Show SPREAD OF superstition weird beliefs are rapidly gaining ground in wales sone some say in wales that I 1 if f a mares shoe is nailed to the lintel of the door no witch can ever enter the house and that if one of them happens to go into a neighbors house a broom placed across the threshold by a member of the family will prevent her leaving somebody has said that two straps laid crosswise on the threshold will serve the purpose quite effectually A neighbors wife heard one of them mu mumbling abling something to herself and believed that she was saying the lords prayer backward somebody has bas a also aa a said that they can all be sent after pharaoh and his chariots into the depths depth of the T tied red sea it if recourse be had to an expert but that the latter must bs b skilled in arithmetic algebra hebrew rear greek I 1 latin tin and all the original tongues before he eau cau compass this mighty feat the belief in these things is rapidly gaining ground nowadays according te the author of reminiscences scenes in camra it has already crossed the new bridge a t mill and has crept up from carn ingli past moria morfa along the seashore beashore as far as it i also making its way eastward having by this time almost reached that famous old stone called arthurs quoits and if its progress is not checked it il will soon arrive at the seren office in marthan Car then on to the Ll anelly thence to the awron ab er dare and seren gomer so ea that ere long they will all be full of witches and their works |