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#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `Musicians and poets of genius were sometimes stolen away by the Aes Sidhe (People of the Hill) for their talents, forced to entertain the #fairy throng at one of their endless balls, and then discarded when the fickle Good Folk had had their fill.
Generally, one discarded by the fairies pined for the beautiful land left behind and died not long after returning to mortal life.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#WyrdWednesday: „The mythology surrounding the building of Dowth tells us that the men working to construct a mound so their king Bresail Bó-Dibad could reach the heavens abandoned their work halfway through when the sun fell into darkness, or an eclipse took place.“ #Celtic
Source: Under an Irish Moon (emeraldisle.ie)

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: `A fairy would give her human husband her total devotion but their union would be irrevocably broken if the husband did not completely observe the conditions he had agreed were acceptable to him. Tales tell of the marital bond between fairy and mortal often being severed suddenly; either due to the over-sensitive nature of the fairy but more often due to the ill manners or falsehoods of the husband.` #Celtic
Source: bonjourfrombrittany.wordpress.

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: As a boy Elidyr used a hole in the riverbank as a portal to #Fairyland. He encountered two little men who took him to the #Otherworld, where he lived in ease and joy. All was beautiful there—bountiful land, beautiful people, endlessly sunny weather.
But when the prospective #Welsh hero tryed to steal a little gold ball he was caught by the fairies, who were angry and disappointed at his actions. They did not punish him but allowed him to go back to the surface world, free and safe. But thereafter, no matter how he sought, Elidyr could never find that riverbank entrance to fairyland.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FairyTaleTuesday: „The ancient ancestors of the #Irish believed that the way to the #Otherworld, also known as Tir na Nog, or #Manannán’s land, lay west across the sea beyond the ninth wave, or through the crystal waters of lakes, rivers and wells.
These entrances to the Sidhe world were guarded, accessible only to the bravest, or some might say, the most foolhardy. The monsters which lived in these lakes were known as #péista, and they were said to be as big as mountains and very fierce. Fionn mac Cumhaill is said to have fought and killed a veritable horde of the beasts in various lake locations around #Ireland.“ #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack
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#FairyTaleTuesday: Knockfierna `is traditionally known as the 'Hill of Truth'. It is said to personify Donn Fírinne, the #Celtic lord of death and fertility. In folklore he is seen as a giant or the Fairy King. He is said to live at the bottom of a deep hole in the hillside called 'Poll na Bruinne' and anyone trying to investigate this entrance to the #Otherworld will not come away unscathed and may even be drawn in, never to be seen again.“
Source: themodernantiquarian.com/site/

#FairyTaleTuesday: Diarmuid had fought with a magician two days in a row. „Each time, the stranger had escaped him in the evening by jumping into a well. But on the third evening „when the magician would have dived into the well as before, Diarmuid seized him round the neck, and they both fell in together.
Down they dropped through the clear water, and when the bottom was reached Diarmuid was so astonished at the sight before his eyes that he loosened his grip on the magician, who escaped as quickly as he could. The well had widened out into a broad lake, with little waves breaking on golden sands, and rippling over Diarmuid's feet. He stood there, wondering what country of the Sidhe he had reached, for before him stretched a wide green plain, with beautiful flowers growing over it, and shining white palaces standing in its midst.“ He was in Tir-fa-tonn, the Land under the Waves. #Celtic
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel

#FairyTaleTuesday: Donn was the Lord of the death. „Donn’s dwelling was known as Tech Duinn (translating to “house of Donn”), said to be the place where the souls of the death gather and commonly identified with Bull Rock, a small island off the coast of the Beara Peninsula in the far southwest of Ireland. This would align with the traditional Irish belief that the souls of the death departed westwards over the sea with the setting sun, and the unique shape of Bull Rock resembling a dolmen or a passage tomb might have contributed to people thinking of it as a gateway to the #Otherworld, the destination of the final journey of the deceased before they were reincarnated.“ #Celtic
Author: @MaddyWaves

