Mari Lwyd

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title: Mari Lwyd
text: The Mari Lwyd is a wassailing folk custom found in South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sheet. The custom was first recorded in 1800, with subsequent accounts of it being produced into the early twentieth century. According to these, the Mari Lwyd was a tradition performed at Christmas time by groups of men who would accompany the horse on its travels around the loca
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description: South Wales Christmas folk custom
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd
date created: 2005-09-22T21:12:36Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T01:34:19Z
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