Celtic Tomes

Midsummer Eve to Hallowe'en

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

by Wirt Sikes

All about Midsummer Eve and the Beltane Fires that precede it leading up to Hallowe'en. Sikes tells us about the Three Nights for Spirits that occur at Halloween - a time at which ghosts and fairies walk abroad. He also talks about bobbing for apples and the Fourth of July celebrations in the States, Guy Fawkes' Night and how important it is that it never be forgotten.

• Midsummer Eve 0:56
• The Druidic Ceremonies at Pontypridd 1:56
• The Snake Stone 3:40
• Beltane Fires 4:32
• Fourth of July Fires in America 4:42
• St. Ulric's Day 6:10
• Carrying Cynog 6:44
• Marketing on Tombstones 8:06
• The First Night of Winter 8:28
• The Three Nights for Spirits 8:40
• The Tale of Thomas Williams the Preacher 9:30
• All Hallows Eve Festivities 10:22
• Running through Fire 11:17
• Quaint Border Rhymes 12:03
• The Puzzling Jug 12:58
• Bobbing for Apples 14:08
• The Fiery Features of Guy Fawkes' Day 15:12
• St. Clement's Day 16:35
• Stripping the Carpenter 16:59

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.

Pontypridd Beltane St. Ulric Cynog Thomas Williams Guy Fawkes St. Clement St. John's Eve Myfyr Morganwg Kali Belenian Geleiniau Nadroedd Sun-god Beal Barnabe Googe Naogeorgius

'Wheresoever Huldryche hath his place, the people there brings in Both carpes and pykes, and mullets fat, his fauour here to win.'

Brychan Brycheiniog Defynog Nos Calan Gauaf Nos Cyn Gauaf Teir Nos Ysprydnos Mary 'Wissel wassel, bread and possel, Cwrw da, plas yma' Twco am falau crwc gwyntyn Bishop Sanderson Moloch Pembrokeshire

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Sundry Lenten Customs

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 2

by Wirt Sikes

All about traditions and customs occurring around Lent in old Wales. Sikes tells us all about Hot Cross Buns and how they are tied up in a bag, the ceremony of 'Lifting' women high into the air that takes place at Easter, and the possible origins of April Fool's Day. He talks about the Maypole and the giving of Birch rods as a token of love, as well as the battle between the Winter and Summer Kings that takes place each Mayday.

• Sundry Lenten Customs 0:57
• Mothering Sunday 1:58
• Palm Sunday 2:09
• Flowering Sunday 2:15
• Walking Barefoot to Church 2:52
• Spiritual Potency of Buns 3:18
• Good Friday Superstitions 4:20
• Making Christ's Bed 4:26
• Bad Odour of Friday 5:00
• Unlucky Days 5:20
• Holy Thursday 6:00
• The Eagle of Snowdon 6:18
• New Clothing at Easter 6:57
• Lifting 7:33
• The Crown of Porcelain 8:10
• Stocsio 9:05
• Ball-Playing in Churchyards 11:00
• The Tump of Lies 12:35
• Dancing in Churchyards 13:13
• Seeing the Sun Dance 14:10
• Calan Ebrill, or All Fools' Day 14:56
• May Day 15:42
• The Welsh Maypole 16:33
• The Daughter of Lludd llaw Ereint 17:31
• Carrying the Kings of Summer and Winter 18:45

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.

Snowdon Stocsio Calan Ebrill Lludd llaw Ereint Monmouthshire Cardiff Pembrokeshire Tenby Brahmins of India Giraldus Thor Hampshire Bragawd

pic. Lifting

Rhag i'r feinwen losgi ei thalcen ('Lest the maiden burn her forehead') Aberconwy Pen Twthil Dr. Fosbrooke St. Dogmell's Parish 'Cnwc y Celwydd' videlicet Aberedwy Malkin St. Almedha, Breconshire Ffwl Ebrill Saturnalia Bedwen Bedw Collen Mabinogi Kilhwch & Olwen Gwyn ap Nudd Gwythyr Greidawl Arthur Defynog Yo ho!

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Quaint Old Customs

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 1

by Wirt Sikes

Quaint Old Customs tells us to rise early on New Year's morning to bring good luck, the Mari Lwyd procession from house to house and the story of the Cutty Wren. Sikes also tells us about St. David, St. Patrick and the wearing of the leek.

