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Gathering the Jewels features over 30,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, archives and libraries throughout Wales.
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- Noson Lawen
- Arthurian legends
- Balls
- Christmas cards
- Cursing rituals
- Dragons
- Easter
- Egg clapping
- Fertility symbols
- Fortune telling
- Green man
- Healing stones
- Hunting the wren
- Legend of Gelert
- Legends
- Love rituals
- Mari Lwyd
- Maypoles
- Mysticism and occultism
- Physicians of Myddfai
- Plygain
- Saints' days ('mabsantau')
- Twm Siôn Cati
- Wassailing
- Wells
- Wooden horse ('ceffyl pren')
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