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From now on, I will not allow people who don't share this channel to advertise their own channels in the channel chat; they will be banned without question.
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Mari Lwyd is the name given to a wassailing folk custom that involves a giant horse’s skull carried from house to house. It takes place in parts of Wales during the festive season. The horse’s head is decorated with ribbons and the person carrying the head is hidden under a cloak, with a pole to control the horse’s jaw. Sometimes the horse’s eyes are baubles, or lights.
Mari is taken around a village traditionally, often between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night, She is dressed with festive lights and decorations, and is usually accompanied by an ostler, and in some regions like Ystradgynlais in the Swansea Valleys, other folk characters like a jester and a Lady. This brings the tradition closer together with Mummers' Plays.
When the groups get to a house, they sing songs or wassails, or more traditionally indulge in a ritual called pwnco: an exchange of rude rhymes with the person who lives there. If the Mari and her gang get entry, the house is said to have luck for the year.
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Sometimes I forget that Boris Johnson's great-grandfather was the Ottoman empire's Minister of Interior in 1919
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