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Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow @amgueddfacymru • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts @calonbooks • Represented @wolfiegoethe • Rheibio'n Gymraeg

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Sometimes you stumble upon the Holy Grail of folklore finds (short of finding the Grail itself). A while back, I was contacted by an antiques dealer in Ceredigion who’d found two envelopes tucked away in the back of an old chest of drawers on which they wanted my opinion… [🧵]
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It's finally here and, 𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘸𝘺𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘸𝘳, it's beautiful... 👻
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🚨 After months of blood, sweat and ghouls, I'm so incredibly proud to announce that my new book, co-authored with @folklorepod - 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘖𝘓𝘒𝘓𝘖𝘙𝘌 𝘖𝘍 𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘌𝘚: 𝘎𝘏𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘚 - is now available to PRE-ORDER from your nearest independent bookseller! 👻
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In any case, I’m delighted to say that the wonderful @WelshVernacular have given these charms a new home with me in Carreg Wen’s library while I continue my research. If anyone knows of the whereabouts of any further suspiciously similar examples, I’d love to hear from you 💫
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An apotropaic charm, repeated with near identical wording on each separate sheet, calling for the protection of the farm’s livestock ‘from all witchcraft’. Complete with astrological symbols, an ABRACADABRA triangle and magical seal, this is the work of an early C20th conjuror.
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Interestingly, although this is a fairly common layout for Welsh charms in this period, the handwriting and the wording almost exactly mirrors the charm found in Pentrenant, Powys, by Richard Merrifield, as seen in ‘The Archaeology of Ritual Magic’ (1987), shown here [📷].
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Travelling conjurors and cunning folk were extremely prevalent across mid Wales during this time, and so it’s highly likely this Ceredigion charm was written by the very same Llangurig conjuror. They may well have been purchased separately by the farmer over a number of years.
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It also mirrors a charm housed @NLWales , collected by W Ll Davies [📷] and published in 1938, and another donated to @AmgueddfaCymru in 1916. Museum curator Iorwerth C Peate claimed these charms were all written by a highly sought dyn hysbys (cunning man) from Llangurig, Powys.
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Thumbing through my copy of 'An Essay on the Welsh Saints' by Rev Rice Rees (1836) this evening when out slid a letter addressed to the previous owner by none other than... R. S. Thomas 😳 The note is penned in Welsh, and touches upon the history of Eglwys Fach, Machynlleth.
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While the envelopes had already been opened at some point in the past, scrawled in black ink was an ominous warning: ‘not to bee open at all’. Inside, were folded three brittle and yellowed sheets of paper, each covered in the same crabbed handwriting…
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Winning the crown must be nice, but give me the thrill of finding one of Wales's rarest books on an Eisteddfod stall any day! Over the moon to *finally* own one of 50 copies ever printed of 'Rhai o Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru' (Some of Wales's Old Conjurers) by J. H. Davies (1901)! 🧙🏻‍♂️
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An article of mine printed in @TheScotsman this week, condeming previous over-reliance on poorly translated English language sources, and lauding the virtues of using original Welsh language texts when researching the country's much overlooked and ignored regional ghost-lore 👻
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In 1882 a woman from the parish of Efenechtyd, Denbighshire, asked the rector's wife for a shilling from the offering made at Holy Communion to fashion into a ring, as rings made from offertory money were believed to cure fits (a custom also recorded in Wrexham) #FolkloreThursday
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There's only *1 month* to go until 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' materializes on shelves everywhere! 👻 So, for the next 4 weeks, I'm going to be sharing some of my favourite ghoulish snippets and sinister stories from each chapter, as well as details of all upcoming events!
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Blwyddyn newydd dda from a beautiful remote old farmhouse in the depths of Sir Gâr. And as we're here, there's no better excuse for a 🧵on some lesser known west and mid-Walian New Year folklore customs. Move aside, Mari Lwyd. #WelshFolklore
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🌟📚 Today's the day! 📚🌟 From a chance encounter over Caernarfonshire sleep paralysis lore with @folklorepod back in October 2021 to this: An *actual book* about two of my favourite subjects in the world (in no particular order): Wales and ghost-lore! 👻 🌟📚 Out TODAY! 📚🌟
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For those who don't know, I spend much of my time collecting old texts on Welsh folklore and custom, many of which are exceptionally rare. Then there are days like today when I find a book I never thought I'd see outside a specialist library. Enter 'Hynafiaeth Aruthrol y Trwn'.
