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.

Each year on Hallowe'en and 31 July the Angelystor is said to appear in the medieval church of Llangernyw in Conwy. On those dates it solemnly announces, in Welsh, the names of those parish members who will die shortly after.

According to folklore, one Hallowe'en a tailor called Sh?n ap Robert scorned the idea of Angelystor while drinking in a local pub. His fellow drinkers challenged him to visit the church to prove the story groundless.

Taking up the challenge, ap Robert made his way to the church. But when he arrived at the door he heard a deep voice from within reciting names. And the first name he heard was his own.

"Hold, hold!" he cried. "I am not ready yet!" But, ready or not, he died later that year.

The church at Llangernyw is itself centuries old, but the site it stands on was sacred thousands of years before it was built.

The churchyard contains the oldest living thing in Wales - a yew tree which botanists believe to be over 3,000 years old - dating it's origins to sometime in the prehistoric Bronze Age. Elsewhere in the churchyard are two standing stones, which would have been raised up by pagans at about the same time.

民間傳說(shuō)歐蘭格納的村民從一棵三千歲的紫杉樹(shù)的主枝下的一個(gè)超自然生物那兒得知自己的殘酷命運(yùn)。

每年的萬(wàn)圣節(jié)或是一月三十一日，據(jù)說(shuō)安吉爾斯特會(huì)出現(xiàn)在中世紀(jì)歐蘭格納的教堂里。在這些日子，威爾士教堂會(huì)很神圣得宣布那些不久將要死亡的人的名單。

民間傳說(shuō)，一個(gè)萬(wàn)圣節(jié)時(shí)，一個(gè)叫尚.愛(ài)普的裁縫在一個(gè)地方酒吧喝酒時(shí)蔑視安吉爾斯特的想法。和他一起喝酒的人試探他是否有勇氣去教堂看看這個(gè)故事是不是毫無(wú)根據(jù)的。

受到刺激的尚.愛(ài)普向教堂走去。當(dāng)他達(dá)到門口時(shí)，聽(tīng)到里面有一個(gè)聲音正在念名字。他聽(tīng)到的第一個(gè)名字就是自己的名字。

“等一下，等一下！”他大叫道。“我還沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)備好呢！”但是不管有沒(méi)準(zhǔn)備好，不久他就死了。

歐蘭格納的教堂本身已有好幾世紀(jì)的歷史，但是它所在的那塊地早在它建造時(shí)就已有成千上萬(wàn)的神圣歷史了

教堂里有威爾士最古老的收藏品——一棵紫杉樹(shù)，植物學(xué)家認(rèn)為它應(yīng)該有超過(guò)三千歲——從它的起源到中世紀(jì)的青銅時(shí)代。教堂的奇特地方是兩塊矗立的石頭，它大概也是在那個(gè)時(shí)候的異教徒建造的吧！

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