{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/bim1/bim1102.htm","path":"neu/celt/bim1/bim1102.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/bim1/bim1102.htm","text":"The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Vol. I., ed. by J. Williams Ab Ithel, [1862]\nTo consociate with evil will make one the lowest and meanest of all animated beings; therefore a wicked man,\nwhen he dies, and his soul enters the meanest worm 1 in existence, becomes better, and ascends in the migration of Abred. From this has arisen the saying,--\"Trample not on thy better,\" addressed to one who tramples on a worm voluntarily, and without a cause.\n245:1 p. 244 \"Pryf,\" a worm, originally written prif, probably obtained its name from its being the first prif = primus--link in the chain of Abred.\nThere seems to be some allusion to the doctrine enunciated here in those lines by Casnodyn, A.D. 1290-1340;\nThou didst prepare the slough of hell suitable for Satan;\n The habitation for worms, where they will be in mutual strife.","title":"Barddas, Vol. I: Theology: Abred","type":"page"}