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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Feb 26, 2024  
Time for the Weekly Dispatch - see the library of the week, a recipe for giant Welsh Oggies, plus this week's New Release from Rowan Mackay!

Have you subscribed yet? 💙


https://morgan-sheppard-author.ck.page/posts/weekly-dispatch-w-e-25th-february


#Newsletter
#NewRelease
#WeeklyDispatch
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Jul 4, 2022  
This #Epic #Fantasy series is full of #myth and #magic, #action and #adventure, and even a touch of #romance, with a strong Welsh theme.

Step inside the World of #WraiddElfennol today and see which element calls to you. Available in #KU

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJV1CYB
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Sep 13, 2023  
This #Epic #Fantasy series is full of #myth and #magic, #action and #adventure, and even a touch of #romance, with a strong Welsh theme.

Step inside the World of #WraiddElfennol today and see which element calls to you. Available in #KU

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJV1CYB
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Nov 8, 2022  
This #Epic #Fantasy series is full of #myth and #magic, #action and #adventure, and even a touch of #romance, with a strong Welsh theme.

Step inside the World of #WraiddElfennol today and see which element calls to you. Available in #KU

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJV1CYB
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Feb 23, 2022  
This #Epic #Fantasy series is full of #myth and #magic, #action and #adventure, and even a touch of #romance, with a strong Welsh theme.

Step inside the World of #WraiddElfennol today and see which element calls to you. Available in #KU

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJV1CYB
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

May 29, 2026  
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
      
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) May 29, 2026

And for those of you wondering... it's pronounced Kuh-HUR-aith 💙
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Morgan Sheppard (1028 KP) created a post

Oct 31, 2019  
Set in the world of #Wraidd_Elfennol, this #Fantasy series is full of myth and magic, action and adventure, and even a touch of romance, with a strong Welsh theme.

Step inside the World of Wraidd Elfennol today and see which Element calls to you.

https://lnkd.in/dqMYnfj