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Welsh:
“Flower-Form”
Also called:
Blodeuwedd
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Blodeuedd

Welsh folklore
Also known as: Blodeuwedd
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History

Blodeuedd, in the Welsh collection of stories called the Mabinogion, a beautiful girl fashioned from flowers as a wife for Lleu Llaw Gyffes (see Lugus). Lleu’s mother had put a curse on him that he would have no wife, and Blodeuedd was created to subvert the curse; she was unfaithful, however, and conspired with a lover to kill Lleu. The attempt failed and she was changed into an owl as a punishment.