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Graham Watkins
Nov 20, 20204 min read
The Wreckers of Cefn Sidan
The Wreckers of Cefn Sidan 'Gwyr-y-Bwyelli Bach' The people with little hatchets. The Captain of the La Jeune Emma peered through the...
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Graham Watkins
Sep 4, 20204 min read
The Devil's Bridge
The widow, Marged, lived on the south bank of Afon Mynach. For company she kept a little dog and a cow. Each morning, as the sun’s...
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Graham Watkins
Jul 23, 20205 min read
Welsh Legends and Myths - King Arthur
In the Welsh legends Arthur’s sword Excalibur was ‘Caledfwlch.’ In the stories the sword was used to kill an Irish king.
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Graham Watkins
Jun 19, 20204 min read
The Legend of the Lonely Shepherd
The shepherd spent his days on the mountains of Llangattock. It was a solitary life, wet and cold in winter, hot and dry in summer. Each...
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Graham Watkins
Jun 5, 20204 min read
The Devil Dogs of Marchwiel.
'Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread… because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.' The Rhyme...
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Graham Watkins
May 20, 20204 min read
The Lady of Llyn y Fan
Many years ago in the village of Llanddeusant in the county of Carmarthenshire a young man lived with his mother. Their home was...
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Graham Watkins
Sep 8, 20194 min read
Owain Glyndwr
These signs have mark’d me extraordinary; And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. King Henry IV -...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 25, 20195 min read
Maelgwn Gwynedd and the Yellow Eye
"... you the last I write of but the first and greatest in evil, more than many in ability but also in malice, more generous in giving...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 15, 20193 min read
The Sleeping Prince of Carreg Cennen
Beneath a rocky outcrop, topped by Carreg Cennen Castle, there is a cave that reaches deep into the bowels of the earth. Within this cold...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 5, 20195 min read
Tom Wellies takes a Bath
A short story reproduced from my anthology 'A Walk in The Woods' Thomas Jones was a farmer and, like other farmers in the valley, he wore...
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Graham Watkins
Jul 14, 20193 min read
The Red Bandits of Mawddwy
Hen ddwyediad lleol – ‘Tri pheth o Fawddwy a ddaw, Dyn cas, nod cas, a glaw’. Old local saying – ‘Three things come from Mawddwy, hateful...
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Graham Watkins
Apr 7, 20194 min read
The Rape of Wales
After conquering the Silure, the last resisting Welsh tribe, in AD 76, Governor Frontinus began the next phase of Roman occupation;...
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Graham Watkins
Mar 10, 20194 min read
The Spirit of Llandegla.
It was Sunday morning and Llandegla Parish Church was full. The congregation waited, patiently at first and then with increasing...
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Graham Watkins
Feb 10, 20195 min read
The Mermaid of Cemaes Head
Peregrine was a fisherman, like his father and his grandfather before him, a hard workingman used to the harsh life of working the nets...
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Graham Watkins
Jan 15, 20195 min read
The Robber’s Grave
In the early 1800s Montgomery was a thriving market town. A plaque on Broad Street tells us that in 1840 over 50 tradesmen were based in...
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Graham Watkins
Dec 31, 201814 min read
Giving Something Back
I belong to a writer's group in Llandovery whose ages range from seventeen to even older than me - and I'm a fossil. Last year the group,...
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Graham Watkins
Nov 9, 20186 min read
The Smugglers of Culver hole.
In 1702, a new crown treasury department was established, the Salt Office. A tax on salt had existed since 1644 but an expensive war with...
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Graham Watkins
Oct 25, 20184 min read
Dafydd Gam - The Cross Eyed Knight
Fluellen: "If your Majesty is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their...
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Graham Watkins
Sep 26, 20184 min read
Hywel's Law
After the Romans departed, Wales split into small kingdoms. One of them was the kingdom of Seisyllwg. Ruled from Dinefwr (Llandeilo),...
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