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Mallt-y-Nos

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Mallt-y-Nos (Matilda of the Night), also known as the Night Mallt,^[1] is a crone in Welsh mythology who rides with Arawn and the hounds (Cŵn Annwn) of the Wild Hunt, chasing sorrowful, lost souls to Annwn. The Mallt-y-Nos drives the hounds onward with shrieks and wails, which some say are evil and malicious in nature.^[2]

Others say that she was once a beautiful but impious Norman noblewoman who loved hunting so much that she said, "If there is no hunting in heaven, I would rather not go!" She is said to have regretted making this wish, and now cries out

in misery rather than joy as she hunts forever in the night sky.^[2]

In popular culture

Mallt-y-Nos features in Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court as one of the many spirit guides that assist the dead with their transition.

Mallt-y-Nos is the code name of a character in the SciFi trilogy "Lightless" by C.A. Higgins. While the character's code name is mentioned many times in the first two books ("Lightless" and "Supernova"), it is not explained until the end of the third book, titled "Radiate". All are in print.

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1. ^{{cite book |title=The history of early English literature: being the history of English poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King Ælfred |last=Brooke |first=Stopford Augustus |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1892 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |location= |isbn= |page=84 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vDEMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA84&dq=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22#v=onepage&q=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22&f=false |accessdate=October 10, 2010}}
2. ^¹{{cite book |title=Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales |last=Trevelyan |first=Marie |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1973 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |location= |isbn= |page=49 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zmYHrsC6cYIC&pg=PA49&dq=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22#v=onepage&q=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22&f=false |accessdate=October 10, 2010}}

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{{cite book |title=The doom of Colyn Dolphyn: a poem, with notes illustrative of various traditions of Glamorganshire |last=Williams |first=Taliesin |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1837 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme and co. |location= |isbn= |page= |pages=71–73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAGUuloCkOUC&pg=PA72&dq=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22#v=onepage&q=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22&f=false |accessdate=October 10, 2010}}

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