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Cataloojic of Brand Material.
\^■ind " blowing over the feet of the corpses " ^ bears sighs to the houses of those doomed to die during year
Listeners to wind at cross- roads learn events of com- ing year - - - -
Crows coming round the house foretell death -
South ^^■a^es.
South Wales.
- South \^'ales.
(6) Apparitions.
One of the " three spirit nights
" On November Eve there is a bogv at every stile "
On November Eve there is a ghost at every cross-road or stile - - - -
An old woman carding and spinning haunted stiles
A short-tailed black sow did so ; sometimes thus em- ployed - - - -
The devil in animal form did so on the Three Spirit Nights. He haunted " Sogram's Stone " ; on other winter midnights a white lady did so -
Evil spirit announces year's deaths in church porch -
Ditto, from the altar - Dangerous to sleep in crom- lech : sleeper will be either mad, dead, or a poet Dangerous to go out after dark - - - _
(c) Witchcraft.
Witches hold assembly, are specially powerful.
'^i.e. from the west?
2 The others were May-Eve and Midsummer-Eve.
North Cardigan.
South Wales. South \\'ales.
Montgomerj' and North Wales.
South Wales, Pembroke- shire (St. Dogmael's).
Montgomeryshire (Aber-
hafesp.). Denbighsh. (Llangemiew).
Vale of Glamorgan. Vale of Glamorgan.
