FOLK LORE OF WALES

*No. 3. Meddygon Myddvai*.—On the heights of the Black Mountains, in Caermarthenshire, lies a dark-watered lake, known by the name of *Lyn y Van Vach*. As might be predicated, from the wild grandeur of its situation, as well as from the ever-changing hues which it takes from the mountain shadows, many a superstition—gloomy or beautiful—is connected with its history. Amongst these may be reckoned the legend of the *Meddygon Myddvai* or "surgeons of Myddvai." Tradition affirms that "once upon a time" a man who dwelt in the parish of Myddvai led his lambs to graze on the borders of this lake; a p…