Welsh UFO Sightings 1848

Welsh UFO sightings from 1848. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS

The Principality of May 5th 1848 reported on some modern charms...

CHARMS AND WITCHCRAFT.—EVILS OF DISSENT.

Wales was formerly the land of witchcraft and charms. Fairies, elfs, and goblins enjoyed uninterrupted possession from Holyhead to Cardiff; and from Llandrillo-yn-y-rhos to St. David's. Corpse candles were more numerous than the dead; and spiritual agents mustered in greater strength than the corporeal. Such was Wales in the sunny days of State Church-ism, when the country was in the hands of the Government educators.

Since then, that naughty thing, Welsh Dissent, has reigned supreme, and these beauties have become matters of history and not of fact. At the success of Dissent, ghosts have become surly and will not appear. Fairies have no fellow feeling with it, and have returned to their subterranean paradise, and are determined to remain there. The corpse candles became so displeased at the people's presumption in leaving, the Church, as to extinguish themselves and leave mortals in utter darkness of their fate. These sad losses we have suffered on account of Dissent.

Where that intruder has not arrived, primitive usages still prevail. Ghosts visit the simple rustics to reward their adherence to the Church of their fathers, and grant to certain of their most devout worshippers powers of which poor Welsh Dissenters are ignorant. In Radnorshire, that noble country, so distinguished for the absence of the ugly Welsh and the presence of the beautiful English, these venerable practices are still being carried on. In an address lately delivered at Hay, the Rev. Henry Jones, a Dissenting minister from Radnorshire, enumerated the following charms, which he found in the neighbourhood where he resides.

We hear that Mr. Jones, as a Welsh Dissenter, has announced his intention of making war on the venerable tribe of ghosts, conjurors, fortune-tellers, and charmers. Another sad result of naughty Dissent! The charms are the following:—

1st. For an insane person. —The 1st 14 verses of the 1st chap, of the Gospel of St. John, to be written round the edges, the middle being left a blank; a circle is then drawn, through which two lines are traced crossing each other upon the diameter line. The name of the individual is written, and under it the date of the month and year.

2nd. For a Wound. —Our Saviour was born in Bethlehem, and crucified on Mount Calvary, and his head was crowned with nails and thorns, and never whealed nor festered, so may not this cut never wheal or fester, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

3rd. For a Taching.-From the earth it came, and to the earth let it return, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

4th. For the Stopping of Blood.—Our Saviour was born, in' Bethlehem and baptised in the river Jordan. That water was wild, that water was good, He commanded, and still it stood. So I command this blood to stand, in the name of the Father, rest blood, in the name of the Son, rest blood, in the name of the Holy Ghost, Amen, Amen.

5th. For the Tooth Ache. —Peter sat at the gate of Jerusalem, and our Saviour and the Apostles by, and he said, what aileth thee, Peter? and Peter said, Lord, my tooth are sore, that I cannot eat nor drink and the Lord said, Peter arise, and be of good faith, and thy teeth shall be made whole. Or the name of the individual being sad and sorrowful, come before the feet of Jesus. Jesus saith unto Peter, what aileth thee? Peter saith unto Jesus: Jesus, Jesus, my teeth doth ache. Jesus saith unto Peter, take up thy cross and follow me, and thy teeth shall no more ache, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

6th. For a Beast Sunk in the Shoulder. —Hair to hair, skin to skin', flesh to flesh, sinew to sinew, bone to bone, come up shoulder bone, in the name of the Father,, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. Or, As Jesus lay under a marble stone, Siniew to sinew, bone to bone, All in their places, every one,- And let thy blessed will be done. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen, Amen.

7th. For a Burn. There was two angels in the east, One brought fire the other brought frost, Out fire, in frost,. In' the name of the Father, Sony and Holy Ghost, Amen. Or, Mary mild, burnt chitd, out fire, in frost, in the iiairie of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen.