 The legend of the cyhyraeth is sometimes conflated with tales of the Gwrach-y-Rhibyn () or Hag of the Mist, a monstrous Welsh spirit in the shape of a hideously ugly woman – a Welsh saying, to describe a woman without good looks, goes, "Y mae mor salw â Gwrach y Rhibyn" ("she is as ugly as the Gwrach y Rhibyn") – with a harpy-like appearance