• Serious Significance of seemingly Trivial Customs 2:32
• Their Origins 2:45
• Common Superstitions 3:37
• The Age We Live in 4:10
• Days and Seasons 6:11
• New Year's Day 6:32
• The Apple Gift 6:40
• Lucky Acts on New Year's morning 8:23
• The First Foot 9:20
• Showmen's Superstitions 9:34
• Levy Dew Song 10:51
• Happy New Year Carol 11:49
• Twelfth Night 12:34
• The Mary Lwyd 12:40
• The Penglog 14:25
• The Cutty Wren 15:11
• Tooling and Sowling 15:52
• St. Valentine's Day 16:45
• St. Dewi's Day 17:45
• The Wearing of the Leek 19:10
• The Traditional St. David 23:41
• St. Patrick's Day 27:54
• St. Patrick a Welshman 28:00
• Shrove Tuesday 29:44

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.

Bodleian Library Levy Dew Mari Lwyd Penglog Sowling St. Valentine St. Dewi St. David St. Patrick Luther Glamorganshire

pic. New Year's Apple

Cardiff

pic. Three Rays

Avagddu Pembrokeshire Jonah Llef i Dduw

Blwyddyn newydd dda i chwi, Gwyliau llawen i chwi, Meistr a meistres bob un trwy'r ty, Gwyliau llawen i chwi, Codwch yn foreu, a rheswch y tan, A cherddwch i'r ffynon i ymofyn dwr glan.

awen Aberconwy (Conway) Carnarvonshire Gwent Morganwg Rhymney Dingle

pic: Cutty Wren song

soûl St. George St. Andrew Cardigan Carmarthen Lampeter Manby Cymhortha Poictiers Cressy

Pistol & Fluellen

Glyn Hodnant Teify Llandewi Brefi Abel, Noah, Thomas, Peter, Paul & David William the Conqueror Llandeilo Talybont Llantwit Major Rosina Iolo MSS Crammwythau (pancakes)

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The Corpse Candle

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 9

by Wirt Sikes

Corpse Candles are ghostly candle lights that allow us to see through the veil, or seen as an omen of forthcoming doom. How the candle lights are not tricked and how they can be seen coming from the mouth of a corpse. Sikes tells us the story of Morris Griffith and the 'Light before the Burying' as well as how Corpse Candle lights can be seen on the surface of water and streams. He finishes off by discussing the origins of the phantoms of the spirit world which ends the last chapter of Book 2 of British Goblins.

• The Corpse Candle 0:55
• Its Peculiarities 2:12
• The Woman of Caerau 4:05
• Grasping a Corpse Candle 6:26
• The Crwys Candle 7:24
• Lights issuing from the Mouth 8:39
• Jesting with the Canwyll Corph 9:48
• The Candle at Pontfaen 12:18
• The Three Candles at Golden Grove 15:21
• Origin of Death-Portents in Wales 16:02
• Degree of Belief prevalent at the Present Day 17:28
• Origin of Spirits in General 19:34
• The Supernatural 19:56
• The Question of a Future Life 21:30

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.

Caerau Crwys Candle Canwyll Corph Pontfaen Aneurin Llandovery Cymry Flambeau Lledrith Cardiff Marquis of Bute John Richards 'O wi! O Dduw!' Jenny fach, Hach Thomas Mathews Liber Landavenis St. Samson St. Bubricius William John Lanboydi Carmarthenshire Morris Griffith Pembrokeshire Tre-Davydd Llanferch-Llawddog Mr. Higgon Joshua Coslet Heol Bwlch y Gwynt (Windgap Lane) Llandilo Fawr parish Prophet Jones Golden Grove Earl of Cawdor St. David King Arthur Pelagian Gwrach y Rhibyn Cyhyraeth Cambridgeshire Evansville, Indiana Feast Tolaeth Disraeli Lothair Plato Aristotle

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Tolaeth Death Sounds

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 8

by Wirt Sikes

The Tolaeth Death Sounds includes the strange sounds that foretell death, the story of John Clode and his wife who heard the coffin arrive in their home two days before their son died! Sounds of rapping, knocking, people moving are all commonplace. Sikes tells us the story of the railway accident at Pontypridd, and a couple living nearby heard ghostly footsteps upstairs in their house. Edward Lloyd heard a ghostly voice while lying ill in bed. We hear about the Goblin Funeral which can precede a real funeral by several days. The Cwn Annwn, or Dogs of Hell, howl through the air and the story of Pwyll. King Arthur and the Wild Hunt.

