Mari Lwyd Pins and Buttons

Description: The Mari Lwyd is a Christmas tradition from South Wales. The wassailing puppet is constructed by mounting a horse skull on a pole. It is then carried by an individual hiding under a cloth as the group goes door to door caroling.

Description: For when you want to go a-wassailing, Welsh style.

Description: The Mari Lwyd (Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd) is a wassailing folk custom found in South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth.

Description: A design of Mari Lwyd, the Welsh holiday tradition

Description: Celebrate Christmas the Welsh way this year by sporting this Mari Lwyd inspired design!

Description: A haunting winter folklore design inspired by the Mari Lwyd tradition, with lanterns, greenery, moonlight, and a midnight procession. Perfect for lovers of Welsh customs and unusual seasonal folklore.

Description: Mari Lwyd

Description: Mari Lwyd the ghost of christmas

Description: Don't worry, she's not scary! Celebrate Christmas in a unique way with this magical re-imagining of the Mari Lwyd!

Description: Mari Lwyd Winter Ghost Horse

Description: Mari Lwyd inspired digital collage of horse skull with hollyhock and sage.

Description: A hand carved linocut of a mari lwyd, a traditional folk custom from South Wales.

Description: For the uninitiated (and the poorly dressed): Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, is an Icelandic Christmas monster who prowls the winter night sniffing out anyone who didn’t receive new clothes for Christmas. If your wardrobe update is lacking? He eats you. Not “symbolically.” Not “metaphorically.” He just… eats you. It’s basically the world’s oldest “wear something nice or else” policy. Fashion by fear.

Description: Even though this is a winter tradition for the people in south Wales, why not have this fun singing horse skull year round?

Description: The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh tradition in which folks carry around a hobby horse that is made with a real horse skull. People with Mari Lwyds travel from house to house demanding food and drink through caroling battles.

Description: Horsecskull version of my dead inside design

Description: Pilgrims of the Long Night