“The cat and the weasel shall come down along the banks of Towy;
The greyhound and the fox shall come into the town of Aber honddu,” (Brecon).
It is believed that the train has fulfilled these sayings.
In the Vale of Towy, near Abergwili, there is a large stone in a field belonging to Tyllwyd farm. I went to see it myself, and several people in the neighbourhood informed me that a young man was killed when digging under this stone in search of hidden treasure, and that Merlin had prophesied about this.
According to another prophecy of Merlin a fearful catastrophe awaits the town of Carmarthen:—
“Llanllwch a fu,
Caerfyrddin a sudd,
Abergwili a saif.”
(Llanllwch has been,
Carmarthen shall sink,