Tradition Hivernale Galloise: Fascinantes Photographies D'poque De Mari Lwyd Du Dbut Du Xxe !

In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home around Christmas, and you must beat it in poetry or allow it inside.






A most unusual group of masked mummers or guisers performing outside Winster Hall, Derbyshire, England, circa 1870, with three hobby horses (one of the mast type, made with a painted horse skull; the two others are of unusual construction). One performer, in a long dress, is sweeping with a besom broom; two others (extreme left and right) are playing bladder and string.




The Mari Lwyd or, in Welsh, Y Fari Lwyd, is a New Year custom once prevalent in the valleys of South Wales. Translated, the name means the Grey (or Holy) Mary although this is likely a more recent rendering of the Grey Mare, as the tradition surrounding the Mari Lwyd involves the parading of a horses skull.


The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horses skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth. It represents a regional variation of a hooded animal tradition that appears in various forms throughout Great Britain.


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