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SOME FOLK-LORE OF SOUTH WALES. By T. H. THOMAS. The notes following represent a portion of a Lecture, illus- trated by slides of the localities mentioned and objects connected with the folk-lore. It will be perceived, on perusal, that vast regions of such lore are untouched on account of limited space. The Serpent, the Eagle, the Raven, and their qualities, weird or healing, are not mentioned, nor have we touched the Fairy-lore, offering a wide field, which, however, has been considerably worked, especially by the late Hon. Wirt Sikes, in his British Goblins," a work in which the writer, to some extent, collaborated. Nor is any mention made herein of a class of stories of high interest and as yet un- worked, namely, the adaptation of the old existing tales to the conditions of modern life in a greatly extending mining district. Tales of elf, goblin, ghost find an apt development in the coal-pit, with its darkness and risk to life and limb, and a chapter might well be written upon the strange way in which olden stories re-appear, brought up to date," and adapted to their surroundings. Nor have old customs, such as Morris Dancers, the Mari-lwyd, and the Rhodd Calenig, or New Year's Gift, been treated. ARTHURIAN LEGENDS. As South Wales is so definitely the land of King Arthur it may justly be expected that in the folk-lore of the country we should find him represented. Accordingly we have three spots, each of marked character, which have stories connecting them with the great King of Romance; King Arthur's Round Table" at Caerleon, probably simply a pseudo-historical attribution unconnected with the underlying mythological