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The Grimerica Show - Not Your Grandparents Paranormal Conspiracy Podcast

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A loose cannon podcast featuring casual conversations with whomever we deem interesting, often on...

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Sam and Lielet are new friends living in Ethiopia. There is something mysterious on the outskirts of...

Morgan Sheppard (1010 KP) created a post

Sep 21, 2025

Gŵyl Canol Hydref—the second harvest. 🍇🌾

Garlands of vine + wheat.
Bread baked with acorns + honey.
Candles burning orange, red, yellow, indigo, and brown.
A feast for endurance, a charm for the winter to come.

Read The Garland of Autumn, a short story for this season → https://morgan-sheppard-author.kit.com/posts/gwyl-canol-hydref-the-vine-and-the-oak

#GŵylCanolHydref #HarvestFestival #WelshMyth #AutumnTraditions #Folklore

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May 29, 2026 - 1:19 PM

Happy Folklore Friday for the 29th! 🌿

Today I want to talk about the Cyhyraeth, one of the quieter, stranger figures in Welsh folklore and one that has always fascinated me.

At first glance, a Cyhyraeth is like the Irish Banshee. It’s a wailing female spirit that acts as a death omen, heralding an impending loss. But unlike the Banshee, the Cyhyraeth is never seen, only ever heard, particularly along the Welsh coast and near water.

The cry was understood as a portent of death, arriving before illness, before disaster, before shipwrecks claimed their dead. Sometimes she was said to wail three times, each cry growing fainter, and those who heard her knew that something irrevocable was already in motion.

What makes the Cyhyraeth so compelling is how much she does with so little. There's no figure to describe, no face to imagine, only a sound moving through the darkness and the particular dread of knowing that a warning has already come too late to change anything. 🌊

She belongs to a rich tradition of Welsh omens and heralds, sitting alongside the Gwrach y Rhibyn and the corpse candle as one of the ways Welsh folklore gave shape to the unspeakable. Some things, it seems, need a voice even when there's no one left to hear them.

#FolkloreFriday #TalesFromWales #WelshFolklore #FolkloreFantasy #MythAndMoonlight