North Cardiganshire

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: Curiously enough, the same cawett story used to be said of a widely spread family in North Cardiganshire, whose surname was pronounced Massn and written Mason or Mazon: as my mother was of this family (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter I: Undine's Kymric Sisters)

  "Curiously enough, the same cawett story used to be said of a widely spread family in North Cardiganshire, whose surname was pronounced Massn and written Mason or Mazon: as my mother was of this family, I have often heard it."

• attestation: ' This seems to imply the application of the same adjective, some time or other, to dean water and a handsome man, just as we speak in North Cardiganshire of dwr glan, 'clean water,' and bachgen glan, (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "' This seems to imply the application of the same adjective, some time or other, to dean water and a handsome man, just as we speak in North Cardiganshire of dwr glan, 'clean water,' and bachgen glan, 'a handsome boy,'"

• attestation: In North Cardiganshire we speak of a day's mowing as gwaith gwr, ' a man's work for a day," and sometimes of a gwaith gwr bach, 'a man's work f (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "In North Cardiganshire we speak of a day's mowing as gwaith gwr, ' a man's work for a day," and sometimes of a gwaith gwr bach, 'a man's work for a short day.'"

• attestation: In North Cardiganshire the spectre intended is known only by another name, that of Gnraek y JJhOyn, but y GyMiratlli or yt htH Gyhiraelh is a common term of abuse applied to a lanky, cadaverous person (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)

  "In North Cardiganshire the spectre intended is known only by another name, that of Gnraek y JJhOyn, but y GyMiratlli or yt htH Gyhiraelh is a common term of abuse applied to a lanky, cadaverous person, both there and in Gwynelf; in books, however, it is found sometimes meaning a phantom funeral."