mind indicate a phase of faith antagonistic
to, and therefore more ancient than, Christianity.

With another quotation from _Tales of the Cymry_ (p. 61-62), I will
conclude my remarks:--

"In the north of Devon the spectral pack are called Yesh hounds and
Yell hounds. There is another legend, evidently of Christian origin,
which represents them in incessant pursuit of a lost spirit. In the
northern quarter of the moor the Wish hounds, in pursuit of the
spirit of a man who had been well known in the country, entered a
cottage, the door of which had been incautiously left open, and ran
round the kitchen, but quietly, without their usual cry. The Sunday
after the same man appeared in church, and the person whose house the
dogs had entered, made bold by the consecrated place in which they
were, ventured to ask why he had been with the Wish hounds. 'Why
should not my spirit wander,' he replied, 'as well as another man's?'
Another version represents the hounds as following the spirit of a
beautiful woman, changed into the form of a hare; and the reader will
find a similar legend, with some remarkable additions, in the
Disquisitiones Magicae of the Jesuit Delrio, lib. vi., c.2."

The preceding paragraph is from the pen of "R.J.K.," and appears in the
_Athenaeum_, March 27, 1847, Art. Folk-lore.

_The Fairy Cow_.

There are many traditions afloat about a wonderful cow, that supplied
whole neighbourhoods with milk, which ceased when wantonly wasted. In
some parts of England this is called the Dun Cow; in Shropshire she
becomes also the _White Cow_; in Wales she is, _Y Fuwch Frech_, or _Y
Fuwch Gyfeiliorn_. This mystic cow has found a home in many places. One
of these is the wild mountain land between Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr and a
hamlet called Clawdd Newydd about four miles from Ruthin. About midway
between these two places is a bridge called Pontpetrual, and about half a
mile from the bridge to the north is a small mountain farm called _Cefn
Bannog_, and near this farm, but on the unenclosed mountain, are traces
of primitive abodes, and it was here that, tradition says, the _Fuwch
Frech_ had her home. But I will now give the history of this strange cow
as I heard it from the mouth of Thomas Jones, Cefn Bannog.

_Y Fuwch Frech_. _The Freckled Cow_.

In ages long gone by, my informant knew not how long ago, a wonderful cow
had her pasture land o