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Foel Goch

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Welsh Folklore

Black cats, often considered banes and the companions of dark entities elsewhere, are welcomed in Wales as felicitous granters of bright fortune and good health.

"Cath ddu, mi glywais dd'wedyd,/ A fedr swyno hefyd,/ A chadw'r teulu lle mae'n byw/O afael pob rhyw glefyd."

"A black cat, I've heard it said,/ Can charm all ill away,/ And keep the house wherein she dwells/ From fever's deadly sway."

- Welsh folk-lore: a collection of the folk-tales and legends of North Wales by Elias Owen, 1896

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Sgydau Sychryd

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Deffroad Cymru (The Awakening of Wales), Christopher Williams, 1911

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Top, Side and Below Sgwd Ddwli Uchaf // Upper Gushing Falls

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It’s pretty here

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its just fucking offensive tbh

annibyniaeth cymru

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Church Doors Cove, Pembrokeshire / Wales (by Johannes Hulsch).

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Wild camping under the haze amongst the heather filled mountain side. Llyn Hywel, Eryri National Park

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The popular tourist village of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, North Wales

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It would be amazing

I just think it would be extremely funny if the irelands got back together and wales and scotland passed independence referendums under Charles bc it'd be like waiting until your mom died to come out

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home is where the fog is

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Fantasy authors stop using Irish/Gaeilge, Scots Gaelic/Gàidhlig and Welsh/Cymraeg in your books if you're going to miserably mispronounce them and then say "well this is just MY pronunciation of it!" when you're called out. That's not how that works. Gaeilge, Scots Gaelic and Welsh are three languages that were dangerously teetering on becoming "dead languages" because English occupation intentionally crippled them to suppress the chances of rebellion in three countries they colonized. Native languages that were banned and beaten out of people. I hate this trend, it's tacky. If you're going to use our languages to sound whimsical, learn how to pronounce them correctly, it's the absolute bare minimum. The Celtic languages aren't some little fun trendy devices to bolster and make your books more interesting.

Our languages do sound great in fantasy novels. They're beautiful and frankly magical when spoken fluently, and it's incredibly sad that although they are recovering, they still have an incredibly long way to go.

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a day late but, MARI LWYD!!!

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Mari Lwyd

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