Blodeuwedd and Gronw Pebr became lovers while Lleu was absent, and their passion drove them to conspire in his murder — a betrayal that ended with Gronw's death and Blodeuwedd's transformation into an owl.
Blodeuwedd was given to Lleu Llaw Gyffes as his wife, but she fell in love with Gronw Pebr and together they plotted to slay Lleu by tricking him into revealing the impossible conditions of his death.
Gwydion and Math fab Mathonwy conjured Blodeuwedd from the flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to be a wife for Lleu Llaw Gyffes, circumventing Arianrhod's curse that her son should never have a human wife.
After Blodeuwedd conspired with Gronw Pebr to murder Lleu, Gwydion hunted her down and transformed her into an owl — condemned to be hated by all other birds, never to show her face in daylight again.
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