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Delyth Badder Aug 8, 2023

Winning the crown must be nice, but give me the thrill of finding one of Wales's rarest books on an Eisteddfod stall any day!

Over the moon to *finally* own one of 50 copies ever printed of 'Rhai o Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru' (Some of Wales's Old Conjurers) by J. H. Davies (1901)! 🧙🏻‍♂️

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Delyth Badder Jul 27, 2023

But... this particular copy is of even greater interest, containing extensive handwritten additions and having previously been in the ownership of islander and artist, Sir Kyffin Williams. The book was gifted by him to Annwen Carey-Evans, the High Sheriff of Gwynedd in 1992.

Delyth Badder Jul 27, 2023

This has been a very good week for books...

Latest acquisition is this fine 1766 edition of Mona Antiqua Restaurata by Rev Henry Rowlands of Llanidan, Ynys Môn. Rowlands's fieldwork of the island's ancient monuments was responsible for popularising Druidic culture in the C18th.

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Delyth Badder Jul 24, 2023

@_bydbach_ Largely auctions across the UK. Sometimes abebooks or ebay if I'm very lucky. But I've also spent enough over the years that some bookshops will now directly post me old books they think will interest me too 😂

Delyth Badder Jul 24, 2023

Great Scott! Unbelievably, I've just topped the R. S. Thomas discovery with a surprise stash of letters from pioneering Celtic scholar and first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University, Sir John Rhŷs, tucked away inside a 4th ed. of 'The Welsh People' (1906)! 😱

Delyth Badder Jul 22, 2023

Thumbing through my copy of 'An Essay on the Welsh Saints' by Rev Rice Rees (1836) this evening when out slid a letter addressed to the previous owner by none other than... R. S. Thomas 😳

The note is penned in Welsh, and touches upon the history of Eglwys Fach, Machynlleth.

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Tysa chi wedi gofyn i mi ddyfalu be fyddwn i'n ei wneud heno, nid canfod llythyr gan R. S. Thomas yn un o fy hen lyfrau fyddai'r ateb wedi bod... 📚

Delyth Badder Jul 22, 2023

Welsh Death Omens and Apparitions: Unveiling the Haunting Legends With Dr. Delyth Badder

My interview about the folk beliefs surrounding death prognostication in Wales - as well as Welsh ghost-lore more generally - with the @haunted_history_chronicles podcast is now out in the wild! 🦉

https://www.podpage.com/haunted-history-chronicles/welsh-death-omens-and-apparitions-unveiling-the-haunting-legends-with-dr-delyth-badder/

Welsh Death Omens And Apparitions: Unveiling The Haunting Legends With Dr. Delyth Badder

In Wales, a land rich in myth and folklore, tales of death omens and apparitions have long held the fascination of its people. Welsh folklore is teeming …

Haunted History Chronicles

Delyth Badder Jul 17, 2023

Finally finished #editing the proofs for 𝘛𝘏𝘌 #𝘍𝘖𝘓𝘒𝘓𝘖𝘙𝘌 𝘖𝘍 #𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘌𝘚: #𝘎𝘏𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘚!

Checking in on bwgan bolól, the shapeshifting bull of Garthgraban Fawr, and the philanthropic #phantom of Bryn Bachau one last time before the Calon team send them to haunt the printers 👻

Delyth Badder Jul 10, 2023

Latest arrival at Carreg Wen's #library: a 1st edition volume of Dafydd ap Gwilym's #poetry (1789).

Compiled by Wales's master literary forger and druidic revivalist, #IoloMorganwg, several of the poems included here represent Iolo's own forgeries, rather than the works of the C14th poet.

Delyth Badder Jul 5, 2023

📣 Join me for a special #Halloween seminar at the #NationalLibraryofWales this October! 🎃

I'll be taking you on a whistle-stop tour of #Wales's ghostly #folklore over the centuries, highlighting the myriad of unique motifs and themes that separates the appearance of the Welsh #spirit from its British counterparts. 👻

Tickets 👇

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/llgcnlw/bo-lol-bogey-with-a-hole-in-its-belly-the-appearance-of-spirits-within-the-welsh-tradition/e-qppkgr