Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales

by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

CUTTING THE MISTLETOE.

Photo by Abery Builth Wells.

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.

The custom of sending a pretty Valentine, or an ugly one, of love, or from mere mischief, as the case might be, was very common once in Wales. We do not hear much of Valentines at the present, however, since the Picture Post Cards have become so common.

ST. DAVID’S DAY.

St. David is the Patron Saint of Wales, and strange to say the only Welsh Saint in the Calendar of the Western Church (Canonized by Calixtus II.) more than five hundred years after his death.