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 380 Folk-lore Miscellanea.

'Tis a good music, etc.

'S math an ceol, etc.

Mur bitheadh pong a tha 'n a deigh.

Were it not for the point^ that 's after it.

The next communication is a note by Mr. Davies of Lincoln College. I received it last term, and it relates to a Glamorgan holy well, situated on the pathway leading from Coy church to Bredgled.

It is the custom, he writes, for people suffering from any malady to dip a rag in the water and bathe the affected part. The rag is then placed on a tree close to the well. When I passed it about three years' ago there were hun- dreds of these shreds covering the tree, and some had evidently been placed there very recently.

My next correspondent speaks also about wells, and of other things as well. He is Mr. D. J, Jones of Jesus College, a native of the Rhondda Valley in Glamorgan. His letter contains the following particulars :

" There are three interesting wells in our county. Ffynnon Pen Rhys is only about two miles distant from my home. The custom there is for the person who wishes to be bene- fited, first to wash in the water, and afterwards to throw a pin into the well.

" Dafydd Morgan wg, in his Hanes Morgamvy, speaks as follows of Ffynnon Marcros, or Marcros Well : ' Mae zu arferiad gan y rhai a iacheir ynddi i glymu darn bychan o lian neu gotwm wrth frigau pren sydd gerllau ac y masnt yno mor ami ar dail braidd.' (It is the custom for those who are healed in it to tie a shred of linen or cotton to the branches of a tree that stands close by ; and there the shreds are as numerous nearly as the leaves.) Marcros is near Nash Point, about eight miles from Bridgend, on the map.

"Another well is that of Llancarfan, which is five or six miles from Cowbridge. The custom there is the same as

^ No one seems to know the meaning of \.\\is pong^ or point, now.