Running Order:

• The Tolaeth Death Portent 0:54
• Its various forms 1:40
• The Tolaeth before Death 1:53
• Ewythr Jenkin's Tolaeth 6:00
• A Modern Instance 7:54
• The Railway Victim's Warning 9:10
• The Goblin Voice 10:10
• The Voice from the Cloud 11:12
• Legend of the Lord and the Beggar 12:25
• The Goblin Funeral 14:02
• The Horse's Skull 15:13
• The Goblin Veil 16:24
• The Wraith of Llanllwch 17:19
• Dogs of Hell 18:32
• The Tale of Pwyll 19:46
• Spiritual Hunting Dogs 22:55
• Origin of the Cwn Annwn 22:28

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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.

Tolaeth Ewythr Jenkin Llanllwch Pwyll Cwn Annwn Blaenporth, Cardiganshire Teulu Gwenllian Jenny Llynwent, Radnorshire Pontypridd Mary Edward Lloyd, Llangurig 'Y mae nenbren y ty yn craccio' (the upper beam of the house cracketh) 'Fe dor yn y man' (it will presently break) 'Dyna fe yn tori' (there it breaks) John, son of Watkin Elias Jones, Mynyddyslwyn Iolo MSS Rees Thomas, Carmarthenshire Rhiw Edwst, near Capel Ywen 'Rhys bach, pa fodd yr y'ch chwi?' (My dear Rhys, how are you?) Rev. Howel Prosser, Aberystruth Edmund Jones, the Prophet Jones Isaac William Thomas, Hafodafel llanhiddel Llanllwch Church Cwn y Wybr Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed Pembroke Narberth Glyn Cych Arawn Thomas Phillips, Telech Thomas Andrew River Ebwy Le Grand Veneur Fontainebleau, France Hackelberg, Germany Britain, King Arthur Mr. Baring-Gould Odin William Henderson Hermes Devonshire River Styx Indra

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Welsh Death Omens

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 7

by Wirt Sikes

Welsh Death Omens includes the Welsh Banshee or Gwrach y Rhibyn, crying spirits, the groaning spirits as well as corpse candles and the chirping of a bird at the door of a person about to die. Taliesin predicted the frightful monster known as the Fad Felen which comes from the marsh with hair, teeth and eyes like gold and brings death in its wake. Sikes also talks about the frightful female spectres, banshees and black maidens familiar across the Celtic World as harbingers of death.

Running Order:

• Cambrian Death Portents 1:33
• The Corpse-Bird 2:48
• The Tan-Wedd 4:00
• Listening at the Church Door 6:12
• The Lledrith 7:27
• The Gwrach y Rhibyn 9:22
• The Llandaff Gwrach 12:08
• Ugliness of this Female Apparition 15:03
• The Black Maiden 15:13
• The Cyhyraeth, or Crying Spirit 16:45
• Its Moans on Land and Sea 17:55
• The St. Mellons Cuhyraeth 21:22
• The Groaning Spirit of Bedwellty 23:05

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.

Tan-Wedd Lledrith Gwrach y Rhibyn Llandaff Gwrach Cyhyraeth St. Mellons Cuhyraeth Bedwellty The Banshee Mr. Baring-Gould Tolaeth Cwn Annwn Cwn y Wybr Canwyll Corph Teulu Aderyn y Corph Warwickshire Mr. Davis to Mr. Baxter Walter Watkins Neuadd, parish of Brecknockshire Taf Fechan Chapel Llewelyn Sion of Llangewydd Fad Felen Rhos Church Maelgwyn Gwynedd Taliesin Mallt y Nos Rev. D. R. Thomas Archaeologia Cambrensis Croker Ceffyl heb un pen Marw coel Y mae mor salw a Gwrach y Rhibyn Fy ngwr (my husband) Fm ngwraig (my wife) Fy mlentyn bach (my little child) Och Dduw! Cardiff Cow and Snuffers Inn Benshi Sir Walter Scott Hermes Black Maiden Caerleon Peredur Avagddu Glamorganshire Prophet Jones David Prosser, of Llanbyther Parish 'Woolach!' Joshua Coslet Towy Carmarthenshire Inis Cenin Non, mother of St. David Llan-non, Church of Non Monmouthshire Mary Morgan Crumlyn Bridge 'O Dduw, beth a wnaf fi?' (O God, what shall I do?) Meredith Thomas Thomas Edward Morgan Anthony Aaron William Harry Rees

