All right. Can people hear me and see the screen? Yes.
Looking good. OK. All right. Well, you'll be pleased to know I'm not going to be talking about cheese.
You'll have to forgive the somewhat cliched image.
But the supernatural in Wales is very much like I was sheep, actually.
I'm sure that for every one person, there is at least three stories of ghosts.
So wizards or witches that they could recount either from their own experience or from that of the community and by community.
I mean these physical communities, because the supernatural in Wales is always deeply rooted to a physical fight,
whether that's a village or a house, a community, a mountain.
Naturally, we're in Wales, Awale, a castle, a beach or a bridge.
It's very topographical.
And, you know, within a Mankins and glacial lakes to go around, then it's no wonder that the landscape attracts and inspires the supernatural.
Now, there are some obvious examples that I can think of, maybe not obvious to a non Welsh audience,
but when it comes to a sense of place, we have, for instance,
at the village of Chandana in Angasi,
renowned for its beautiful sandy beach and its which is supposedly they landed back in sixteen or seventeen, eighteen century city.
And they settled in the area. And became known as the Shans on the Witch.
They lived by Bacon and Kherson. They were renowned for their kids.
And in fact and their famous curse is the only complete Welsh language to that.
I'm aware of that. And some survived. Now we head into another village, a small village in Mongolia, Russia, called Shan.
And this area was famous for its journey on horseback.
So it's coming man or men skilled in all of fortune-telling.
Come to magic. And. And healing cattle from about 1862 to the 1940s.
The area was famed for their dannion head. And this gentleman here, Evan Briska cringe.
Or the conjuror, as they would say colloquially, was one of the most famous of these men.
And there's lots and lots of references to this in popular accounts of magical belief, some supernatural around this time,
if we had to then be again, another market town in North Wales can be, on the other hand, was famous for its Jadwin winning side.
So it's coming. Women and Fairleigh, the example you can see here was one of Denby's finest.
I absolutely love any any excuse to bring her out and showcase showcases.
And she's seen this portrayed was painted by Edward Pale.
He was an artist and he told North Wales in the early 19th century.
And he visited Fallon and had a consultation with him.
Lots and lots of information about gay practises, not just in eggless pages, but in Welsh ballads and into.
So we do know quite, quite a lot. About two now as well as sheep.
We have lots and lots of Holywell in Wales. We're not short on these Eisenach.
It's a darker side to this image. You can see here is of fine on anyone, I think aliens.
Well, and then be sure it's one of Wales's most famous coups in Wales.
It's a reputation that it gained in the 18th century, peaked in the 1980s,
mainly around the activities of John Evans, also known as Jack of Unknown, Jack the Whale.
He became keeper of the whale sometime in about 1820.
I don't quote me on that or Roundup time again.
Lots of written evidence on this. Some by John himself.
But in terms of how this site is sort of interpreted from a heritage perspective, from a cultural perspective, there's not a lot we need.
I mean, the locality might have something to do with that. If it's on private land and it's it's quite hidden.
It's quite remote. But, yeah.
So that aspect of its history from if you were to visit, you know, coming from a heritage farm to live still remains quite hidden.
But what I believe about today in this little ruined cottage in Pennant, a village in Costa Kensha,
which was the home of my very best friend fashion, Vitek is the name of the cottage.
And being Welsh for old Chad. The house was built in a hole, Chad.
And that was where Martin live. Now, my story is quite unique.
She was a reputed which various oral testimonies to her activities and practises
that have been recorded by the Sound Archive in St. Fuckin National History Museum.
And there's lots of testimonies of locals who remember Maari and recounting their experiences and beliefs surrounding who.
So as I said, she was a reputed witch. Apparently, she had a very dubious look about her with a long hook nose.
And she wore a shawl over her head, which gave her the appearance of the witch.
Well, it's not really clear. How could they? Let's be honest.
She also spoke in a very distinctive way and which I find quite interesting because it reminds me of how people believe the fairies communicated.
So a lot of a lot of them know close to Panopto.
