Rhonda Tharp
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Anyone familiar with this story?
I know that Rhiannon and Pwyll married and had Pryderi. Pryderi was kidnapped while his mother slept, and because the hand maids did not want to be blamed for the child's absence, they smeared puppy blood on Rhiannon's face and hands to make it look like she ate her child. (disturbing) When she awoke, Rhiannon was startled to find her son gone, that she was blamed for his death, and her punishment would be to turn into a horse and carry any new guest of their town on her back while she confessed her crime to them. After 7 years, a shephard who had found Pryderi, and raised him, brought him back to Rhiannon's town. After her son was brought back, Rhiannon was able to shapeshift from human, to horse, and in some stories to bird. I've also heard that Pwyll is the God of the Underworld... not for sure though.
That's all I know. Anyone know what the motive was for taking the child? Who took the child? And how did the shephard end up with child? Curious...
I know that Rhiannon and Pwyll married and had Pryderi. Pryderi was kidnapped while his mother slept, and because the hand maids did not want to be blamed for the child's absence, they smeared puppy blood on Rhiannon's face and hands to make it look like she ate her child. (disturbing) When she awoke, Rhiannon was startled to find her son gone, that she was blamed for his death, and her punishment would be to turn into a horse and carry any new guest of their town on her back while she confessed her crime to them. After 7 years, a shephard who had found Pryderi, and raised him, brought him back to Rhiannon's town. After her son was brought back, Rhiannon was able to shapeshift from human, to horse, and in some stories to bird. I've also heard that Pwyll is the God of the Underworld... not for sure though.
That's all I know. Anyone know what the motive was for taking the child? Who took the child? And how did the shephard end up with child? Curious...