Mari Lwyd
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The Mari Lwyd is a wassailing folk custom 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 hi
The Mari Lwyd
A Mari Lwyd, during a celebration in 2006
At the Chepstow Mari Lwyd, 2014
A Mari Lwyd at the 2013 St. David's Day festivities in Los Angeles
Wassail
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The tradition of wassailing falls into two distinct categories: the house-visiting wassail and the orchard-visiting wassail. The house-visiting wassail, which traditionally occurs on the twelfth day o
Mari Lwyd
…The Mari Lwyd (; Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd, ) is a wassailing folk custom 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…
Wassailers in Shirehampton, Bristol
A pot of simmering wassail, infused with citrus fruit slices and cinnamon sticks
An apple sapling, hung with toast, placed in a handcart and pushed around the streets during the Chepstow Mari Lwyd, 2014
A Christmas Eve 1842 issue of the Illustrated London News, depicting Father Christmas in a wassail bowl