#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind killed one hundred on each ford from Ath Scennmend at Ollbine to the Boyne of Bray, and he fulfilled all the deeds that he had vowed to Emer, and he came safely out of it, and they reached Emain Macha towards the darkness of that night.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_4

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `After distracting Aife, #Cuchulaind approached her, seized her at her two breasts, took her on his back like a shoulder-load, and carried her with him to his own host. Then he threw her from him to the ground, and placed his bare sword over her. And Aife said: "Life for life, oh Cuchulaind!"
"My three wishes to me!" said he. "Thou shalt have them, as they come with thy breath," said she.
"These are my three wishes," said he, "thou to give hostage to Scathach, without ever afterwards opposing her, thou to be with me this night before thy dun, and to bear me a son."
“I promise it all thus,” said she.
It was done in that wise.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_3

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind consented to go to Scathach to learn soldierly feats, and Forgall bound himself that were he to go in that time, he would give to Cuchulaind whatever he wished. Forgall went home, and the warriors arose in the morning and set themselves to do what they had vowed.
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_2

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind went across Bray to visit Emer. He spoke with the maiden before he went in his ship. She told him that it was Forgall who had desired him in Emain to go to learn soldierly feats, in order that Emer and he might not meet. And she told him to be on his guard wherever he went, lest he should destroy him.
Each of them promised the other to keep their chastity until they met again, unless either of them should get death thereby. They bade farewell to each other, and he turned towards Alba.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_2

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Conganchnes [i.e. Horn-skin] mac Dedad devastated Ulster greatly. Spears or swords hurt him not, but sprang from him as from horn.
"Free us from this pest, O Celtchar!" said Conchobar.
"Surely I will," said Celtchar. And on a certain day he went to converse with the Horny-skin so that he beguiled him, promising to him his daughter, even Niam daughter of Celtchar, as well as a dinner for a hundred every afternoon to be supplied to him.
Then the woman beguiled him, saying to him`: "Tell me," she said, "how you may be killed."
“Red-hot iron spits have to be thrust into my soles and through my shins.”
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Aided-cheltchair/Aided-cheltchair-index.html

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The Sons of the Gael marched in good order as far as Slieve Mis. And there they were met by a queen of the Tuatha de Danaan, and a train of beautiful women attending on her, and her Druids and wise men following her. Amergin, one of the sons of Miled, spoke to her then, and asked her name, and she said it was Banba, wife of Mac Cuill, Son of the Hazel.
They went on then till they came to Slieve Eibhline, and there another queen of the Tuatha de Danaan met them, and her women and her Druids after her, and they asked her name, and she said it was Fodhla, wife of Mac Cecht, Son of the Plough.
They went on then till they came to the hill of Uisnech, and there they saw another woman coming towards them. And there was wonder on them while they were looking at her, for in the one moment she would be a wide-eyed most beautiful queen, and in another she would be a sharp-beaked, grey-white crow. She came on to where Eremon, one of the sons of Miled, was, and sat down before him, and he asked her who was she, and she said: "I am Eriu, wife of Mac Greine, Son of the Sun."
And the names of those three queens were often given to Ireland in the after time.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Conchubar went out one morning early to walk on the strand, and there he saw a sea-woman asleep on the shore.
And he put bonds on her in her sleep, the way she would not make her escape. But when she awoke and saw what had happened, she asked him to set her free. "And I am Tiabhal," she said, "one of the queens of the sea. And bid Culain," she said, "that is making your shield for you, to put my likeness on it and my name about it. And whenever you will go into a battle with that shield the strength of your enemies will lessen, and your own strength and the strength of your people will increase."
So Conchubar let her go, and bade the smith do as she had told him. And when he went back to Ireland he got the victory wherever he brought that shield.`
Source: Gods And Fighting Men, by Augusta Gregory

