Sujet

'Mari Lwyd' or Grey Mare celebrations at Chepstow, Wales, UK, a Welsh midwinter tradition to celebrate the New Year.

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'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.

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Photographe : Haydn Denman

Date

17 janv. 2015

Crédit

Photo12/Alamy/Haydn Denman

Notre référence

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Utilisation

uniquement en France

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

63,3Mo (1,5Mo) / 48,8cm x 32,5cm / 5760 x 3840 (300dpi)

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