Welsh Folk-Lore / a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

is supposed to be so called because there is a yew tree growing in the very middle of it. In many parts of the wood are to be seen green circles, w

sleeper went home, and when they inquired after his companion, he told them he was gone to the cobbler's shop. The next day they inquired of him again about his fellow-servant, but he could not give them any account of him; but at last confessed how and where they had both gone to sleep. Alter searching and searching many days, he went to a 'gwr cyvarwydd' (a conjuror), which was a very common trade in those days, according to the legend; and the conjuror said to him, 'Go to the same place where you and the lad slept; go there exactly a year after the boy was lost; let it be on the same day of the year, and at the same time of the day, but take care that you do not ste

iend, the Rev. R. Jones, Rector of Llanycil. I do not think Mr. Jones gave me the locality where the occu