'Mari Lwyd' or Grey Mare celebrations at Chepstow Wales UK a Welsh midwinter tradition to celebrate the New Year
'Mari Lwyd' celebrations at Chepstow, Morris dancers and public in Chepstow, on the boarder of Wales and England UK celebrate one of the strangest and oldest of Welsh customs as they take 'The Mari Lwyd' to several pubs and taverns in the small market town. The ''Mari Lwyd''' (''Grey Mare'' or "Gray Mary" in English) is a Welsh midwinter tradition, possibly to celebrate New Year, although it formerly took place over a period stretching from Christmas to late January. It is a form of visiting wassail, a luck-bringing ritual in which the participants accompany a person disguised as a horse from house to house or in this case pub to pub, January 16 2013,
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Location: Chepstow on the Wales England boarder UK
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