The Y Cyhraeth
by Branwen Drew
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Title
The Y Cyhraeth
Artist
Branwen Drew
Medium
Drawing - Scratchboard And Ink
Description
The Y Cyhraeth or The cyhyraeth (Welsh pronunciation: [kəˈhəreθ]), also spelled cyoeraeth or cyheuraeth (probably from the noun cyhyr "muscle, tendon; flesh" + the termination -aeth, meaning "skeleton, a thing of mere flesh and bone", "spectre", "death-portent", "wraith"),[= is a ghostly spirit in Welsh mythology, a disembodied moaning voice that sounds before a person's death.
Legends associate the cyhyraeth with the area around the River Tywi in eastern Dyfed, as well as the coast of Glamorganshire. The noise is said to be "doleful and disagreeable", like the groans and sighs of someone deathly ill, and to sound three times (growing weaker and fainter each time) as a threefold warning before the person expires. Along the Glamorganshire coast, the cyhyraeth is said to be heard before a shipwreck, accompanied by a corpse-light.
Like the Irish banshee and the Scottish Cailleach, to which the cyhyraeth and the Gwrach y Rhibyn are closely related, the cyhyraeth also sounds for Welsh natives dying far from home.
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