The A-Z of Curious Wales

The A-Z of Curious Wales gathers stories from across the country, arranged alphabetically but ranging freely across folklore, history, crime, customs and eccentric personalities. Mark Rees considers fairy traditions, ghostly accounts, ancient sites, peculiar landscapes and the stories attached to Welsh places and objects.

Among the subjects are the Mari Lwyd, carried from door to door at Christmastime, Parys Mountain’s copper-scarred landscape in Anglesey, and an inventor’s plan for a futuristic ray gun. The book also traces the folklore of the red dragon, examines the origins of “Sosban Fach”, and considers curious traditions, hidden histories and reported mysteries from Wales’ past and present.