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Welsh Legendary Creatures: C N Annwn, Cyhyraeth, Afanc, Gwyllion, Water Leaper, Coblynau, Ceffyl D R

Welsh Legendary Creatures: C N Annwn, Cyhyraeth, Afanc, Gwyllion, Water Leaper, Coblynau, Ceffyl D R


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Chapters: C n Annwn, Cyhyraeth, Afanc, Gwyllion, Water Leaper, Coblynau, Ceffyl D r. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The cyhyraeth (Welsh pronunciation: ), also spelled as cyheuraeth (probably from the noun cyhyr "muscle, tendon; flesh" + the termination -aeth; meaning "skeleton, a thing of mere flesh and bone"; "spectre," "death-portent," "wraith"), is a ghostly spirit in Welsh mythology, a disembodied moaning voice that sounds before a person's death. Legends associate the cyhyraeth with the area around the river Tywi in eastern Dyfed, as well as the coast of Glamorganshire. The noise is said to be "doleful and disagreeable," like the groans and sighs of someone deathly ill, and to sound three times (growing weaker and fainter each time) as a threefold warning before the person expires. Along the Glamorganshire coast, the cyhyraeth is said to be heard before a shipwreck, accompanied by a corpse-light. Like the Irish banshee and the Scottish Cailleach, to which the cyhyraeth and the Gwrach y Rhibyn (see below) are closely related, the cyhyraeth also sounds for Welsh natives living and dying far from home. The legend of the cyhyraeth is sometimes conflated with tales of the Gwrach y Rhibyn (pronounced ), a monstrous Welsh spirit in the shape of a hideously ugly woman a Welsh saying, to describe a woman without good looks, goes, "Y mae mor salw a Gwrach y Rhibyn" (she is as ugly as the Gwrach y Rhibyn) with a harpy-like appearance: unkempt hair and wizened, withered arms with leathery wings, long black teeth and pale corpse-like features. She approaches the window of the person about to die by night and calls their name, or travels invisibly beside them and utters her cry when they approach a stream or crossroads, and is sometimes depicted as w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=874823


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157210160
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157210163
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: C N Annwn, Cyhyraeth, Afanc, Gwyllion, Water Leaper, Coblynau, Ceffyl D R
  • Width: 229 mm


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