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Twlc y Filiast Llangynog stands along the edge of a brook in a steep sided valley - excavated in 1953 by Savory- surrounded by an oval cairn 18m long and 9m wide with a possible forecourt-it lies in woodland and is currently overgrown with trees and bracken #TombTuesday

📚 New Events! 📚 New dates have been added to Russ Williams's fun and fascinating folklore book tour! Next stop is Waterstones Cardiff where Russ will be speaking about his book 'Where the Folk' with Sam K. Horton, author of 'Gorse' 🚗 📍 Waterstones Cardiff 🕖 7pm 🗓️ 24 October

Someone else posted a page from this on Facebook today. According to NLW it contains "transcripts from ['Raphael' (pseud.):] The Art of Talismanic Magic: being selections from the Works of Rabbi Solomon, C. Agrippa, F. Barrett, etc. ... 1879"

✨Is this the scariest item at the Library? #ManuscriptMonday #Halloween

Nos Glangaea’, twco ’fala’, Pwy sy’n dod ma’s i chwara’? Ladi wen ar ben y pren Yn naddu coes ymbrelo. [Hallowe’en, bobbing for apples, Who’s coming out to play? A Ladi wen atop the tree, Whittling an umbrella handle.] Nos Calan Gaeaf dedwydd! 🎃 Happy #Halloween!

Harries' book can be viewed online: library.wales/discover-learn…

In case you missed it, my #Halloween blogpost this year is on fairies as evil spirits in 18th-century Wales, inspired by my daughter's Halloween costume: a fairy with devil horns!. Enjoy: ramblesandstudies.wordpress.com/2024/10/28/evi…

In 'Cas Gan Gythraul', edited by Lisa Tallis, you can read about 'Some evil traditions and ceremonies' including 'practising divination by throwing nuts on the fire on All Saint's Eve to foretell who will die that year'. #Halloween #Wales #18thCentury southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/28.htm

Tessa's brilliant pumpkin carving.

I'm at bsky, same ID, mythwelsh

Thanks for all the interaction on this! When you've built up a really nice set of followers over years, it's very frustrating to feel it's all being ruined by 'external influences'

Byddwch yn ofalus pwy chi’n ei gusanu heddiw 😘 ‘Y neb a gussano gwreic gwr arall, talet petwared ran y sarhaet; ac velly o’r gofyssyaw, onyt y gware yr hwn a elwir raffan, neu yg kyfedach’ #santesdwynwen #CyfraithHywel

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 📍St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan 📍St Teilo's Church, Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont 📍St Michael and All Saints Church, Colwinston 📍St Mary's Church, Ruabon 📍St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major 📍St Giles Church, Wrexham

Does anyone know of a critical edition or discussion of Black Book of Carmarthen 4 'Kervit vrten. autyl kyrridven. ogyrven amhad'? I have Jarman's book but there doesn't seem to be much discussion of the poem anywhere.

Strange coverage of the 6-7th century medieval cemetery being unearthed near Cardiff Airport — eg no information regarding items found with the bodies that might indicate religious belief. Isn't it possible that this was an early, all-female monastic community? Link follows.

#WyrdWednesday In the ancient Welsh poem Preiddeu Annwn, or The Spoils of Annwn, King Arthur journeys to the Otherworld in search of magical treasures. He finds there a castle made of black glass and guarded by 6000 silent sentinels, a cauldron that feeds only the brave, warmed

Cadair Idris #Gwynedd Cadair Idris is Welsh for ‘the Chair of Idris’. According to Welsh folklore the mountain takes its name from a giant. Idris was a giant, who was said to have used Llyn Cau lake as an enormous armchair. #FolkloreSunday #walking