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Heart just skipped a beat at the first sighting of 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' proofs out in the wild at last! 👀
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I'm VERY excited about today's book-proof post! Published 28th September from @UniWalesPress #FolkloreThursday @SundayFolklore @FolkloreThurs @MariaVBooks @LitWales @delythbadder @Mr_Mark_Norman #ghosts #ghostlore #folklore #wales
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As it’s fast approaching, a Nos Galan Gaeaf (All Hallows’ Eve) themed #SuperstitionSat ... This was the darkest of the Tair Ysbrydnos (three spirit nights) in Wales, when “wind blowing over the feet of the corpses” bore sighs to the houses of those destined to die during the year.
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"One of the most most engrossing non-fiction releases of the year so far, The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts goes far beyond your typical collection of recycled, well-known ghost stories." Exploring Wales's spooks and spectres with @WalesOnline today! 👻
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In Wales, a fire was kept burning in the birthing room to keep the devil at bay and prevent the tylwyth teg from changing the infant for a "plentyn cyfnewid" (or "crimbil" in Morgannwg). A prayer or hymn book would be kept in the bed until the child was baptized #FolkloreThursday
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📣 Having finally signed the dotted line, I'm ridiculously happy to announce that I've been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow with @AmgueddfaCymru !! Very much looking forward to continuing my research into the appearance of spirits within Welsh folklore @StFagans_Museum 🕯️
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While 2023 began with pulling all-nighters writing 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, this wild year ends with completion of a book tour and work on some exciting new ventures… Looking forward to sharing the rollercoaster that is set to be 2024 with you all! Blwyddyn newydd dda, gyfeillion diniwed!
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Those with an interest in Welsh antiquarianism will likely appreciate the sheer joy I experienced this weekend when, after years of searching, I finally got my mitts on a near pristine (and near affordable!) full 4 vol set of J. D. Davies’s ‘The History of West Gower’ (1877-94)📚
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Delighted to have finally found a rare complete copy of 'Hanes Plwyf Penderyn' (History of Penderyn Parish) by David Davies (2nd ed., 1924) in an antique shop in Caerfyrddin yesterday for £1. It provides a colourful account of the parish's c19th Cunning Woman, Jemima Jones.🧙‍♀️
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Recently, I won two lots of 'Welsh interest' books at auction, all from the residual library of schoolmaster, journalist and author, Henry Tobit Evans. When I went to collect them, it transpired I'd unwittingly bought almost 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘴...
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Finally finished editing the proofs for 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘖𝘓𝘒𝘓𝘖𝘙𝘌 𝘖𝘍 𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘌𝘚: 𝘎𝘏𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘚! Checking in on bwgan bolól, the shapeshifting bull of Garthgraban Fawr, and the philanthropic phantom of Bryn Bachau one last time before @calonbooks send them to haunt the printers 👻
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Welsh Folklore Dictionary 101: Coblyn. pl. Coblynnau / Coblynnod / Coblyniaid. 𝘎𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯, 𝘪𝘮𝘱, 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦, 𝘣𝘰𝘨𝘺, ‘𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳’ 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥. First appears in William Salesbury’s 1547 dictionary as ‘koblyn’.
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Wel, dyma ni’n dwad, Gyfeillion diniwed, I ’mofyn am genad - i ganu. Pure joy spending the afternoon wassailing among friends and the mischievous Mari Lwyd in Llantrisant today.
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Great Scott! Unbelievably, I've just topped yesterday's discovery with a surprise stash of letters from pioneering Celtic scholar and first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University, Sir John Rhŷs, tucked away inside a 4th ed. of 'The Welsh People' (1906)! 😱
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Thumbing through my copy of 'An Essay on the Welsh Saints' by Rev Rice Rees (1836) this evening when out slid a letter addressed to the previous owner by none other than... R. S. Thomas 😳 The note is penned in Welsh, and touches upon the history of Eglwys Fach, Machynlleth.
