Monmouthshire

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: The cave portion relates how a Monmouthshire farmer, whose house was grievously troubled by the bogie, set out one morning to call on a wizard who lived near Caerleon, and how he on his way came up wi (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "The cave portion relates how a Monmouthshire farmer, whose house was grievously troubled by the bogie, set out one morning to call on a wizard who lived near Caerleon, and how he on his way came up with a very strange and odd man who wore a three-cornered hat."

• attestation: 462-4; and they are to the following effect: — Long ago there was in service at a Monmouthshire farm a young woman who was merry and strong (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "The passages here in point come from the story of which a part was given at pp. 462-4; and they are to the following effect: — Long ago there was in service at a Monmouthshire farm a young woman who was merry and strong."

• attestation: He spent part of his childhood near ILjguiover in Monmouthshire; and in those days he spoke Welsh, which he learned from his nurse (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "He spent part of his childhood near ILjguiover in Monmouthshire; and in those days he spoke Welsh, which he learned from his nurse."