Ponterwyd

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: I may add that when I was a child in the neighbourhood of Ponterwyd, on the upper course of the Rheidol, hardly a year used to pass without somebody or other meeting a phantom funeral (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)

  "I may add that when I was a child in the neighbourhood of Ponterwyd, on the upper course of the Rheidol, hardly a year used to pass without somebody or other meeting a phantom funeral."

• comparison: Now the name, as a part of the man, was once probably identified with the breath of life or with the soul, as we shall see later; and the latter must have been regarded as a kind of matter; for 1 well (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Now the name, as a part of the man, was once probably identified with the breath of life or with the soul, as we shall see later; and the latter must have been regarded as a kind of matter; for 1 well remember that when a person was dying in a house, it was the custom about Ponterwyd, in North Cardiganshire, to open the windows."

• attestation: Well, my aunt's stoty was to the following effect: — A party of reapers on a farm not far from Ponterwyd— I have forgotten the name— sat down in the field to their midday meal (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "Well, my aunt's stoty was to the following effect: — A party of reapers on a farm not far from Ponterwyd— I have forgotten the name— sat down in the field to their midday meal."