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What does an antiquarian book collector do for #WorldBookDay ? They buy the mother of all rotating bookcases so they can finally house their texts on the history of Methodism in Wales, that's what 📚
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Whatever space has not been taken over by musty old books here at Carreg Wen is usually occupied by items of Welsh vernacular antique furniture or folk art. Yesterday, these two stunning slate fans arrived - classic examples of popular C19-20th north Walian folk art.
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Delighted to have submitted the manuscript for 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' to @calonbooks with @folklorepod 🍾 Ever read about #WelshGhosts and lamented the lack of Lewys Glyn Cothi? Or wondered what Als gwraig Rhys gŵr Als really saw in Gelli Isaf? We've got you covered 👻
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This old chap is tentatively approaching his third winter with us in Gelli Feddyg woods this year. He lost his territory to a younger chick earlier in the summer, but has found solace nesting among the remains of the old quarry and the stone ruins of the workers' huts.
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... ranging from Welsh history, folklore, poetry and linguistics to sheet music. But the reason I'm so besotted with this collection is that near every single book contains decades worth of notes, letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and ballads - I even found a love token♥️
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In St Digain's church, Llangernyw, at midnight each Nos Galan Gaeaf (All Hallows' Eve), it is said that the voice of the spirit, Angelystor, can be heard announcing from the altar the names of all the parishioners that are doomed to die within the coming year #FolkloreThursday
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I’m just a folklorist, imploring people to stop using Marie Trevelyan’s work as the basis for their Welsh #folklore content. ‘Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales’ (1909) is a marvel, mainly because of the sheer number of inaccuracies Trevelyan managed to squeeze into it.
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It's only been a week since the launch of 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts', and it's already the *third* bestselling @Books_Wales title for adults in Wales... 🫣
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📚Here are the titles that flew out of our warehouse last month. 📚Available now from your local bookshop. #LoveReading #ChooseBookshops
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Last year, I posted some regional 𝘕𝘰𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘦𝘢𝘧 (Halloween) customs, which you can find in the RT'd 🧵 below. This year, I'm going to be doing some Welsh lore-busting. Have your 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘱 (turnips) at the ready, folks... 🎃
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As it’s fast approaching, a Nos Galan Gaeaf (All Hallows’ Eve) themed #SuperstitionSat ... This was the darkest of the Tair Ysbrydnos (three spirit nights) in Wales, when “wind blowing over the feet of the corpses” bore sighs to the houses of those destined to die during the year.
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Delighted to welcome this 1800s #WelshSettle to its new home in Carreg Wen this week. In combination with the words 'Am heddwch a tangnefedd', #runes from the Welsh druidic alphabet, known as 'Coelbren y Beirdd', are also carved into the oak.
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As the Eisteddfod begins, visitors might want to keep an eye out for the Beast of Boduan... Described as resembling a large spotted fox by those unlucky enough to encounter the beast, its nocturnal braying and taste for the area's cats terrified villagers for years #Steddfod2023
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Having found Morganwg's book for sale in Spain of all places, there's something very satisfying about being able to welcome it back to Pontypridd, where it will sit next to Iolo's manuscripts in Dr William Price's roundhouse cottage. Like putting the band back together again.
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Delivery of another rare parish history this morning with an *entire chapter* dedicated to its 𝘣𝘸𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘥. 𝘉𝘸𝘨𝘢𝘯 is just one word for 'ghost' in Wales, the distinction between terms being tenuous, with angels, demons, fairies and ‘ghosts’ proper often lumped together 👻
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Easter celebrations as per the south Wales Neo-Druidic revival: a tangled 🧵 In the 19th century, Pontypridd was gripped by Druidic fever, due in part to the efforts of Edward Williams (bardic name Iolo Morganwg) to rekindle Welsh patriotism through invented traditions.
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Today's unusual delivery: one commemorative token for Jesus Christ's cremation. A 🧵 involving Druids, Jesus, a very public cremation, a post mortem examination and a sensational trial. Hold on to your fox fur hats...
