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.

民间传说欧兰格纳的村民从一棵三千岁的紫杉树的主枝下的一个超自然生物那儿得知自己的残酷命运。

每年的万圣节或是一月三十一日，据说安吉尔斯特会出现在中世纪欧兰格纳的教堂里。在这些日子，威尔士教堂会很神圣得宣布那些不久将要死亡的人的名单。

民间传说，一个万圣节时，一个叫尚.爱普的裁缝在一个地方酒吧喝酒时蔑视安吉尔斯特的想法。和他一起喝酒的人试探他是否有勇气去教堂看看这个故事是不是毫无根据的。

受到刺激的尚.爱普向教堂走去。当他达到门口时，听到里面有一个声音正在念名字。他听到的第一个名字就是自己的名字。

“等一下，等一下！”他大叫道。“我还没有准备好呢！”但是不管有没准备好，不久他就死了。

欧兰格纳的教堂本身已有好几世纪的历史，但是它所在的那块地早在它建造时就已有成千上万的神圣历史了

教堂里有威尔士最古老的收藏品——一棵紫杉树，植物学家认为它应该有超过三千岁——从它的起源到中世纪的青铜时代。教堂的奇特地方是两块矗立的石头，它大概也是在那个时候的异教徒建造的吧！

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