Mari lwyd

Stephen Price ‘Give us rhyme for rhyme through the wood of the door Then open the door if you fail’ Mari Lwyd, the mysterious and menacing cloaked horse, is perhaps one of our most spectacular winter traditions. Her ghostly skull and white robes, baubles for eyes and a mane of translucent colours prove an unsettling, […]

Mari Lwyd 💀🐴🌲✨ The Mari Lwyd custom was performed during winter festivities, it’s thought to be a pre-Christian Welsh tradition believed to bring good luck. #throwback

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The holiday season is upon us, bringing with it mistletoe, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and skeletal horses demanding entrance to our homes. Yes, it is nearly time for the annual appearance …

It’s hard to know how many folklore traditions started, or where they have come from. Mari Lwyd is one such Welsh tradition.

In the past few years, the Mari Lwyd tradition has taken on something of a cult status which has seen it begin to morph again, and move into new territory with modern Pagans, and people somewhere in that margin between Goths and almost-Pagans, taking an interest.

“When Mari Lwyd finally got her treats”

The Mari Lwyd