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the results on the bride's white satin dress may be imagined. I am told that the bride is roped sometimes in Newport.^

{The late) E. J. Dunnill.-"

The Skyrrid, or Holy Mountain, is so called because it was divided at the Crucifixion. One part of it is in America. There has been no snail ui^on it ever since, or worm either: that is because it is sacred; they cannot go there. (Collected at Brom- yard, 1909.) Ella M. Leather.

Radnorsliire.

Four Stones, Old Rad)ior. — There was a great battle fought here, and four kings were killed. The Four Stones were set up over their graves. (Kington \Vorkhouse, 1908.)

Foundation Sacrifice (?). — The following paragraph, appeared under " Brecon and Radnor Notes " in the Hereford Times, Nov. 26, 1910, concerning Dolfor Hall, which stands near the border between the counties of Radnor and Montgomery. " Some eighty years ago, when the old hall, (then 200 years old), was being restored, a curious discovery was made. As the AN-orkmen were pulling down the old house, in one corner of the big kitchen, under the paving, they came across a vault made of flagstones, and covered over with another flagstone. This vault contained a horse's head at each corner, all pointing to the north. The only explanation that could be gleaned was that the heads were placed there, long before anyone then living could remember, to prevent or counteract witchcraft, and that they were the heads of horses that had mysteriously died from the effects of witchcraft. There was, however, no local tradition." The local theory, though probably quite a wrong one, proves the survival of a belief in witchcraft among the inhabitants of Dolfor eighty years ago.

Ella M. Leather.

■* Cf. vol. xxiii., p. 459 (Piedmont); vol. xiii., pp. 231-2. ° See note •' p. 107.