Caradog ap Bran appears in medieval Welsh narrative as a son of Bran (Bendigeidfran), a member of the Llŷr family. In the Second Branch of the Mabinogi (Branwen ferch Llŷr) a council leaves seven men, with Caradog given seniority, to defend Britain while Bran leads an expedition to Ireland. His identity is also preserved in triadic lists and genealogies that incorporate him into the legendary dynastic memory of Britain.
No specific physical description of Caradog is preserved in the supplied sources; he is attested only by his patronymic identity (son of Bran) and his social rank as a senior chieftain among the seven left to defend Britain.
Caradog's role in the tradition is chiefly mortal, social, and martial: he is a senior war-leader entrusted with the defence of Britain. The narrative records no supernatural powers or magical skills for him. His notable behaviour in the tale is loyal leadership and despair: after Caswallawn murders his men (using an invisibility cloak in the narrative), Caradog 'breaks his heart in despair' and dies of grief.
Weaknesses
- conditionmortal grief and despair
Wards
None recorded.
Adar Rhiannon
Adar Rhiannon ('birds of Rhiannon') are a set of three magical birds in medieval Welsh narrative (the Mabinogi) whose song can 'wake the dead and lull the living to sleep.' They appear as otherworldly song‑beings tied to the figure Rhiannon and function within tales as providers of enchanted music that sustains and consoles characters.
Afaon fab Taliesin
Afaon fab Taliesin is a medieval Welsh warrior-counsellor, named as a son of the bard Taliesin and recorded among Arthur’s retinue in Welsh tradition. He appears in the Welsh Triads and in the tale Breuddwyd Rhonabwy (The Dream of Rhonabwy) as a notable martial figure and proverb-speaker rather than as a supernatural being.
Beli Mawr
Beli Mawr is a legendary ancestral king and eponymous progenitor in medieval Welsh genealogies and literature, presented as the father of several named mythic figures and as an origin-figure for royal houses. Modern scholarship sometimes hypothesizes a connection with the continental Celtic deity Belenus/Belenos, but medieval sources principally treat Beli as an ancestral/kingly figure rather than explicitly as a deity.
Branwen ferch Llŷr
Branwen ferch Llŷr is a legendary princely woman from medieval Welsh narrative tradition, the central female figure of the second branch of the Mabinogi. Her marriage to Matholwch of Ireland, mistreatment in the Irish court, and death precipitate a catastrophic war between Britain and Ireland and set in motion miraculous episodes (a life-restoring cauldron; the speaking severed head of her brother Bendigeidfran).
Dywel fab Erbin
Dywel fab Erbin is a minor heroic figure of medieval Welsh literary tradition: a son of Erbin, brother to Geraint and Ermid, and named among King Arthur's knights at Celliwig. He is attested in early Welsh poetry (the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Stanzas of the Graves) and in the Arthurian tale Culhwch ac Olwen, where his death in battle and the location of his grave at Caewaw/Caeo are recorded.
Eudaf Hen
Eudaf Hen (Eudaf "the Old") is a legendary dynastic figure in medieval Welsh and Breton literature, remembered as a king of the Britons and an ancestral founder used in royal and saintly genealogies. He appears in narrative sources (notably The Dream of Macsen Wledig and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia) and in various pedigrees where his identity organizes claims to rulership, descent, and regional foundation (including links to Brittany).
Capys
Capys is a personal name in Greco‑Roman legendary history borne by several legendary human figures connected to the Trojan and early Roman genealogies. Bearers of the name appear as a king of Dardania, a Trojan who warned against bringing the wooden horse into Troy, and a mythic king of Alba Longa in Roman annalistic tradition; a later Victorian poet (Macaulay) renders a Capys figure as a prophetic elder.
Caradoc
Caradoc is a semi-legendary heroic/ancestral figure from Welsh and Arthurian tradition, remembered in medieval genealogies and romances as a ruler of Gwent and as a Knight of the Round Table. He is treated in the sources as a human hero whose life is affected by wondrous events (enchantment, serpent-affliction, knightly tests) rather than as an independently supernatural being.
Caradocus (Karadawc)
Caradocus (Middle Welsh: Karadawc) is a legendary Cornish ruler attested in medieval pseudo‑histories, principally Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, where he functions as a noble counselor, envoy, and peacemaker in the narrative linking Britain and Magnus Maximus. He is presented as a historical/legendary human figure rather than a supernatural being.
Carassa de Barcelona
No reliable information about a folkloric or supernatural entity called 'Carassa de Barcelona' is present in the supplied sources. References in the materials relate to Barcelona's street naming, Christmas markets, and neighborhood culture, but none document an entity by this name.
Carbuncle (heraldry)
A heraldic charge consisting of eight radii or spokes: four forming a common cross and four forming a saltire. The term 'carbuncle' also names a deep-red cabochon gemstone (usually almandine garnet) and, separately, a folkloric legendary creature in South American tradition associated with gemstones; however, in the sources provided the heraldic sense is a visual emblem rather than a supernatural being.
Cardys
Cardys is not attested in the provided sources as a coherent supernatural being; the name appears primarily as a surname, a set of toponyms (Cardy, Missouri; Cardys Rock), and as a short early‑modern printed title element ('The boke of the new cardys...'). A single Wikidata line lists 'Cardys' as a 'mythical Cretan, father of Clymenus,' but no supporting mythographic material is provided in the available sources.
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