The ancient myths of the Mabinogi often feel inaccessible and alien, but they hold rich, ancient lore and were probably teaching stories, aspects of which date back to Celtic prehistory and beyond, and yet they continue to hold profound story-medicine for us today.

In this fourth and final Tuesday evening salon in this series, we'll get to know Lleu Llaw Gyffes, his magical wife of flowers, Blodeuwedd and Gwydion, the magician whose actions drive the narrative of the Second Branch. This tale is full of animal transformations, not just Lleu and Blodeuwedd, but of Gwydion and his brother Gilfaethwy's transformations into deer, boar and wolves. What is this all about? Why these animals, and what might they have represented to the audiences of these tales down the many centuries when the oral tradition carried them, before a skilled Cyfarwydd captured them in oak-gall ink on vellum? What medicine might the…