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                               FOLK-LORE
                                   OF
                           WEST AND MID-WALES


                                   BY
                        JONATHAN CEREDIG DAVIES

   Member of the Folk-Lore Society, Author of "Adventures in the Land
                  of Giants," "Western Australia," &c.

                             With a Preface

                                   BY
                        ALICE, COUNTESS AMHERST.


                       "Cared doeth yr encilion."


                              ABERYSTWYTH:
         PRINTED AT THE "WELSH GAZETTE" OFFICES, BRIDGE STREET.
                                 1911.







           This book is respectfully dedicated by the Author

                                   to

                    COUNTESS OF LISBURNE, CROSSWOOD.
                        ALICE, COUNTESS AMHERST.
                           LADY ENID VAUGHAN.
                  LADY WEBLEY-PARRY-PRYSE, GOGERDDAN.
                    LADY HILLS-JOHNES OF DOLAUCOTHY.
                  MRS. HERBERT DAVIES-EVANS, HIGHMEAD.
                MRS. WILLIAM BEAUCLERK POWELL, NANTEOS.







PREFACE

BY

ALICE, COUNTESS AMHERST.


The writer of this book lived for many years in the Welsh Colony,
Patagonia, where he was the pioneer of the Anglican Church. He
published a book dealing with that part of the world, which also
contained a great deal of interesting matter regarding the little known
Patagonian Indians, Ideas on Religion and Customs, etc. He returned
