I have had a fascinating chat with Hywel Bowen-Perkins about the case books of the REAL Joseph Harries -- chemist, physician and (according to legend) wizard of Werndew. I have of course fictionalised him and made him into one of the heroes of the Angel Mountain saga. He lived a bit later than the fictionalised character -- he was born in 1830 and died in 1890. He lived in Werndew and Glan y Mor at the eastern end of Dinas. Hywel has in his possession some of the case books, literally rescued from a skip. They are quite amazing!! And Hywel (who is a doctor himself) is quite convinced that JH was a sincere and very clever physician who worked very closely with the other doctors in the area. And yet, during his life and especially after his death, the myth of his contacts with the spirit world grew and spread across N Pembs. Why and how did that happen? That's something I am looking into........
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