Monday, October 13, 2014
Mari Lwyd
The Mari Lwyd, the Gray Mare, is a Welsh midwinter tradition. It is a
luck-bringing ritual in which the participants accompany a person
disguised as a horse, complete with horse skull, from house to house and
sing at each door in exchange for food and money. At My Good Babushka.
Labels:
art,
fairy tale,
folk lore,
good luck,
horse skull,
Mari Lwyd,
painting,
welsh custom,
Welsh history,
winter,
winter forest
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