MARI LWYD 

Welsh-American and just learning about Mari Lwyd. What a beautiful tradition. "It's like going to war and then peace breaks out." I don't know why, but it's made me cry. We all need some of that passion and beauty in our lives these days.

Awww, they're so pretttyyy! The music rocks! Wish we (modern) Americans had something like this. So GOTH!

Imagine this singing at your door at the middle of the night

Mari Lwyd arrives at the door and a rap battle begins between her handlers and the householder. A rap battle in Welsh is called a pwnco, and has been for centuries!

This is visually stunning. Incredible tradition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I love Mari Lwyd, have done for years. I believe it goes back way beyond the Celts, the Beaker people.

Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda. 🎄☃🌟🎄

Dw i’n hoffi Mari lwyd!

This is so... Beautiful and spooky at the same time

Fascinating! What a great film, thank you.

If the Mari lwyd wins in a singing competition they get to raid your fridge for all the alchahol. True fact

2:40 - Mr. and Mrs. Mari Lwyd. :D

I love this way too much- a sad American.

Beautiful video. Hiraeth I am feeling.

Absolutely amazing, I love these sorts of traditions. American Yuletide traditions are rather tame in comparison to the Old Countries on Mother Europa. I keep finding amazing ones I know did make it over here though I'm not sure if the ones who kept it alive have been able to maintain. Hopefully they can have a revival similar to Krampus, I would especially love Carolling to integrate more of the Mumming elements from Europa.

It is a Welsh tradition, yet where is that representation in this film? Beautifully done, but lacks the REAL soul of the tradition I'm afraid.

Truly fascinating!

Note to self: don’t take any hallucinogenic shit when in wales. No not even if you really want to

I'm from Caerphily and haven't seen this before, but i love it! It feels to me like a marriage of death and giving. I don't know, we were never taught it in school, and after watching this video for the first time (a few weeks ago) I quized my mum (fyi I'm 36) and she told me that she's seen it in a few villages but never where we are. I love to see this partly because it feels very halloweeny to me (without intention of causing offence), its more that it's a celebration of death, the amazing things that come of life that are magnified by death and all that. Apologies for the rambling, I'm getting more and more into my heritage as the days o by, and this is the next big thing for my brain to understand! I have to say though, I'm so proud / content with Welsh culture purely because it's so entrenched in nature (and community). Everyone i know, trained or not, has a love of the world around them, and i think that's our base - i can't type how proud i am of that!

this is so beautiful

Cymru am byth 💕

I absolutely adore the artistry and personality in all these Mari Lwyds! I want to make my own hobby horse like that, but I'm afraid since I'm not Welsh it might be inappropriate of me to do so.

As a Welshman myself I find this very neet

Pure nightmare fuel

_BRILLIANT!_

It's an amazing tradition. It's actually so spooky, I'm surprised it hasn't been featured more in films.

SUCH AN UNDERATED MATERIAL

Cymru am byth

If the Mari lwyd wins in a dining competition they get to raid your fridge for all the alchahol. True fact

im surprised this isn't a fnf mod yet it's basically a rap battling skeleton horse

thank you

Love the cinematography, would you please be able to tell me the music that is played at 1:03

There’s very few horses in my region so I had to make do with a cow skull I found in an abandoned pasture

Wow

i didn't cry you cried

Umm this is my kind of holiday season...

Why do people keep thinking they do rap battles- I’m confused pls someone tell me

Where do you get the skulls? I would love to do this. we have a visiting group who come to our chapel. obviously with restrictions this year they are unable to..

i love this Tradition :)❤️ ps: how do you get so many horse skulls?

All good stuff but it is the Grey Mary not the grey mare. Mare in Welsh is caseg, Mari means Mary. All goes back to the horse that was in the stable when Mary gave birth to JC. Now it's out looking for a home.

I appreciate the themes of this and find it important to document as well as continue old traditions. I will say from a filmmaking perspective, as your audience, I would rather listen to the traditional and folk music you undoubtedly recorded making this than the overly dramatic cinematic music you used. It's just so overdramatic and melancholic compared to the music played at these events.

Getting midsommar vibes

I came here wanting to see a rap battle after watching Sam O'Nella Academy

,,what it could mean,, Maybe they just wanted to stick a horse skull on top of a stick and walk around at night to forget about the constant dread of their painful existing.

I know that is a Welsh person pretending to be Meri Lwyd but as you might know children are afraid of that being in there house at night 😅

Yes but why

Did I see an English flag? Get rid of it 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Is we dumb any one?

This video is far too dramatic for what is just silly creepy fun.

Superb tradition and heritage ruined by flags and nationalism imo.

appropriation of our culture, like Arthur etc etc etc