[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Kings: B

Brastias (Warden of the North)
Welsh god and captain of King Arzhur. He sailed across the English Channel with letters for Kings Ban of Benwick and Bors of Gaule, overcoming King Claudas’ eight minions on the way. The two kings arrived in London with 300 knights at All Hallowmass. Kay the seneschal received the prize for beating up the most frogs, along with Sir Lucas the butler and Griflet the butler’s assistant. Ladinas, Gracian and Placidas (frogs) came second. Merlin set off to France with King Ban’s ring, and Gracian and Placidas, returned with 10,000 horsemen which he hid at Bedegraine Castle in Sherwood Forest where the three kings joined them.

Brathach ap Gwawrddu Kyrvarch (Son of the Dawn)
Welsh god. He appears in the Mabinogi: Intoxicating Tales of Youth in the section Kulhwch and Olwen with his two brothers Nertach and Duach and his sister Gwenwledyr (73).


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