Wedding Customs - British Goblins CT027

Wedding Customs

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881)

Book 3 Chapter 6

by

Wirt Sikes

Ancient Wedding Customs of the Welsh, including the custom of bidding for wedding gifts and the importance of the person doing the Bidding! We learn how to steal a Bride away and how to reform a wife who hen-pecks her husband.

• Wedding Customs 0:54
• The Bidding 1:36
• The Gwahoddwr 3:55
• Forms of Cymmhorth 7:32
• Horse-Weddings 9:43
• Stealing of a Bride 11:24
• Obstructions to the Bridal Party 14:20
• The Gwyntyn 14:32
• Chaining 15:10
• Evergreen Arches 16:56
• Strewing Flowers 17:45
• Throwing Rice and Shoes 18:00
• Rosemary in the Garden 20:22
• Names after Marriage 23:36
• The Coolstrin 24:10
• The Ceffyl Pren 27:49

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Cymmhorth
Gwahoddwr
Gwyntyn
Coolstrin
Ceffyl Pren
Pembroke, Cardigan and Carmarthen
Cardiff
Ty'r Bwci
Llanfair ar y Bryn
Owen Gwynt
Elen Morgan
Llewelyn & Margaret Gwynt
Evan Gwyn, Maes y Blodau
Gwladys & Hannah
Mary Bowen, Llwyn y Fedwen, llannon
Rhys Morgan, Castell y Moch
Howel, Gruffydd, & Gwenllian Morgan
Pant y Clacwydd
Llansadwrn
Cwrw da
Nos Blaen
Priodas Cymmhorth
Cyfarfod Cymmhorth
Merry Andrew

Pic: The Old-Time Gwahoddwr

Carmarthenshire
Glamorganshire
Malkin
'toujours trop tard'
'Les Brigands'

Gwrando, leidr hoyw'r ddafad,
Ai ti sydd yma heddyw'n geidwad?
Ai dyna y rheswmcloi y drysau
Rhag dwyn y wreigan liw dydd goleu

Sketty
Sabines
Apuleius
Sabine Virgins
Rector of Merthyr
Tenby
Herefordshire
Lampeter
Mr. & Mrs. Jones of Glandennis
Roberts of the Dingle
Williams of Pwlldu
Jones of Nevada
John Thomas
Betty Willkiams
Dick Shon
skimitry or skimmington
Clos (breeches)
Breconshire

 

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