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And just like that, this beauty has finally emerged out of the ether, dust jacket and all! You can pre-order your copy now via , or pick one up at any of the upcoming promotional events (🎟️ on website), all while helping to support independent bookshops 👻
www.folklorewales.com

Dr Delyth Badder is a folklorist, author, and antiquarian book collector who has channelled a lifetime’s interest in Welsh folklore into academic study, and an extensive library of some of Wales’s...

www.folklorewales.com
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Maria Vassilopoulos
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10 months
Just before I left work this lovely book was put in front of me and obviously I had to share it 🤩 looks so brilliant in real life, well done team @calonbooks and @delythbadder and @folklorepod 📚 👻 #books #newbooks
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Celebrating the end of an exhilarating, exhausting and spectacular book tour with the most incredible friends in frosty Glastonbury. Diolch, diolch, diolch to everyone who organised, travelled, contributed and supported over the past 2 months. It's been a joy meeting you all 👻
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From treasure-guarding, shapeshifting, fantastical spirits, to ghostly priests, princes and donkeys (and a Ladi Wen or two), we've examined rare, unpublished and untranslated texts to bring you Welsh ghosts as you've never seen them before! Haunting all bookshops from SEP 28 🚨
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The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts inspiring the very best spooky artwork in the run up to Nos Galan Gaeaf... 🕯️
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Skulls & Sheets
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A Mari Lwyd of the Corpse Candles (Cannwyll Gorff) inspired by @delythbadder and @folklorepod s The folklore of wales ghosts book
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As it’s #NationalParanormalDay I thought I’d share my favourite exclusively Welsh ghost-lore motif, which is those grim ghouls with unfinished business that haunt a certain location wailing into the gloom: “Long the day and long the night, And long the wait for [insert name].”
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Pan sgwennais i 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴: 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, feddylies i 'rioed y byddai rhywun mor ddiwylliedig a deallus â @Gareth4567 yn meddwl ddwywaith am fy llyfr. Dwi di cyrraedd, bois. Achievement unlocked: my book endorsed by Wales's chief orangutan 🦧
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The bwgan's out of the bag... Can't wait to introduce some of Wales's finest forgotten poltergeists, fantastical ghouls, and the odd phantom donkey in our upcoming book #WelshGhosts 👻👻👻 Weithia, ma' raid i hogan jesd isda lawr a 'sgwennu llyfr am gŵls Cymreig, olreit?
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT I am co-authoring a new book on Welsh Ghosts with @delythbadder to be published next year by @calonbooks Our USP: we use old Welsh archive material never seen outside of the original sources and never translated into English. Expect long lost stories!
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Now, I adore being lost among piles of old Welsh texts in search of folklore. But it’s exceptional folk like Owen who do the most important work: giving these tales a brand new lease of life reimagined in glorious technicolour, ensuring their preservation for future generations.
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Owen Staton
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Hello All . My name is Owen and over the last couple of years I have released a weekly podcast telling traditional Ghost stories and folktales in a mindful way . Please check it out on the link below and please tell your friends . #storytelling
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In Gwynedd, it was believed that should a mother swallow her child's first lost tooth, it would later be replaced by a perfect set. In a similar vein, children from this area who developed a gap between their front teeth were destined to live abroad. #FolkloreThursday
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There's little over a month now before 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' hits the shelves... If there are bookshops, podcasters or journalists itching to hear more about wonderful Welsh ghost-lore, I'd love to hear from you! Contact me via or @calonbooks 👻
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🚨TONIGHT!🚨 From sin-eating to spectral hell hounds, join me at 8pm @TheLastTuesdayS as I take you on a dark tour through Wales’s folkloric relationship with death 💀 And if you can’t join us tonight, the recording will still be made available for you to watch later!