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The Medieval Devil in Wales

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 6

by Wirt Sikes

The Medieval Devil in his customary form in Wales. How Sion Cent tricked the Devil and kept his soul and how he was tricked by an old Welshwoman at the Devil's Bridge. We learn about the Devil's Bridge as well as about how to avoid Pacts with the Devil. Sikes tells us of the few visits by angels to Wales as well as the Bardic Tradition of the Creation.

Running Order:

• The Evil Spirit in his customary Form 1:36
• The stupid Medieval Devil in Wales 1:53
• Sion Cent 3:43
• The Devil outwitted 4:26
• Pacts with the Fiend and their Avoidance 4:49
• Sion Dafydd's Foul Pipe 5:28
• The Devil's Bridge and its Legends 8:34
• Similar Legends in other Lands 10:10
• The Devil's Pulpit near Tintern 11:50
• Angelic Spirits 13:03
• Welsh Superstitions as to pronouncing the Name of the Evil Spirit 16:03
• The Bardic Tradition of the Creation 17:12
• The Struggle between Light and Darkness and its Symbolization 18:49

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.

Sion Cent Sion Dafydd Cardiganshire Polyphemus Hercules Cacus Odysseus Peredur Mabinogion Gambrinus der Teufel Jack the Giant Killer Norse Jotuns Arabian Genii Monmouthshire Maenol Pope Benedict IX Rev. John Kent Cymric Grosmont Fair Monnow, near Grosmont Diawl Carmarthenshire Hills of Arfon Sion Dafydd Llanfair-Fechan Rhiwgyfylchi Ach! tw! tw! Main at Frankfort Switzerland St. Gothard Andermatt Hafod Tintern Abbey Cistercian monks degage (e acute) Llandogo Prophet Jones David Thomas Pantau Laugharne Pa hyd? Pa hyd? Dychwelwch feibein Adda! Pa hyd? Pa hyd yr erlidiwch y Cristnogion duwiol? Ress David Whitlands Pont y Gwr Drwg /|\ (Welsh Bardic Name of God)

The Three Rays

Hindus Brahma, VBishnu Siva Einigan Gawr Genii/Jinns Ahriman Vritra Indra Ormuzd

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Familiar Spirits

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 5

by Wirt Sikes

Familiar Spirits are known to often throw stones, especially when at Preachers trying to exorcise them! We also hear about the familiar spirits of Magicians and others who deal in the Black Arts. Sikes tells us the legend of the Lady of the Wood, and how she bewitched those around her with illusions. The Devil himself can be seen as a form of familiar, and can transform himself into a huge black mastiff, a black calf or even a round bowl! Finally, we learn how to both summon and exorcise familiars, and how the terrible tailor of Glanbran was asked to summon the Devil.

Running Order:

• Familiar Spirits 0:55
• The Famous Sprite of Trwym Farm 2:10
• Was it a Fairy? 6:40
• The Familiar Spirits of Magicians 7:35
• Sir David Llwyd's Demon 7:43
• Familiar Spirits in Female Form 10:26
• The Legend of the Lady of the Wood 13:40
• The Devil as a Familiar Spirit 21:15
• His Disguises in this Character 22:41
• Summoning and Exorcising Familiars 26:12
• Jenkin the Pemrokeshire Schoolmaster 26:50
• The Terrible Tailor of Glanbran 29:00

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 pronunciations right for you.

