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| wales culture |
| The traditional customs of Wales call for laughter, music, flowers and feasts to celebrate love and marriage and special occasions and holidays throughout the year. Its legends tell brave tales of men and women's heroic deeds and its myths bring forth scary creatures hiding in various parts of the land. |
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wales art |
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| The situation of Welsh art and its institutions is one much affected by the peculiarities of the country’s history, history that features remarkably in the work of many artists today, who feel that without a complete resolution of issues it throws up, no genuine progress can be possible. |
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welsh lovespoons |
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| The tradition of giving a lovespoon as a romantic gesture to your intended dates back many centuries. Carved from one single piece of wood, the lovespoon has a wealth of romantic symbolism and meaning. |
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harvest customs |
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| Gatherings on hilltops or beside lakes in Wales at the beginning of August were not, in the last three centuries at least, connected to a specified ‘beginning of the harvest’ festival like Lúnasa in Ireland. |
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Folklores |
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| Folklore says villagers in Llangernyw, midway between Abergele and Llanrwst, learn their grim fate from a supernatural being under the boughs of a 3,000-year-old yew tree. |
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