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mythicmayhemcomic · 6 months

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As winter festivities draw near, the party girl Mari Lwyd stirs.

Wanting to spread some cheer I’ve made a Mari Lwyd base, so you may colour and decorate your own. You may edit the line work, but please do not remove my signatures and copyright info. This base is for non commercial use. If you wish to make adopts with the base consider donating to my ko-Fi.

I’d love to see what your Mari’s will look like.

You can find a transparent and solid base below.

#mythic mayhem #mari lwyd #welsh mythology #mythology #myth #welsh folklore #welsh tradition #base #art base #adopt base #free base #delyth thomas art

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angrybatart · 2 months

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A little out of season, but Mari Lwyd for the six characters challenge. (Holiday spirits count as characters, right?)

Requested by a follower.

#sketch #mythical creatures #Welsh tradition #Mari Lwyd #6 characters challenge #she's here to rap battle you for all the beer in your blog #I see some iterations where she has ears #but she's a skeleton so no ears in my drawing #tried my best to draw a horse skull #wip #to be inked and colored later

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thefeatherwrites · 5 months

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❄️ HLMC December ❄️

Day Twelve: Would your MC win a rap battle against Mari Lwyd?

Julianna: "I remember when I first witnessed this tradition. I just so happened to be at Garreth’s cottage and we had indulged in a lot some firewhisky. We heard a knock at the door and upon opening, a large horse skull scared the absolute shit out of me. A group of strange men began to sing. I thought they were carolers, but turns out they wanted to come inside the house and eat his food..."

"Abso-fucking-lutely not."

Being a Ravenclaw, she is terribly smart. Despite the fifteen minutes the group came up with so many reasons to enter the house, she would come up with five other reasons why it was not in their best interest. In a battle of poetic wit, (mixed with some under the influence swearing), they soon realized they came seriously unarmed.

Garreth could only hold his laugh in at the exchange for so long. He found it adorable that she had absolutely no idea about said tradition and went on to intellectually banter strangers for so long, trying to keep them out of his house.

“That’s my girl.” He whispered to himself lovingly.

He often thought that she could have suited Slytherin, she had quite the silver tongue, especially when she was a bit inebriated. He assured the men afterwards that next time, he would answer the door and do the rhymes properly… if they ever came back.

#hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy mc #hogwarts legacy oc #hl mc #hl oc #hlmcdecember #hogwarts legacy garreth #hogwarts legacy imagine #julianna sinclair #ravenclaw #mari lwyd #welsh tradition #no way you are getting her food #good bye horse

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cosmicdeviant · 2 years

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My Mari Lwyd for Build-Your-Beast! I know she’s a christmas tradition but as a resident of Wales I feel she’s also halloween appropriate!

Check out my instagram for more art!

#helabela #build your beast #mari lwyd #welsh tradition #welsh mythology #artist on tumblr #instagram #artist #original art #my art #cosmicdeviant #halloween #build a beast

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semiferalstreetcoyote · 1 year

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#mari lwyd #mythology #wales #bobs burgers #new jersey #welsh tradition #i have posted about this like 5 times now

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the-cryptic-dive · 1 year

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Mari-Lwyd

Mari-Lwyd is a South Wales folk tale and tradition whose name translates to ‘grey mare’. It is believed to have originally come from Celtic mythology as a creature able to pass from the overworld to the Underworld. Despite her ancient roots, her modern existence is quite fun. Today, Mari-Lwyd is represented by a stick horse with a horse skull and a white sheet that covers the person carrying it around. Many people decorate the skull with things like flower crowns, among other things. The Visit Wales website explains that Mari-Lwyd shows up around Christmas, going from door to door challenging those who open their door to it. Afterward, the residents and the person toting Mari-Lwyd have a round of alcohol and cakes.

#welsh #welsh tradition #welsh folklore #folklore #European #European folklore

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hometoursandotherstuff · 6 months

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#xmas traditions welsh #mari lwyd #welsh xmas horse #other stuff

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leekdraws · 5 months

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Just something to think about when you see Mari Lwyd around social media! I'm from North Wales, and it's been very nice to see a old customs become more popular, even more amusing to see people really taken with Mari Lwyd. There has been a lot of fantastic artwork which I love to see! But, I do notice people not looking into where she comes from, the culture, the history and so on. When I do try to explain on some posts and link to resources, it's largely ignored. Which is a bit of a blow. So let's not just use Mari Lwyd for clicks and likes, otherwise the Welsh'ness and culture is diluted.

