Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic
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Mytholeg Cymreig. Welsh myth, legend, folklore and magic beyond the Mabinogion. Quite a huge dose of Welsh magic to be honest with you. Twitter profile was @mythwelsh
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Unless you're Welsh, in which case under the hood is Iolo Morgannwg.
February 14, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Unless you're Welsh, in which case under the hood is Iolo Morgannwg.
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Today's the day! Cthulhu Cymraeg -- seven novelettes exploring Lovecraftian themes with a Welsh spin -- is out now: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1637894031/
Cthulhu Cymraeg The Night Country: Lovecraftian Tales from Wales: Amazon.co.uk: Jones, Mark Howard, George, J. L., Lewis, Paul, Probert, John Llewellyn, Saunders, C. M., Wilkinson, Charles, Teng, Tais...
Buy Cthulhu Cymraeg The Night Country: Lovecraftian Tales from Wales by Jones, Mark Howard, George, J. L., Lewis, Paul, Probert, John Llewellyn, Saunders, C. M., Wilkinson, Charles, Teng, Tais (ISBN: ...
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February 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Today's the day! Cthulhu Cymraeg -- seven novelettes exploring Lovecraftian themes with a Welsh spin -- is out now: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1637894031/
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I found one of the hundreds of Victorian leather shoes washed up on Ogmore beach!
Well, a heel anyway.
I was nerdily excited, finding this small, never-worn artefact.
It's small, I imagine it was for a child's shoe.
Well, a heel anyway.
I was nerdily excited, finding this small, never-worn artefact.
It's small, I imagine it was for a child's shoe.
February 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I found one of the hundreds of Victorian leather shoes washed up on Ogmore beach!
Well, a heel anyway.
I was nerdily excited, finding this small, never-worn artefact.
It's small, I imagine it was for a child's shoe.
Well, a heel anyway.
I was nerdily excited, finding this small, never-worn artefact.
It's small, I imagine it was for a child's shoe.
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This out next month by @amalelmohtar.com contains not one but two of the best recent reinterpretations of the Blodeuwedd story, Celticists take note
Seasons of Glass and Iron
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February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This out next month by @amalelmohtar.com contains not one but two of the best recent reinterpretations of the Blodeuwedd story, Celticists take note
Reading Buchedd Collen in middle Welsh on the way to Glastonbury. I hadn't realised that his mother was Irish and that her father was Matholwch, lord of Ireland, the same name as the fella in the Second Branch. Also it's pissing down here.
February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Reading Buchedd Collen in middle Welsh on the way to Glastonbury. I hadn't realised that his mother was Irish and that her father was Matholwch, lord of Ireland, the same name as the fella in the Second Branch. Also it's pissing down here.
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🌙 In the Gower woods, when light fades and the birds fall silent… she watches. Pale, still, waiting.
Step carefully. Don’t stray from the path.
Listen to The Lady in the Woods on Time Between Times:
open.spotify.com/episode/1DJx...
Step carefully. Don’t stray from the path.
Listen to The Lady in the Woods on Time Between Times:
open.spotify.com/episode/1DJx...
Time between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton- The Lady in the Woods
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February 13, 2026 at 1:26 PM
🌙 In the Gower woods, when light fades and the birds fall silent… she watches. Pale, still, waiting.
Step carefully. Don’t stray from the path.
Listen to The Lady in the Woods on Time Between Times:
open.spotify.com/episode/1DJx...
Step carefully. Don’t stray from the path.
Listen to The Lady in the Woods on Time Between Times:
open.spotify.com/episode/1DJx...
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#FindsFriday The stunning head of the Capel Garmon firedog, dug up from a peat bog in north Wales in 1852
A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal
More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314
📷 My own, NMW St Fagans
A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal
More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314
📷 My own, NMW St Fagans
February 13, 2026 at 7:38 AM
#FindsFriday The stunning head of the Capel Garmon firedog, dug up from a peat bog in north Wales in 1852
A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal
More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314
📷 My own, NMW St Fagans
A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal
More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314
📷 My own, NMW St Fagans
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(Posted with love for my favorite map)
Britain and Ireland, as illustrated c. 1200 between copies of Gerald of Wales's Topographia and Expugnatio Hibernica
Britain and Ireland, as illustrated c. 1200 between copies of Gerald of Wales's Topographia and Expugnatio Hibernica
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
(Posted with love for my favorite map)
Britain and Ireland, as illustrated c. 1200 between copies of Gerald of Wales's Topographia and Expugnatio Hibernica
Britain and Ireland, as illustrated c. 1200 between copies of Gerald of Wales's Topographia and Expugnatio Hibernica
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It is sobering to think that the vast majority of Welsh poetry composed by women in the medieval and early modern periods was composed and transmitted orally and never committed to writing and thus lost to us ✍️Jerry Hunter
Yr Hen Iaith part 80: Ann Griffiths - the women who wrote some of the most popular Welsh hymns of all time
Jerry Hunter As we’ve stressed several times, one of the more exciting developments in Welsh scholarship over recent decades has been the illumination of poetry by women which was previously confined…
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February 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
It is sobering to think that the vast majority of Welsh poetry composed by women in the medieval and early modern periods was composed and transmitted orally and never committed to writing and thus lost to us ✍️Jerry Hunter
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Wedding in Cwmcarn, a mining village in Wales's Ebbw Valley, 1965, photo by US photographer Bruce Davidson.
