Mari Lwyd

Mari Lwyd

There is a Welsh Christmas tradition named Mari Lwyd, in which a skeletal horse mounted on a pole visits your door singing poetry. You are then compelled to engage in a battle of rhymes and must best it or else you’ll have to let it inside and give it food.

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