Fortune Teller Creates a Strange Panic.
A Llanelly telegram states that the colliers in the mining village of Trimsaran, which was the scene of a terrible fatality about twelve months ago, resulting in the death of ten men, are panic-stricken, and decline to enter the pits, in consequence of the statement of a fortune-teller, who stated that the mines would be flooded and many men drowned. The pits are now idle.
Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 14 January 1908.
The refusal of the Welsh colliers of Trimsaran to enter the pits in consequence of warnings of a fortune-teller may seem at first sight a case of grossest superstition. The miners have probably been superstitious from one generation to another, but an incredibly large number of educated classes, in the reaction against utilitarianism and the doctrines of hard fact, have fallen back upon old fancies and myths, if only for their romantic interest. -- "Tribune".
Belfast Telegraph, 15 January 1908.
Scaring the Miners.
A Clairvoyant fined.
At Llanelly yesterday, a professional clairvoyant named Madame St. Leonard was fined £5 and costs amounting to about the same sum for fortune telling. It appears that the seeress, among other things, predicted a colliery accident at Trimsaran, a village outside the town, and the superstitious miners refused to go down the pit, which gives employment to 200 men. Some workmen, it was stated, had been idle a month, while others had left the place for good. The village has, however, regained its normal state.
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 18th Februry 1908.
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