The Mari Lwyd is a horse-like creature found in South Wales. The Mari Lwyd is described as an undead horse a skull head and it wears a white cloak. The Mari Lwyd rises from the dead every New Year’s Eve to remind people that it exists and that it should be feared. Every year a festival called the Mari Lywd Party was help where a replica of the Mari Lwyd was made and was puppeteered by seven men and they would go door to door and sing songs asking to be let in and the inhabitants of the home had to make excuses not to let the Mari Lwyd in and once they ran out of excuses they had to invite it in and give them ale and food.
