{"id":35714,"date":"2018-05-08T03:10:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/08\/aurwrychyn-welsh-folklore-creature\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:10:11","slug":"aurwrychyn-welsh-folklore-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/08\/aurwrychyn-welsh-folklore-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"AURWRYCHYN &#8211; WELSH FOLKLORE CREATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>This creature appears in Welsh folklore and I have never seen any reference to it in any book on cryptozoology.\u00a0 Its name means Gold-Bristle.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>It resemble an ox, but was covered with golden bristles.\u00a0 There seems to have been only a single one of these beasts and it was, as its name indicates, covered with golden bristles.\u00a0 Indeed, so bright were these bristles that you could not look upon it.\u00a0 It was so wild that there was no question of drawing near to it.\u00a0 The lake Llyn y Gadair was its haunt, referred to as Gold-Bristle&#8217;s seat.\u00a0 A hunter was said to have pursued the beast and his dogs slew the unfortunate animal near Bala Denlyn.\u00a0 The cry he uttered re-echoed through the mountains.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>The Celticist Sir John Rhys thought the creature entirely mythical, the Celtic god Lugos in animal form.<\/i><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i>Source: <\/i>J. Rhys <i>Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom <\/i>(London, 1892).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfz-usa.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/aurwrychyn-welsh-folklore-creature.html\" target=\"_blank\">source: CFZ-USA<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This creature appears in Welsh folklore and I have never seen any reference to it in any book on cryptozoology.\u00a0 Its name means Gold-Bristle.It resemble an ox, but was covered with golden bristles.\u00a0 There seems to have been only a single one of these beasts and it was, as its name indicates, covered with golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,30,29,27,15],"class_list":["post-35714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update","tag-bryanbowden","tag-cryptozoology","tag-itgu-insidethegoblinuniverse","tag-ronaldmurphy","tag-paranormal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EDHE-9i2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32585,"url":"https:\/\/insidethegoblinuniverse.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/the-kelpie-creature-of-folklore\/","url_meta":{"origin":35714,"position":0},"title":"THE KELPIE &#8211; 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