(I was playing Among Us recently... and there is a Mari Lwyd costume in that o.o) Here's a little video to explain a bit about Mari Lwyd https://youtu.be/6ptel9C3Zhg?si=yN3O3X7nkw03byyQ

And here is the cultural folk traditions website teaching people about Welsh traditions (some of it is in Welsh!) Trac Cymru – Folk development for Wales / Datblygu traddodiadau Cymru

#Mari Lwyd #Wales #welsh culture #welsh traditions

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aubryjoi · 8 months

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Doggust days 8 & 25: Alaskan Malamute & Pembroke Welsh Corgi! ✨

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horse-freak · 10 months

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Mari lwyd-painted for the Chepstow wassail in 2019

Gouache

#illustration #magic #horse #art #traditional art #painting #gouache #mari lwyd #wales #Welsh #welsh folklore #cymru

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rainbowmancer-gwen · 4 months

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Time to rap battle to horse!

#rap battle #mari lwyd #welsh #wales #traditions

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trans-cuchulainn · 4 months

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your posts about English folk culture being treated as esoteric within England reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad relatively recently. I was complaining about how much I hated doing scottish country dancing in P.E every year in school and he, having grown up in London, mentioned that he never did any kind of folk dancing in school and it really surprised me.

Having an Irish family and growing up in Scotland I just assumed that folk culture would be a big part of national identity in England because it def is in Ireland and scotland. I mean I grew up in the city and I went to a Catholic school where a lot of pupils didn't come from Scottish backgrounds so I'm sure my experience would be different from somebody who grew up in a smaller town or a rural area, but my school still dragged out the girls who could sword dance every year on burns day y'know

Also now I'm wracking my brain trying to remember all the English folk songs I know and realising that it's comparatively few next to the hoard of Scottish, Irish and American folk songs I've accrued over the past 2 decades. That's definitely partially just due to being connected to the cultures those songs come from and that American folk songs are generally quite a bit younger than the scottish & Irish ones, but it's still not something I've ever really thought about

yeah absolutely. it's something england -- and probably urban england and london especially -- has really lost touch with. a lot of my friends and colleagues are irish, and when the topic of things like irish dance comes up, it's always like "oh yeah i did a bit of that as a kid, everyone did" or "yeah i learned the whistle, obviously, but i stopped when i was eight" -- but there'd be no obviously about that here (even when people learn the recorder at school, it's not often trad tunes they're learning to play!)

i don't know if this is to do with the proportion of the population that's urban vs rural in england compared to ireland or scotland (not sure where wales is at with this, they have a strong song tradition but i don't know much about the welsh equiv of trad dance music nor tbh enough about the song tradition to say anything meaningful on the topic), or if it's a "survival of trad culture to spite oppressive dominant cultures" thing so england lost it due to lack of need to defend it, or if it's predominantly a class issue (but that wouldn't wholly explain schools/the national curriculum, particularly at primary level)... i think there's a lot of factors at work

but it's something i do notice because i spend time in those irish-dominated spaces where the attitude towards trad music and dance is so different. but then those are also often irish language communities, so they're specifically irish communities that are interested in their cultural heritage, and maybe that's not representative of the whole country. still, it feels like even people who aren't interested and haven't carried that interest through to adulthood were exposed to it in childhood in a way that many english people weren't because our equivalent traditions have been relegated to this very niche, marginalised (and potentially very rural) status

#sometimes i think i've learned an english folk song but then it turns out it's scottish #it just got written down by an english song collector who got rid of a lot of the more distinctively scottish features #RIP #if i start thinking about how little i know about welsh traditions #i'll get sad again about not knowing any of my dad's family except his brother #a lot of his family was from rhosymedre and llangollen and places like that #i've never even been there although i've been to other parts of wales #i hope to change that this year though. not for Heritage™ reasons but that's a bonus side effect i guess #i need to take a ferry across to ireland so i gotta go to north wales anyway so might as well make a party of it #answered #anonymous #english folk traditions

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thurgon · 5 months

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Mari Lwyd