Davies up North
cynnal cwltrin
A seasonal upload. If ever there was a haunting this was it. A form of social policing it roughly translates as nurturing whilst chastising or tough love. If a couple fought or raised a hand to one another in public a group would gather, steal an item of clothing from each member of the couple. Usually shoes, and then put them on life size dummies of the two. Carry them all around the boundary of the parish accompanied by rough music made with pots and pans, yelling and screaming. Culminating in a bonfire being built outside the 'offenders' house and the dummies being burnt 'alive' whilst the real couple were haunted until sun up.
This one depicts the last such incident recorded in my village at Tŷ Glân Dŵr in 1904. The couple in question can be seen in the window
cynnal cwltrin
A seasonal upload. If ever there was a haunting this was it. A form of social policing it roughly translates as nurturing whilst chastising or tough love. If a couple fought or raised a hand to one another in public a group would gather, steal an item of clothing from each member of the couple. Usually shoes, and then put them on life size dummies of the two. Carry them all around the boundary of the parish accompanied by rough music made with pots and pans, yelling and screaming. Culminating in a bonfire being built outside the 'offenders' house and the dummies being burnt 'alive' whilst the real couple were haunted until sun up.
This one depicts the last such incident recorded in my village at Tŷ Glân Dŵr in 1904. The couple in question can be seen in the window