Mari spoke quietly, softly and charming in her way of speaking now charming in the sense of the word used was so,
you know, so it kind of indicates that it was maybe a musical and lyrical quality to how she felt.
She sometimes went to chapel as a therapy, which is wrong.
But the minister was quite wary of acknowledging your presence.
And Mari was a little bit picky about the communion branch as well, which was always kind of left under his feet.
Any misfortune in the area was actually attributed to Molly.
David Jones, a local farmer. He believed Marryat bewitched his character and because he 14 of his cows bolted in when
you and a horse that he was due to sell broke its leg before he was due to go to market.
Now, he was usually quite mindful, he says, to send Mara a bag of flour and just just to keep on the good side.
But he'd obviously missed a couple of delivery slots in this instance.
Now, Molly as well was seen on several occasions to have snakes, to carry snakes, which is quite interesting.
Dan Edwards, he was only a young boy when he saw Mallory with an a friend.
And when he told it to put them down, she she said they were her children and she praised them on another occasion.
She was carrying a load of firewood, which when she threw on the fireplace, turned out to be a dozens and dozens of snakes.
And again, I think when Gunn sort of questioned her on this, she told them that they were a great company, too.
I mean, the poor boy must have been absolutely terrified to function.
So she's an interesting case, Mollari, not just because of the deep and a logical motive around her,
which don't happen a lot in cases of witchcraft, but commentator as well.
It put me in public mood. I mean. It's the Rubins can still be seen.
And it's a very small one. So we can tell you from the photographs, I'm just two rooms with a fireplace in each room,
windows at the front, because there's a cottage pressed against a stone outcrop.
So it's been a very ruinous state.
And again, in terms of any kind of heritage or exportation or punches to this cottage, well, as you can probably tell, there isn't any.
Now, if we compare this to, say, Penda hair one.
Again, the site of a very famous witch trials, witch trials back in 60, Twila's.
The situation couldn't be more different. And it's been very successful in attracting heritage lottery funding for the area.
It's a famous spot for the trial. But it's also a natural history, a natural conservation spot on an acre of outstanding, outstanding natural beauty.
Now, the link with the on witch trials is off the hook, if you like,
is the unique selling point to attracting people to an area not necessarily of supernatural significance, but all natural and conservation interests.
They also uncovered a witches cottage near the area as well.
And while we were doing some engineering works back in 2011. So, again, this supernatural element to pen to hand has worked very well for the FBI.
It's been quite successful in attracting money from trust and as an area of a cultural heritage destination.
That supernatural phone, that hook is being as requite round became to home.
And like I said, the situation could not be more different when it comes to Morrie's cottage and indeed the wider community and Panopto.
I mean, if you didn't know about Morri and his story, which let's face it, not many,
not like he that many people do, you would need to know that the cottage was there.
Even if you did if you were to go to the area, you would probably be give me some very typical Welsh directions to find in it,
such as will the baby go up the hill over the bridge does not make it any more random.
Monken and turn left by the old person who was flying in the sky, which is pretty much the directions I was given when I came home.
Is it the same now? I can't help it.
We can focus on this, really. That's. This,
the lack of any kind of cultural or heritage interpretation around MA resculpted the community much
more widely is perhaps a reflection of the academic and historical interpretation of mommy's story.
No way of unlike in trying to connect in Tehran and mass trials.
So because it's not the worst experience of witchcraft, more often than not being sadly overlooked.
It has to be said. Hi, my Farfel Juliet.
And this is true also of the battle seems to do without things like continuation from the art in the 19th century, you know,
talking about witchcraft and certain genealogical aspects as well to Morris practises and the beliefs surrounding her.
Also, I think there's a question as well about how we treat the supernatural in history.
There's something still quite Victorian, I think, in how information on supernatural is recorded and conveyed and understood.
So I'm ending this talk. We leave with a question because this does raise the important question of how historians and heritage experts
come back to work together to ensure that these layers of history and supernatural or otherwise a copy reveals.
So fantasy time will be one.