A LLANGATHEN TALE.
The following appeared in “Apparitions in Wales” by Rev. Edmund Jones, and it is a story of long ago:
“Some years ago one Jane Wyat, my wife’s sister, being nurse to Baronet Rudd’s three children, and his Lady being dead, his house-keeper going late into a chamber where the maid servants lay, saw five of these lights together: while after that chamber being newly plastered, a great grate of coal fire was kindled therein to hasten the drying of it. At night five of the maid servants went there to bed as these were wont, and in the morning were all found dead, and suffocated with the steam of the new tempered lime and coal.”
This was at Llangathen, in Carmarthenshire.