes Churchyard Hu Gadarn Cadwaladr Rhitta Gawr Brutus Idris Gawr Cymry Côr Gawr Killara Cardiganshire Gwydion Gwyn, son of Nudd

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Mystic Wells

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 4 Chapter 2

by Wirt Sikes

All about the beheading of St. Winnifred and the mystic well that sprang up where her head fell. How the waters of mystic wells can be either beneficent or malicious - they can cure diseases, mental or physical, as well as curing love-sickness. Sikes also tells us sooe of the stories associated with Barry Island.

Running Order:

• Their Good and Bad Dispositions 1:46
• St. Winifred's Well 4:48
• The Legend of St. Winnifred 6:35
• Miracles 9:28
• St. Tecla's Well 11:50
• St. Dwynwen's 12:44
• Curing Love Sickness 13:00
• St. Cynfran's 14:30
• St. Cynhafal's 15:23
• Throwing Pins in Wells 15:32
• Warts 15:36
• Barry Island and its Legends 17:08
• Ffynon Gwynwy 20:22
• Propitiary Gifts to Wells 21:02
• The Dreadful Cursing Well of St. Elian's 23:09
• Wells Flowing with Milk 25:34
• St. Illtyd's 25:50
• Tafi's Well 28:40
• Sanford's Well 29:31
• Origins of Superstitions of this Class 30:48

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronounciations right for you.

St. Winifred St. Tecla St. Cynfran St. Cynhafal Barry Island Ffynon Gwynwy St. Elian's St. Illtyd's Tafi Sanford Lourdes, France Cambria Ffynon Mair (Well of Mary) Holywell Duke of Westminster Drayton St. Winifred, or Gwenfrewi Elerius Robert of Salop Cotton MSS. Caradoc St. Beino Lethean Denbighshire Gwern Degla Llandegla Llandwyn, Anglesea Dan Cupid Ffynon Dwynwen (Fountain of Venus) Iolo MSS. Seithenhin the Drunkard Aphrodite 'Rhad Duw a Chynfran lwydd ar y da!' (the grace of God and blessed Cynfran on the cattle) Brychan Abergeleu St. George's Well Pennant Mars Llangynhafal parish, Denbighshire Gloucestershire Barry Island, near Cardiff St. Barruc, or Barri Lord Windsor St. Cadoc Gwalches Merlin Camarthen Etna Stromboli Typhonn Vulcan Camden Malkin Ffynon Gwynwy, near Llangelyniin church, Carnarvonshire Archaeologia Cambrensis Pliny Clitumnus Cyff-elian Llanelian, Denbighshire Penrhos Gower, near Swansea John the Baptist Canute River Taff Newton Nottage, Glamorganshire

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

The Powers of Bells

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 6

by Wirt Sikes

In this chapter, we learn that the sound of Brass bells can break enchantments, how they could exorcise spirits and even foretell storms. Sikes also tells us the story of how a stolen Church Bell was carried home to Wales by a very determined horse.

• Base of the Primeval Mythology 0:54
• Bells and their Ghosts 1:36
• The Bell that committed Murder and was damned for it 3:55
• The Occult Powers of Bells 7:32
• Their Work as Detectives, Doctors, etc. 9:43
• Legend of the Bell of Rhayader 11:24
• St. Illtyd's Wonderful Bell 14:20
• The Golden Bell of Llandaff 14:32

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Rhayader St. Illtyd Llandaff Mississipi Aberdovey Crumlyn Langorse Pool, Breconshire Trefethin St. Cadoc Llewellyn ap Iorweth, Lord of Caerleo Caerleon, Monmouthshire Bangu Llanfair Duffryn Clwyd Pembrokeshire St. Paul's Cromwellian St. David's Ramsey Sound Glamorgan River Taf Llantwit Major King Arthur St. Oudoceus

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Death and Burial

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 7

by Wirt Sikes

Find out all the customs about food and drinking, especially Beer, by a coffin, how important Salt is, the Sin-Eater (and whether the stories are true or not), the Scapegoat and Welsh funeral possessions. We learn about praying at crossroads where criminals may have been buried. Sikes also tells us about the Grassless Grave and the Parson's Offerings.

• Death and Burial 1:50
• The Gwylnos 2:49
• Beer-Drinking at Welsh Festivals 3:24
• Food and Drink over the Coffin 3:56
• Sponge Cakes at Modern Funerals 6:00
• The Sin-Eater 6:45
• Welsh Denial that this Custom ever existed 7:48
• The Testimony concerning it 8:08
• Plate of Salt on Corpse's Breast 12:07
• Superstitions regarding Salt 15:05
• The Scapegoat 17:32
• The St. Tegla Cock and Hen 18:13
• Welsh Funeral Processions 19:51
• Praying at Crossroads 20:29
• Superstition regarding Criminals' Graves 20:44
• Hanging and Welsh Prejudice 21:03
• The Grassless Graves 22:40
• Parson's Penny, or Offrwm 24:40
• Old Shows to the Clerk 25:59
• Arian y Rhaw, or Spade Money 26:32
• Burials without Coffin 29:06
• The Sul Coffa 30:07
• Planting and Strewing Graves with flowers 32:28

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

• Gwylnos
• St Tegla
• Offrwm
• Arian y Rhaw
• Sul Coffa
• Pennant
• Thomas Myddleton
• Coranich
• 'cum mago dolore et clamore cognatorum et propinquorum omnium'
• 'Claddu y marw ac at y cwrw' (To bury the dead, and to the beer')
• Cymru Fu
• Cwrw brwd

Pic: Giving Food over the Coffin

• Llancaiach
• Servis & Humphrey
• Rev. E. L. Barnwell
• Malkin
• John Aubrey
• Lansdwone Mss.
• Hereford
• Rosse
• 'ipso facto'
• Dynder (nolens volens)
• Brecon
• Llangors
• Mr. Gwin
• Bishop White Kennet
• Amersden, Oxford
• Ludlow
• Mr. Matthew Moggridge, Swansea
• Llandebie
• Chepstow
• Mr. Allen, Pembrokeshire
• Mr. E. A. Freeman
• Mr. Eugene Schulyer
• iskatchi
• Cardiganshire
• Cardiff
• Aaron
• Wrexham & Ruthin, Llandegla
• Clwyf y Tegla
• Pater Noster
• Metellus, conqueror of Macedon
• Montgomeryshire
• John Newton
• Welshpool
• Defynog, Breconshire
• Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant
• 'cyfneseifiaid' (next-of-kin)
• 'yr hen glochydd'
• 'cadach deupen
• Richard Griffith, Trefeglwys
• Thomas Dinelly
• Ivan the Harper
• Williams of Merllyn
• Richard the Harper
• Llanfwrog
• Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Stone)
• Toriad y Dydd (the Dawn)
• Glamorganshire
• Cymbeline
• Milford Haven
• Fidele

Pic: Dafydd y Garreg Wen

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Wedding Customs

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 6

by Wirt Sikes

Ancient Wedding Customs of the Welsh, including the custom of bidding for wedding gifts and the importance of the person doing the Bidding! We learn how to steal a Bride away and how to reform a wife who hen-pecks her husband.

• Wedding Customs 0:54
• The Bidding 1:36
• The Gwahoddwr 3:55
• Forms of Cymmhorth 7:32
• Horse-Weddings 9:43
• Stealing of a Bride 11:24
• Obstructions to the Bridal Party 14:20
• The Gwyntyn 14:32
• Chaining 15:10
• Evergreen Arches 16:56
• Strewing Flowers 17:45
• Throwing Rice and Shoes 18:00
• Rosemary in the Garden 20:22
• Names after Marriage 23:36
• The Coolstrin 24:10
• The Ceffyl Pren 27:49

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Cymmhorth Gwahoddwr Gwyntyn Coolstrin Ceffyl Pren Pembroke, Cardigan and Carmarthen Cardiff Ty'r Bwci Llanfair ar y Bryn Owen Gwynt Elen Morgan Llewelyn & Margaret Gwynt Evan Gwyn, Maes y Blodau Gwladys & Hannah Mary Bowen, Llwyn y Fedwen, llannon Rhys Morgan, Castell y Moch Howel, Gruffydd, & Gwenllian Morgan Pant y Clacwydd Llansadwrn Cwrw da Nos Blaen Priodas Cymmhorth Cyfarfod Cymmhorth Merry Andrew

Pic: The Old-Time Gwahoddwr

Carmarthenshire Glamorganshire Malkin 'toujours trop tard' 'Les Brigands'

