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Mallt-y-Nos · salience 0.95

“It leads the Wild Hunt, galloping through the night sky, its presence ominous and foreboding.”

Cwn Annwn · salience 0.8

“Older material associates them with Arawn, king of Annwn in the Mabinogion, who hunts with a pack of exactly this description; later folklore sometimes substitutes other huntsmen, including figures drawn from the general Wild Hunt motif found across northern Europe. Their defining behaviour is auditory and inverted: where an ordinary pack sounds louder as it approaches, the cry of the Cwn Annwn grows fainter the nearer it comes, until it is barely audible directly overhead — a detail collectors record consistently and treat as the surest way to identify them.”