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Rhiannon is the resourceful heroine of the story Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed. A Goddess of the Underworld, she chose a mortal condition in order to marry Pwyll and overturned her father's desire for her to marry Gwawl, a disruptive Underworld being whose malice caused him to steal Rhiannon's newborn son. Since the midwives attendant on her feared Pwyll's anger, they smeared dog's blood on Rhiannon's face as she lay sleeping and cast dog-bones about the bed to set the blame of the child's disappearance on her. For seven years, Rhiannon was sentenced to stand at the mounting block, to stop all strangers and tell them this tale against herself and then offer her own back to carry them into the hall. After a few years her son was restored to her and she was exonerated from blame. After Pwyll's death she married Manawyddan ap Llyr and was again subject to otherworldly enchantment. Her three blackbirds grant forgetfulness, delight and refreshment.
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