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Satan Taking Possession Of A Man Who Fished On Sunday

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Elias Owen
Welsh Folk-Lore
Elliot Stock, London
1896
Wales
Satan Taking Possession Of A Man Who Fished On Sunday: possession, Sabbath-breaking, and divine warning.
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Satan Taking Possession Of A Man Who Fished On Sunday

"About half a mile from Cynwyd is the 'Mill Waterfall,' beneath which there is a deep linn or whirlpool, where a man, who was fishing there on Sunday, once found an enormous fish. 'I will catch him, though the D---l take me,' said the presumptuous man. The fish went under the fall, the man followed him, and was never afterwards seen." Such is the tale, but it is, or was believed, that Satan had changed himself into a fish, and by allurement got the man into his power and carried him bodily to the nethermost regions.

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