"Mari Lwyd, Lwyd Mari,
A sacred thing through the night they carry.
Betrayed are the living, betrayed the dead,
All are confused by a horse's head."
- Vernon Watkins, "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd."
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The Mari Lwyd is a wassailing Welsh Christmas folk custom in which a troupe of men dressed as stock characters (such as Punch and Judy) carry a horse skull on a pole from house to house, at each house singing their desire to enter. Eventually, each household relents, and invites the Mari Lwyd in for food and drink.
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