Gwrando, leidr hoyw'r ddafad, Ai ti sydd yma heddyw'n geidwad? Ai dyna y rheswmcloi y drysau Rhag dwyn y wreigan liw dydd goleu

Sketty Sabines Apuleius Sabine Virgins Rector of Merthyr Tenby Herefordshire Lampeter Mr. & Mrs. Jones of Glandennis Roberts of the Dingle Williams of Pwlldu Jones of Nevada John Thomas Betty Willkiams Dick Shon skimitry or skimmington Clos (breeches) Breconshire

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Courtship and Marriage

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 5

by Wirt Sikes

Welsh customs of courtship and marriage. Sikes tells us about the Welsh Goddess of Love, later known as St. Dwynwen and how commonplace was the Welsh custom of 'Bundling' or 'courting abed'! We learn about romantic divination and how a Maid may find herself in trouble with the fairies if she is not a 'true maid'. He finishes the chapter by discussing divination by the Knife and the Sheath!

• Courtship and Marriage 0:55
• Planting Weeds and Rue on the Graves of Old Bachelors 2:23
• Special Significance of Flowers in connection with virginity 3:24
• The Welsh Venus 4:30
• Bundling, or Courting Abed 6:25
• Kissing Schools 10:28
• Rhamanta 11:10
• Lovers' Superstitions 11:20
• The Maid's Trick 11:35
• Dreaming on a Mutton Bone 13:10
• Wheat and Shovel 13:35
• Garters in a Lovers' Knot 14:14
• Egg-Shell Cake 14:40
• Sowing Leeks 15:30
• Twca and Sheath 16:33

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Rhamanta Twca and Sheath Howell the Good Dwynwen, daughter of Brychan

St. Dwynwen - Artwork © Jonathon Earl Bowser – www.JonathonArt.com

Anglesea Thomas Stephens Sopen, sypio Pontypool Caru yn y gwelu (courting abed)

Bundling, or Courting Abed

Myrdim, Carmarthenshire Pemrokeshire Glamorganshire

Y sawl sydd i gydfydio, Doed i gydgribinio!

'Dyma'r twca, p'le mae'r wain?' (Here's the twca, where's the sheath?)

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.

Welsh Christmas

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 4

by Wirt Sikes

All about bell-ringing competitions between villages at Christmas time, the 'Pipes of the Watch' who wake the echoes in the early morning. We also hear about the games, music and Eisteddfodau of Christmas. Sikes tells us about the origins of Boxing Day and the Druid feast of Alban Arthur, celebrated at the Winter Solstice.

• Nadolig, the Welsh Christmas 1:35
• Bell-ringing 3:13
• Carols 4:20
• Dancing to the Music of the Waits 6:37
• An Evening in Carmarthenshire 8:44
• Shenkin Harry, the Preacher, and the Jig Tune 12:26
• Welsh Morality 13:03
• Eisteddfodau 14:26
• Decorating Houses and Churches 16:04
• The Plygain 17:40
• The Colliers Star 18:47
• he Christmas Thriftbox 19:24
• Pagan Origin of Christmas 21:52

Names Used in this Section

All proper names, and words in Welsh or other languages, are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Nadolig Shenkin Harry Eisteddfodau Plygain Arthur & Merlin Waits (band of wandering musicians)

Bell-Ringing

Cowbridge Aberdare Penarth St. Fagan's Llantrisant Llanblethian ayont the twal Bacchus Glamorganshire Rev. Evan Harris Stendahl Hellas Pindar Sophocles Phidias Praxiteles Herodotus Llandaff Cathedral Gwynt traed y meirw (wind blowing over the feet of corpses) Bethlehem Belgium Rhodd Nadolig - Christmas gift

The 'Thrift' Box

Viscount Palmerston London 'jour de l'an' Alban Arthur Avagddu Hea Gorsedd Cerridwen Awen Herefordshire

British Goblins can be found on Archive.org

You can find out more about Wirt Sikes on Wikipedia.

Try the Celtic Myth Podshow for the Tales and Stories of the Ancient Celts at http://celticmythpodshow.com or on Apple Podcasts.

Our theme music is "Gander at the Pratie Hole" by Sláinte. You can find their music on the Free Music Archive.