Show an old welsh custom the kindling of 0 bonfires on hills Is the F simplest n I 1 ot celebrations at anytime any time the druies druids 4 mado four great fires nt at their festl festi tali in n february may alay august and november wales seems to have been a country especially tenacious of this custom each family used to make its own fire and aa as etwas it was dying out each member would throw a white stone into it the stones being marked for future identification then all said their prayers and went to bed and in the morning they tried to find all the stoll stones again if any sto stone was missing it betokened that tho the owner of it would die within a year some superstitions are pretty and picturesque tur esque esquo and attractive this was one of the many wb which ich were cruel as well as picturesque tur esque it would take but a slight accident to cause ft a fright that might be actually dangerous toa to a superstitious person and it would not be hard for an enemy of such a person to cause that th at fright by atea ing his stone from tho the fire new york tribune |