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The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum
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Tonight's Lecture - Blood, Toili, Tears and Sweat Death Customs and Morbid Folk Beliefs in Wales - Dr Delyth Badder #Blood #Toili #Tears #Sweat #DeathCustoms #Morbid #FolkBeliefs #Wales   #DelythBadder @TheLastTuesdayS
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My brilliant husband has written a new folk horror novella dripping in Welsh lore, where a particularly unpleasant portent of death lurks in Cwm Darran... 💀 For Welsh-language readers of all abilities - including learners 📚
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Elidir Jones
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Hei, pwy sy isio nofel arswyd newydd gen i ac @YLolfa FIS NESA? Ar drip gwersylla yng Nghwm Darran, bydd cyfrinachau’n cael eu datgelu, hen ffrindiau’n troi’n elynion, a hunllefau o berfeddion llên gwerin Cymru yn dod yn fyw. Drychwch arno fo yn ei holl ogoniant sbwci!
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📣 News just in: The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts has just landed @swanseastones ! Let's hope the good people of Swansea give it a warmer welcome than they did the Englishman whose "cursed body" they cast into the sea then buried on the beach (see 'Water Spirits' chapter)... 👻
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Waterstones Swansea
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Doors open in 55 minutes. Just in - The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, by @delythbadder and @Mr_Mark_Norman ! Delyth will be here, alongside Prof Miranda Aldhouse-Green, chatting to @OwenSGriffiths on 15.11 from 6pm! Tickets, £3, available in-store or here👇
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There is an account of a Ci Annwn (hellhound) appearing to Magi Gŵl on her way home from chapel with her friend, Catherine Thomas, in Nantgarw. The black dog had "eyes like two stars" and was only visible to Magi. By morning, Magi's grandfather had died. #FolkloreThursday
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In Llandygai, Gwynedd, there are accounts of 'Ysbryd y Lantar' (the Lantern Ghost) which, for the duration of winter, would haunt a sour apple tree on the banks of Llyn Cororion. The tree would seem as if on fire, slowly smouldering at first until it was ablaze. #FolkloreThursday
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Latest arrival at Carreg Wen's library: a 1st edition volume of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetry (1789). Compiled by Wales's master forger and druidic revivalist, Iolo Morganwg, several of the poems included here represent Iolo's own forgeries, rather than the works of the C14th poet.
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Stopped by Ebenezer Church, Pont-y-pŵl to call in on my favourite accidental C18th folklorist - Rev Edmund Jones, ‘Yr Hen Broffwyd’. An Independent minister, he spent a remarkable 70 years travelling the length of Wales on horseback, preaching the gospel to the country's sinners.
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... Alternatively, you can buy all three *brilliant* sets of the 'Legends of Wales' battle cards which already exist from @huwaaron , an incredibly hard-working Welsh artist here:
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1 year
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to create a Top Trumps style card game about Welsh mythology featuring some of the most iconic figures from the folklore of Wales
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📣 CARDIFF FOLK! I'll be chatting Welsh ghouls, lore and myths tonight with the marvellous Prof Miranda Aldhouse-Green and storyteller extraordinaire Owen Staton 📍 @WaterstonesCDF 7pm Tomorrow night, it's the good people of Swansea's turn to be spooked... 📍 @swanseastones 6pm
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Owen Staton
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Tonight I shall be in @WaterstonesCDF at 7pm with @delythbadder and Miranda Aldhouse-Green talking about their fantastic new books Folklore of Wales -Ghosts and Enchanted Wales published by @calonbooks . It will be a night full of fright and fable . Join us if you can ?
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Beyond humbled to see ‘The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts’ included among such an impressive line-up of favourite Welsh non-fiction books for 2023 as chosen by the @WalesArtsReview 🌟 There’s still time to grab a copy from for your Christmas stockings! 🎄
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Dr Delyth Badder is a folklorist, author, and antiquarian book collector who has channelled a lifetime’s interest in Welsh folklore into academic study, and an extensive library of some of Wales’s...

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Wales Arts Review
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As we look back at the Welsh arts in 2023, today we’re naming our favourite Welsh non-fiction of the year. From the inequalities the birdwatching community poses, to King Charles' relationship with Wales - this year's Welsh non-fiction selection has been anything but boring.
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The children of Wales opted for full-on folk horror when modernising their @EisteddfodUrdd ceremonies this year and I'm absolutely here for it 🪶 Da iawn wir, blantos!
