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The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh midwinter tradition in which a decorated horse skull, mounted on a pole, is carried door to door by a singing party. At each thresho...
Every community has lines that should not be crossed. Not the lines drawn by courts and magistrates and formal legal systems, though those exist too. The oth...
We live in a world that trusts the written word. If something is not recorded, documented, or archived, we tend to assume it is lost. The idea that knowledge...
Let me ask you something. When you picture a fairy, what do you see? Chances are it involves wings. Probably a sparkle or two. Perhaps a tiny glowing figure ...
I want to start with a confession. When most people hear the words "Welsh mythology," they picture one of two things. Either a vague sense of dragons and dru...
Every great mythology has a cast of characters so vivid and so human that they stay with you long after the stories end. Greek mythology has Achilles and Med...
There is a moment in the history of any living tradition when you can see most clearly what it is made of. Not when it is comfortable and established and sur...
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae transformed the "Matter of Britain" into a grand historical epic. Spanning two thousand years—from the mythi...
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) gave medieval Britain a heroic national story, from Brutus of Troy to Arthur's golden age and the ...
The realm of myths and legends breathes life into history, transforming ancient landscapes into settings for epic tales. From the prophecies of Merlin to the...
We live in a world that treats landscape as backdrop. Mountains are scenery. Rivers are geography. Forests are resources or recreation. The natural world, fo...
Water has always been where the miraculous happens. Think about it. Every major religious tradition has its sacred waters. The Jordan River. The Ganges. The ...
Every mythology has its monsters. But the most interesting monsters are the ones that turn out to be human. The Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy, the Red Fairies of...
Everyone thinks they know King Arthur. The sword in the stone. The Round Table. Guinevere and Lancelot. Merlin in his tower. Camelot gleaming on a hill. It i...
Imagine coming downstairs on a winter morning to find the bread already baked, the butter already churned, and the hearth already swept. The fire is lit. The...
Here is a question that has fascinated me ever since I began researching Welsh mythology seriously. Why did Wales escape the witch trials? Not entirely, it i...