Trwym Farm Sir David Llwyd Pemrokeshire Glanbran diawl Job John Harry Mynyydyslwyn Pwca'r Trwyn Ellylldan Thomas Evans Pwll y Gasseg Morris Roberts William Reilly Blanch y Byd Dos yn iach ('fare thee well') Crumlyn Abercarne Californian Bwbach Cardiganshire Oxford Rev. Mr. Thomas Lewis, Landdw & Tolachdy Radnorshire 'Tafl gerrig o'r afon' (throw stones out of the river) River Wye Giraldus Caerleon, Monmouthshire Melerius Lower Gwent Iolo MSS Einion Gwalchmai Treveilir Angharad Kent Monmouthshire Maenol Gorwenydd Gwyn Nudd Ednyved Vychan Gruddydd ab yr Ynad Coch cythraul dera diafol Hermes Vavasor Powell Pemrokeshire Narberth Henry Llewellyn Ystrad Defoc Glamorganshire Marquis of Bute William Jones Risca village Merthyr Tydfil John Jenkin Glanbran, Carmarthenshire Mr. Gwynne

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Grotesque Ghosts

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

by Wirt Sikes

We hear about the grotesque ghosts of Welsh folklore, the story of the minister and the phantom horseman, Anne Jenkins and the giant ghost with the long black tongue. Sikes also tells us about dark or black men in the Mabinogion, spinning or whirling ghosts as well as those that play tricks on people. He leaves us with the story of the Tridoll Valley ghost and its many antics with stones, pilchards and the maid's bed-clothes!

Running Order:

• Grotesque Ghosts 0:53
• The Phantom Horseman 1:44
• Gigantic Spirits 6:08
• The Black Ghost of Ffynon yr Yspryd 8:11
• Black Men in the Mabinogion 9:54
• Whirling Ghosts 11:42
• Antic Spirits 13:31
• The Tridoll Valley Ghost 16:10
• Resemblance to Modern Spiritualistic Performances 23:17
• Household Fairies 25:45

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.

Rev. John Jones, Holywell, Flintshire Heinrich Zschokke Bala, Merionethshire Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire Llanuwchllyn Edward Frank Thomas Miles Harry, Aberystruth Abergavenny Thomas Lewis, of Llan-haran, Glamorganshire Anne Herbert Jenkins, Trefethin Rhiw-newith Ffynon yr Yspryd Mabinogion Peredur Carn Sindbad the Sailor Cynan Polyphemus Odysseus Prophet Jones Lewis Thomas Bedwellty John Jenkins, Abertillery Jeremiah James Abertillery Household Thomas Andrew Llanhiddel Llanllechid, Carnarvonshire Bangor Edward Roberts, Llangunllo, Radnorshire Knighton William Thomas The Tridoll Valley Ghost Williams Evans Rev. R. Tibbet Montgomeryshire Cawnen Allen Akron, Ohio Michael Metzler Mrs. Knoss Rochester Bwbach Hoibgoblin Nis Brownie Kobolds Kobold Hinselmann Grimm Feldman Woo, 'Che-wan-luk'

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Spectral Animals

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 2 Chapter 3

by Wirt Sikes

We hear abut ghostly hounds, as well as the Gwyllgi or the Dog of Darkness with the gleaming eyes, about how horses can see terrifying spectres. Sikes tells us the story of Old Anthony and the Dog of Darkness and that of Rebecca Adam who saw and heard its terrible screams..

Running Order:

• Spectral Animals 00:55
• The Chained Spirit 3:02
• The Gwyllgi, or Dog of Darkness 4:28
• The Legend of Lisworney-Crossways 5:15
• The Gwyllgi of the Devil's Nags 7:32
• The Dog of Pant y Madog 8:48
• Terrors of the Brute Creation at Phantoms 10:08
• Apparitions of Natural Objects 13:27
• Phantom Ships and Phantom Islands 14:31

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.

Rev. Mr. Hughes Anglesea Amlwch Village St. Elian Church Gwyllgi Yspaddaden Pencawr Mousiad Lisworney-Crossways Mr. Jenkin Old Anthony David Walter, of Pembrokeshire Cot Moor The Devil's Nags Rebecca Adams Laugharne Castle, Carmarthenshire Pant y Madog Indiana Andrew Jackson Davis Auguste Comte Mauthe Doog Isle of Man Shock of the Norfolk Coast Cwn Annwn

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