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Nanteos Cup

A wooden mazer bowl held at Nanteos House in Wales, popularly credited with healing powers from around 1836; folklorist Juliette Wood found no credible reference connecting it to the Grail tradition before 1905.

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  • Holy Grail

    Nanteos Cup was identified as Holy Grail — Popular Grail identification dates only to around 1905, per folklorist Juliette Wood's research; no credible reference connects the cup to the Grail tradition before then.

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