Medieval rap battles with decorated horse skulls are back for Christmas

Dec 05, 2025

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By Frederic Evans - Published in E. C. Cawte’s Ritual Animal Disguise: A Historical and Geographical Study of Animal Disguise in the British Isles (1978), p. 97., Public Domain, Link

The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh tradition in which a group of people carry a horse skull mounted on a pole — draped in a white sheet with the operator hidden underneath — to your d…

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