Plygain is a traditional Welsh Christmas service, known for early-morning, unaccompanied carol singing. Celebrated from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night — today is the last day it’s traditionally held 🎶🏴 Gwasanaeth Nadolig traddodiadol Cymreig yw Plygain, sy’n enwog am ganu carolau di-gyfeiliant yn gynnar yn y bore. Fe’i dathlir o Noswyl Nadolig hyd Noswyl Ystwyll — heddiw yw’r diwrnod olaf y caiff ei gynnal yn draddodiadol 🎶🏴 | The Church in Wales / Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru
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Some old traditions of the festive season from Wales: 1. The Plygain: start Christmas morning at a candlelit carol service before the sunrises. Traditionally sung unaccompanied and in close harmony. 2. Hunting the wren: A wren (dead) is carried from house to house by a troop of men, dancing & singing on Boxing Day (the feast of St Steven). They have a drink at every house. 3. Holming: in its earliest form, quite brutal. On Boxing Day morning the last maiden in the house to rise is beaten with ho
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🕯️ Plygain – A Unique Welsh Christmas Tradition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plygain is a beautiful and ancient Welsh Christmas custom of singing carols in the early hours of Christmas morning, usually between 3am and dawn. The name comes from the Latin pulli cantus, meaning “cockcrow”, as the singing traditionally began before the rooster’s call. This tradition dates back at least to the 17th century, and possibly earlier, and is especially associated with rural communities in north and mid Wales. People wo
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