Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — A Welsh Legend. [ARTICLE]

A Welsh Legend.

In Wales there is a legend of Irish smugglers who arrived at Llanddona many years ago in a boat without rudder or oars. They were looked upon, according to the Irish custom of sending malefactors to a sea doom in this plight, as outlaws. However, they had been allowed to land, and a spring of water bursting forth in the sand at the place was taken as a sign of their right to a refuge. But they ill repaid the Welsh. The men lived by smuggling, the women by witchcraft. It was not possible to overcome the smugglers in a fray, for each carried about with him a black fly tied in a knot of his kerchief, and the moment the knot was undone the fly flew at the eyes of the opponents and blinded them. If the Llanddona witches attended a market and hid for anything no one ventured to bid against them.