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🐤 'Ma nhw'n tynnu sylw. Pam lai?' 🐷 'I fi ma' fe'n bychanu'r Steddfod.' Beth yw eich barn chi ar y cymeriadau newydd sy’n rhan ganolog o seremonïau'r Urdd?
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Ar gychwyn #Steddfod2023 heddiw, efallai y byddai'n syniad i ymwelwyr gadw llygad gwyliadwrus ar agor am Fwystfil Boduan... Dyma greadur oedd yn cael ei ddisgrifio nid yn annhebyg i lwynog mawr smotiog. Byddai'n arswydo trigolion yr ardal drwy nadu fel mul a hela cathod fin nos.
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"... a must-read for folklorists seeking to understand more about the Welsh folk tradition. It is also an entertaining, charmingly written read, with many amusing tales and ominous accounts..." 👻 Another excellent review of 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' by @BuzzMagWales !
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Buzz Magazine
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Delyth Badder and Mark Norman recognise Welsh folklore and supernatural experiences with spirits in The Folklore Of Wales: Ghosts.
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Really looking forward to bringing a coffinful of dark and morbid Welsh folklore to the table for this year's @AbertoirFest . You can catch me and the Cŵn Annwn on Sunday afternoon 💀
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Passes for #Abertoir2023 are now on sale! The full festival pass is £60 and available from @aberystwytharts �� online, by phone or in-person. Details:
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Robin Goch ym mhlwy Rhiwabon Lyncodd bâr o fachau crochon; Bu'n edifar ganddo ganwaith Eisiau llyncu llai ar unwaith.
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In the 1800s, winter weather divination was practiced in some parts of Wales by placing the shoulder blade of a sheep or pig into the hearth fire. Once removed, if the bone was blackened, the winter would be mild; white streaks predicted snow and hard frost. #FolkloreThursday
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7 months
Dic Aberdaron makes a brief appearance in 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 in relation to one of my favourite fantastical, shapeshifting hauntings: the ghost of Camfa Angharad, a stile in Abererch, Gwynedd, where a rock was once exhumed which bore a strange inscription only Dic could read.
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GPC Welsh dictionary
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Word of the Day: ieithmon 'a dabbler in languages': - it was on this day in 1823 that Dic Aberdaron died, T. H. Parry-Williams's 'ieithmon a chathmon' ((amateur) philologist and catman). (Photo: Dic's home in Aberdaron by John Thomas)
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I can't tell you how utterly thrilled I am to be part of this year's @AbertoirFest lineup! 🪓 Join me in Aberystwyth this November where I'll be presenting some of the dark folkloric inspiration behind Welsh horror on film, from sin-eating to spectral hell hounds 💀
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Abertoir Horror Festival
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10 months
Team Abertoir has been hard at work and we’re so pleased to present the first wave of programming for #Abertoir2023 ! These brand new films, cult classics and special presentations only scratch the surface and we hope they whet your appetite!
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✨📚 Only one more week to go! 📚✨ The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts will soon be haunting shelves everywhere, and it's been a joy seeing all the pre-orders arrive in their new homes! If you'd like to catch me on the book tour, here's a list of dates (🎟️ ):
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Calling all #folkhorror fans: if you haven't seen either of these classic Welsh horrors before, then today's the day, you lucky sods. O'r Ddaear Hen gave nightmares to a whole generation in the 80s, while Gwaed ar y Sêr is incredibly silly and lots of fun - both subtitled! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Abertoir Horror Festival
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Have you heard of the infamous Welsh horror classics, Gwaed ar y Sêr & O'r Ddaear Hen? Always wanted to see them but needed subtitles? Here's your chance thanks to @MatchboxCine ! Available from 3:30pm today, online, for 24H, as part of #Abertoir2022 :
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The date and time of birth often held various prognostic meanings across Wales. In Denbighshire for instance, folk believed those born during a storm would lead troublesome lives. Girls born under a waxing moon would be precocious, and eloquent under a new moon #FolkloreThursday
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Households lit bonfires and practiced divination while the Hwch Ddu Gwta hunted, and at midnight a spirit sat on every stile. Spare a thought for the residents of Llanbedrog who, for the rest of winter, would be haunted nightly by all manner of ghosts, demons and tylwyth teg.
