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Crumbs from the Witch's Apron
Barclodiad y Gawres
This structure has been mistakenly identified as a neolithic tomb from around 3000 years ago, tellingly known as a “passage tomb”. It was formed from stones brought there by a witch using a charmed wrap. It is in fact a standard portal to an otherworld. You should not attempt to use this portal unless you have the correct swyn and the skill to use it, otherwise YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RETURN. We advise hiring a professinal bard or gwrach for this.
Annwfynwyr (Plant Annwfn) are at best unhelpful to visitors and may behave erratically. At worst they may be hostile. IF you are able to perform advanced swynion then please feel free to use the spiral glyphs in the portal walls but do not carve your own.
The correct recipe is wrasse (whole, available locally), eel fin, frog (leg), eye of toad, snake (non-venomous), foot of hare (or rabbit if unavailable), shrew (whole). (We accept no responsibility for any paradamage to persons or property through inexpert use of portals).
To visit, please make an appointment with the key holder at the Spar in Llanfaelog. Post an account (or photo or video of your journey to the otherworld).
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Local Knowledge
I heard the story about a shoemaker tricking a husband and wife pair of giants who wanted to settle on the island. The wife was carrying a massive pile of stones in her apron, supposedly to help build a shelter for them while they terrorised their locality. The brutes approached the frightened and small shoemaker, the husband snarling when he said that they were looking for a place to settle. He asked 'oh uhhhh whereabouts then?' to which they replied 'Anglesey'.
Although frightened by the pair, he quickly caught on that they had no idea that they were, in fact, right where they wanted to be! So he came up with a plan to trick the pair. He asked then to follow him and led them across the island towards the coast and pointed to Ireland, saying 'if it's Anglesey you are looking for, then there it is over there'.
This trick worked, the giants were caught unaware and were furious. The giants wife, in a huff, turned to his husband and yelled there was no way she was going to swim across the sea with all these stones in her apron and so dumped them on the coast.
Both giants, feeling dejected, left the island never to be seen again.
Arwyn Owen