#MythologyMonday: How did Queen Medb and king Ailill compare the value of their possessions? Most probably they calculated in cumal (oldir. for slave). 3 dairy cows were worth 1 cumal. Medb only lacked one bull to be on par with her husband. This was the trigger for the Tain Bó Cuailnge (the Cattle Raid of Cooley). #Celtic

#MythologyMonday: A cumal (oldir. for slave or bondmaid) was the unit in which the ancient Irish measured their possessions. 3 dairy cows were worth 1 cumal. „Cattle tribute was often paid to the High King. According to mythology, when Bres assumed the throne following Nuada of the Tuatha de Denann’s injury, he demanded a very high tribute from them in favour of his Formori heritage. The Danann were famous for their beautiful milk-white cattle, which were greatly coveted by other tribes. However, in order to avoid paying such heavy tribute, the Dagda tricked Bres by driving the herds between the Bealtaine fires so that the smoke stained their coats black.“ #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

#FolkloreThursday: In #Scotland, people did not speak the name of a newborn child until it had been baptized and thus, presumably, protected from #fairy kidnapping. The tradition of giving nicknames or pet names to people similarly arises from the belief that, if fairy people knew the real name of a loved person, that person would be in danger of being stolen away.
In the #Hebrides, a long-lasting tradition called for children to be sprinkled with drops of water immediately upon birth, at which time a temporary name was granted the newborn.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
todon.eu/@NeuKelte/11169926383

Todon.eu1. Neu-Kelte 💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@todon.eu)Attaché : 1 image #FolkloreThursday: In #Scotland, people did not speak the name of a newborn child until it had been baptized and thus, presumably, protected from #fairy kidnapping. The tradition of giving nicknames or pet names to people similarly arises from the belief that, if fairy people knew the real name of a loved person, that person would be in danger of being stolen away. In the #Hebrides, a long-lasting tradition called for children to be sprinkled with drops of water immediately upon birth, at which time a temporary name was granted the newborn. Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore` / RT @akeydesign@twitter.com My first piece for #folktaleweek2020 with the story of the kidnapping fairies and changelings.

#FolkloreThursday: In #Scotland, people did not speak the name of a newborn child until it had been baptized and thus, presumably, protected from #fairy kidnapping. The tradition of giving nicknames or pet names to people similarly arises from the belief that, if fairy people knew the real name of a loved person, that person would be in danger of being stolen away.
In the #Hebrides, a long-lasting tradition called for children to be sprinkled with drops of water immediately upon birth, at which time a temporary name was granted the newborn.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
todon.eu/@NeuKelte/11169926383

Todon.eu1. Neu-Kelte 💙💛🌻 (@NeuKelte@todon.eu)Attaché : 1 image #FolkloreThursday: In #Scotland, people did not speak the name of a newborn child until it had been baptized and thus, presumably, protected from #fairy kidnapping. The tradition of giving nicknames or pet names to people similarly arises from the belief that, if fairy people knew the real name of a loved person, that person would be in danger of being stolen away. In the #Hebrides, a long-lasting tradition called for children to be sprinkled with drops of water immediately upon birth, at which time a temporary name was granted the newborn. Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore` / RT @akeydesign@twitter.com My first piece for #folktaleweek2020 with the story of the kidnapping fairies and changelings.

#FolkloreSunday: `On January 6, in Ireland known as Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas, some women would gather and enter the men’s domain, the pub, probably sit in the snug, drink stout and eat sandwiches. It was unusual for respectable women to drink stout, but as the day went on, they became as free as the birds in the tree and the singing would start.` #Celtic
Source: kennys.ie/old-galway/1872-noll

#FolkloreSunday: „The twelfth and final day of Christmas, January 6, was known in Ireland as Nollaig na mBan or Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas. As a reward for their hard work over the Christmas season, it was a day off from all house work for women and traditional roles were supposed to be reversed in the home: men did the women’s work in the house while women rested and gathered together informally.“ #Celtic
Source: rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0104/11

RTÉ · The roots and traditions of Nollaig na mBanPar Marion McGarry