February 10, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Wedding in Cwmcarn, a mining village in Wales's Ebbw Valley, 1965, photo by US photographer Bruce Davidson.
Otherworld beer.
February 9, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Otherworld beer.
I'm making the most of a wet Monday night in February in Cardiff.
February 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I'm making the most of a wet Monday night in February in Cardiff.
I'm 60 today.
February 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I'm 60 today.
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#FolkloreSunday
Ellyllon were more solitary members of the Tylwyth Teg of Welsh folklore. Residing in remote woodland groves, they wear gloves made of foxglove bells, and like to feast on poisonous fungi known as "fairy butter"
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas & Wirt Sikes
Ellyllon were more solitary members of the Tylwyth Teg of Welsh folklore. Residing in remote woodland groves, they wear gloves made of foxglove bells, and like to feast on poisonous fungi known as "fairy butter"
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas & Wirt Sikes
February 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
#FolkloreSunday
Ellyllon were more solitary members of the Tylwyth Teg of Welsh folklore. Residing in remote woodland groves, they wear gloves made of foxglove bells, and like to feast on poisonous fungi known as "fairy butter"
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas & Wirt Sikes
Ellyllon were more solitary members of the Tylwyth Teg of Welsh folklore. Residing in remote woodland groves, they wear gloves made of foxglove bells, and like to feast on poisonous fungi known as "fairy butter"
🎨Thomas Henry Thomas & Wirt Sikes
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Here's a photo from my trip to Skomer last July. A beauty! #StandingStoneSunday
February 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Here's a photo from my trip to Skomer last July. A beauty! #StandingStoneSunday
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Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳
Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it.
Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8
Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it.
Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Is it #StandingStoneSunday already?! 😮🥳
Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it.
Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8
Take a spin around the incredible Harold Stone standing stone on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
In 2024, following path erosion, we discovered a rare Bronze Age cobbled platform around it.
Browse on @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab: skfb.ly/pvJw8
Llanforfrith almost works, but Carrach Cen???
February 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Llanforfrith almost works, but Carrach Cen???
LRZ doesn't have a developed kicking game, he just lobs it as far as he can.
February 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
LRZ doesn't have a developed kicking game, he just lobs it as far as he can.
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We are all Dewi Lake right now. Sitting disconsolately on a plastic garden chair.
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 PM
We are all Dewi Lake right now. Sitting disconsolately on a plastic garden chair.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Everyone’s favourite mediaeval Welsh woman 👇
Gwerful Mechain and the Joy of (Medieval) Sex www.medievalists.net/2025/02/gwer... #medievalliterature
Gwerful Mechain and the Joy of (Medieval) Sex - Medievalists.net
For medieval Europeans, talking openly about sex in what we might think of now as explicit detail was a very normal part of life.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Everyone’s favourite mediaeval Welsh woman 👇
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Gair y dydd: DRYTHYLL geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
‘bywiog, afreolus’.
‘Drythyll maen yn llaw eiddil’ meddai dihareb, a gofnodwyd yn Llyfr Coch Hergest, tua 1400.
Afreolus yw carreg (maen) yn llaw rhywun gwantan - neu mae pŵer yn beryglus iawn yn nwylo’r gwan a’r anghyfrifol!
‘bywiog, afreolus’.
‘Drythyll maen yn llaw eiddil’ meddai dihareb, a gofnodwyd yn Llyfr Coch Hergest, tua 1400.
Afreolus yw carreg (maen) yn llaw rhywun gwantan - neu mae pŵer yn beryglus iawn yn nwylo’r gwan a’r anghyfrifol!
February 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Gair y dydd: DRYTHYLL geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
‘bywiog, afreolus’.
‘Drythyll maen yn llaw eiddil’ meddai dihareb, a gofnodwyd yn Llyfr Coch Hergest, tua 1400.
Afreolus yw carreg (maen) yn llaw rhywun gwantan - neu mae pŵer yn beryglus iawn yn nwylo’r gwan a’r anghyfrifol!
‘bywiog, afreolus’.
‘Drythyll maen yn llaw eiddil’ meddai dihareb, a gofnodwyd yn Llyfr Coch Hergest, tua 1400.
Afreolus yw carreg (maen) yn llaw rhywun gwantan - neu mae pŵer yn beryglus iawn yn nwylo’r gwan a’r anghyfrifol!
Just a couple of miles from where I live. I should go there more y.
St Lythan's for #TombTuesday. There is something about this site, it always feels quite eerie. Maybe it's not called the Accursed Field for nothing!
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Just a couple of miles from where I live. I should go there more y.