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🌟📚 Bellach yn awdur cyhoeddiedig, bois bach! 📚🌟 Nôd y llyfr oedd dodi llên gwerin ysbrydion Cymreig ar blatfform haeddiannol gan brofi ei fod wedi datblygu a goroesi ar wahân, yn annibynol o'r profiad "Prydeinig". Dwi wir yn gobeithio fy mod wedi g'neud cyfiawnder â'r pwnc.
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3 years
You can hear me wax lyrical about Welsh Christmas and New Year folk traditions in general with @boimoel over on @BBCCymruFyw (around 1 hour 10 mins in), which is still available for a few more days. Even Mari gets a brief nod.
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Whereas I researched for 'Ghosts' with as much academic vigour as I could muster, I would never have called it an academic title (far too many puns, not enough (any) footnotes), so to be named 'academic book of the week' is highly bemusing and also quite lovely 🥹
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Ingram Publisher Services UK
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#HappyMonday - our #academic book of the week is this #Halloween appropriate title from the brilliant @UniWalesPress , a tome of riches of the supernatural folklore, and its significance, of Wales...
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Nos Calan Gaeaf divination rituals were commonly practiced across the country. In Sir Gaerfyrddin, nuts were thrown into the fire with death predicted for those whose shells smouldered. In Llandysul, if they burnt brightly, the owner would wed within the year. #FolkloreThursday
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Some lovely person made 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴: 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 in cake form to celebrate the launch of @montylitfest ! 🍰 I’ll be at the festival being interviewed by the brilliant @OwenSGriffiths , signing copies and possibly eating cake on Saturday, June 8th 👻
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Monty Lit Fest
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We're off! The rush for tickets has started. We think it may have something to do with this spectacular Launch Cake made by Jules Lock. Thank you to all the sponsors, volunteers and MLF committee members who helped launch the 2024 Festival
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A fantastic review of my new book, 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts', out this Thursday with @calonbooks 👻 As a pathologist-cum-folklorist, I quite appreciate the reference to Scully... not sure I've ever been a paediatrician though!
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'Particularly prevalent in Welsh ghost-lore, compared with sightings beyond Offa’s Dyke, are spirits in animal form: demon dogs, horrifying horses, even a terror-inducing turkey.' ✍ @ReesMatthewG
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Bog snorkelling isn't the only craze to have gripped Llanwrtyd Wells... At the turn of the C19th, residents began to report hearing phantom, or angelic, voices singing songs of worship from the heavens - a phenomenon which became known as 'canu yn yr awyr' (singing in the sky).
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Welsh Government
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10 months
Pob lwc to everyone taking part in the bogsnorkelling championships today! 🤿 And croeso to everyone who has come far and wide to watch this year’s event at Llanwrtyd Wells. Read more about it here 👇
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Was an absolute pleasure joining @IcySedgwick to discuss Welsh death omens and ghouls. Come for the cyhyraeth and the giant ghost greyhound, stay for the rant about the mistranslation and overgeneralization of #WelshFolklore 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Also, Rhosllanerchrugog gets name-dropped twice.
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Icy Sedgwick
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2 years
In the 9th episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm chatting about Welsh death omens, the origins of the Mari Lwyd, ghost donkeys, and the problems of sharing folklore online with @delythbadder ! #FabulousFolklorePodcast
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In Gloddaeth Wood, Llandudno, poacher Thomas Davies was stalked by an apparition with a "horrible scream" and "eyes burning like fire". He spent the night cowering up a tree, while the ghost stood below staring upwards unblinking until 4am, when it vanished #folklorethursday
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Ai hwn fydd y drefn newydd i bobl leol fedru fforddio tai yn Llŷn ac Eifionydd? Dyma'r 2il dŷ yng Nghricieth sy'n cael ei rafflo gan y cwpwl yma (bellach yn gweithredu fel cwmni hir dymor). Yr enillwyr 1af 'rioed wedi ymweld â Chymru heb sôn am eu "retreat" newydd eto. @LSRPlaid
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CwellynDream
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We are delighted to announce that we have launched a brand-new competition #cwellyndream2 for this stunner, Cefn Isa Farmhouse! Full Ts&Cs on how to enter: We are so proud to be supporting the amazing @childrensociety once again ❤ Good luck everyone!
