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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.