The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . on. There is another that comesup, all dripping, out of the streams and frightensthe lonely shepherd boy or girl. There are other queer creatures you had betternot meet: snakes that have underground treasuresto guard, corpse-lights moving where no light shouldbe, funeral-dogs, and cunning old reprobate grizzledfoxes that have lived far too long and seen far toomuch. Worst of all, there are wicked, grey-headedhares that it is not at all safe to meddle with. There are wise-men and wise-women still that itis not safe to meddle with either; a tr
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . on. There is another that comesup, all dripping, out of the streams and frightensthe lonely shepherd boy or girl. There are other queer creatures you had betternot meet: snakes that have underground treasuresto guard, corpse-lights moving where no light shouldbe, funeral-dogs, and cunning old reprobate grizzledfoxes that have lived far too long and seen far toomuch. Worst of all, there are wicked, grey-headedhares that it is not at all safe to meddle with. There are wise-men and wise-women still that itis not safe to meddle with either; a tradition ofthe old half-magical practice of medicine still sur-vives. We are wise enough now to admit the exist-ence of certain powerful individualities, naturalhealers gifted with magnetic force, and to believein the sympathetic power of the will, and to recog-nise that those healers at times got hold of some-thing that our hospitals cannot teach. Personally,I have known remarkable instances of cures,especially of hydrophobia, by very extraordinary.
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