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It's been a while since I've bought an exceptionally rare book, but this beauty arrived at Carreg Wen today all the way from 🇨🇦. 'Ecce Diabolus', archdruid Myfyr Morganwg's pamphlet regarding the perils of satanic worship and blood sacrifice, printed in New York c.1885. Woof. 📚
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Spent today wandering Llantrisant in search of my great grandparents' home: 2 Swan St, right on the Bull Ring [📷], now home to Dr Price's statue. Thank you so much @LlanGuildhall @DeanPowellPR for such a warm welcome and all your help. Even left with a sketch of our house 💚
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I love Halloween (Nos Galan Gaeaf) but there's no worse time for seeing customs specific to certain localities in Wales being portrayed as country-wide #Welshfolklore rituals on social media for clicks. Respect regional variation, folks! That, and Marie Trevelyan ad infinitum 🎃
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Hen Wrach Cors Fochno makes her terrifying debut on @GoingMedieval 's podcast today, as I discuss some of my research into the ghost-lore of Wales, and @folklorepod and I discuss our new book, 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts', in time for Nos Galan Gaeaf 🎃
Gone Medieval: Ghosts of Wales

Wales has a wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night. Whether these tales are based on true events, or are the crea...

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It is said that along Lôn Nant-Iago, there would be a ghoul hiding in every hedge, a corpse candle illuminating every church, a Ladi Wen (white lady) peering from every crossroad, and apparitions were thought “as numerous as gorse bushes”. #WelshFolklore
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Trip to Gelli Gandryll (Hay) today where I managed to find a 1st edition of Rev John Evans's 'A Tour Through Part of North Wales in the Year 1798', detailing all manner of C18th supernatural beliefs. This book also contains the first written record of the Mari Lwyd folk custom.
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Some months ago, we asked @NantgarwCW to design a spill vase to commemorate our home and the pyromaniac archdruid responsible for its existence, complete with the letters of Price's serpent egg handpainted around the inner rim. We're now on the lookout for some large matches...🔥
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Thrilled that my upcoming talk on death customs and morbid folk beliefs in Wales has been chosen for the @AbertoirFest Choice Cuts, alongside @robinince , @nickovdw and @badfilmclubjoe . So now you can get up close and personal with the Cŵn Annwn from the safety of your own home 💀
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Special events too! - Welsh Death Customs presentation by Dr. Delyth Badder (recorded) - Nicko & Joe's Bad Film Club - LIVE! - Robin Ince's An Uncanny Hour: Abertoir Special (recorded) #Abertoir2023 #AbertoirCC23
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"Welsh Death Omens and Apparitions: Unveiling the Haunting Legends With Dr. Delyth Badder" My interview about the folk beliefs surrounding death omens in Wales - and Welsh ghost-lore more generally - with @HauntedHistory4 podcast is now out in the wild!🦉 [artwork @kmarlandart ]
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Haunted History Chronicles
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New Episode! "Welsh Death Omens and Apparitions: Unveiling the Haunting Legends With Dr. Delyth Badder" In Wales, a land rich in myth and folklore, tales of death omens and apparitions have long hel… Player links & show notes:
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Starting the year as I mean to go on: reading about Welsh apparitions; writing about Welsh apparitions 👻 #WelshFolklore
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When we bought the old Llanover woods in Glyn-taf last year, it was with the intention of safeguarding its history. We never thought we'd end up with a tame robin who feeds and sings from our hands. And so here's a robin-themed #WelshFolklore thread (it's not all Snow White).
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From America all the way to Pontypridd: today marks 9 years since I found an exhausted little red pup wandering the desert outside Many Farms, Arizona. We both decided it was meant to be. Penblwydd hapus, Magi Mai annwyl, a llond naw trol o beli tenis a moron i ti 🥕
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Fantastic to see 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' featuring on several spooky Halloween reading lists! 🎃🦇👻🕯️
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I've spent an enjoyable hour putting together a selection of spooky reads on our website. What's your favourite book for spooky season?
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