Sometimes you stumble upon the Holy Grail of folklore finds (short of finding the Grail itself).

A while back, I was contacted by an antiques dealer in Ceredigion who’d found two envelopes tucked away in the back of an old chest of drawers on which they wanted my opinion…
[🧵] While the envelopes had already been opened at some point in the past, scrawled in black ink was an ominous warning: ‘not to bee open at all’.

Inside, were folded three brittle and yellowed sheets of paper, each covered in the same crabbed handwriting…