Snake Rings Or Glain Nadroedd
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BIRDS AND BEASTS.
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Welsh Folk-lore
Mention is made in Camden of snake rings. Omitting certain remarks not
connected with the matter directly, he writes:--In some parts of Wales
we find it a common opinion of the vulgar that about Midsummer Eve
(though in the time they do not all agree) 'tis usual for snakes to meet
in companies, and that by joyning heads together and hissing, a kind of
Bubble is form'd like a ring about the head of one of them, which the
his undertakings. The above quotation is in Gibson's additions to
Camden, and it correctly states the popular opinion. Many of these rings
formerly existed, and they seemed to be simply glass rings. They were