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Macha Mhongruadh, daughter of Aodh Ruadh son of Badharn, … held the sovereignty of Ireland seven years, till Reachtaidh Righdhearg slew her. And it was in her time that Eamhain Mhacha was built. Now the reason why it is called Eamhain Mhacha is this: three kings out of Ulster held the sovereignty of Ireland, namely, Aodh Ruadh son of Badharn, from whom is named Eas Ruaidh, and Diothorba son of Deaman of Uisneach in Meath, and Ciombaoth son of Fionntan from Fionnabhair; and it was with this Ciombaoth that Ughaine Mor son of Eochaidh Buadhach was brought up. And each of these kings reigned seven years in succession, until each had held the sovereignty of Ireland thrice. And the first of them to die was Aodh Ruadh; and he left no issue but one daughter named Macha. Macha demanded the sovereignty in her turn after her father's death; and Diothorba and his children said that they would not cede sovereignty to a woman; and a battle was fought between themselves and Macha; and Macha triumphed over them in that battle, and held the sovereignty of Ireland seven years; and Diothorba died and left five sons, namely, Baoth, Bedach, Bras, Uallach, and Borbchas. These demanded the sovereignty of Ireland for themselves, as it was held by their ancestors before them. Macha said she would only give them battle for the sovereignty. A battle was fought between them, and Macha defeated them. The children of Diothorba fled for safety to dark and intricate woods; and Macha took Ciombaoth son of Fionntan as her husband, and made him leader of her warriors, and went herself in pursuit of the sons of Diothorba in the guise of a leper, having rubbed her body with the dough of rye, and found them in an intricate forest in Burenn, cooking a wild boar. The sons of Diothorba asked news of her, and gave her a portion of the meat. She told them all the news she had.
And then one of the men said that the leper had a beautiful eye, and that he desired to lie with her. Thereupon he and Macha retired into the recesses of the wood, and Macha bound this man and left him there, and returned to the rest. And they questioned her, ‘Where didst thou leave the man who went with thee?’ said they. ‘I know not,’ said she; ‘but I think he feels ashamed to come into your presence after embracing a leper.’ ‘It is not a shame,’ said they, ‘since we will do the same thing.’ Thus she went into the wood with each of them in turn; and she bound them all, and so took them bound together before the men of Ulster at Eamhain; and she asked the Ulster nobles what she should do with them. They all said with one accord that they should be put to death. ‘That is not just,’ said Macha, ‘for that would be contrary to law; but let them be made slaves of and let the task be imposed on them of building a fort for me which shall be the capital of the province for ever.’ Thereupon Macha undid the gold bodkin that was in the mantle on her breast, and with it measured the site of the fort which the sons of Diothorba were obliged to build. Now, the fort is called Eamhain eo being a word for ‘a bodkin’, while muin means ‘the neck’, and hence the fort is called Eamhain, that is, eo mhuin.`
Source: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100054/text038.html

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: As her husband had asked her to, Queen Etain `came to her brother-in-law every day to tend him, and to make ready his food, and to pour water over his hands, and all she could do she did for him, for it was a grief to her, he to wither away and to be lost for her sake. And at last one day she said to him: "Rise up, Ailell, son of a king, man of high deeds, and I will do your healing."
Then he put his arms about her, and she kissed him, and she said: "Come at the morning of tomorrow at the break of day to the house outside the dun, and I will give you all your desire."
That night Ailell lay without sleep until the morning was at hand. And at the very time he should have risen to go to her, it was at that time his sleep settled down upon him, and he slept on till the full light of day.
But Etain went to the house outside the dun, and she was not long there when she saw a man coming towards her having the appearance of Ailell, sick and tired and worn. But when he came near and she looked closely at him, she saw it was not Ailell that was in it. Then he went away, and after she had waited a while, she herself went back into the dun.
And it was then Ailell awoke, and when he knew the morning had passed by, he would sooner have had death than life, and he fretted greatly.
And Etain came in then, and he told her what had happened him. And she said: "Come to-morrow to the same place."
But the same thing happened the next day. And when it happened on the third day, and the same man came to meet Etain, she said to him: "It is not you at all I come to meet here, and why is it that you come to meet me? And as to him I came to meet," she said, "indeed it is not for gain or through lightness I bade him come to me, but to heal him of the sickness he is lying under for my sake."
Then the man said: "It would be more fitting for you to come to meet me than any other one. For in the time long ago," he said, "I was your first husband, and your first man."
"What is it you are saying," she said, "and who are you yourself?" "It is easy to tell that," he said; "I am Midhir of Bri Leith." "And what parted us if I was your wife?" said Etain. "It was through Fuamach's sharp jealousy and through the spells of Bresal Etarlaim, the Druid, we were parted. And will you come away with me now?" he said. But Etain said: "It is not for a man whose kindred is unknown I will give up the High King of Ireland." And Midhir said: "Surely it was I myself put that
great desire for you on Ailell, and it was I hindered him from going to meet you, the way you might keep your good name."
And when she went back to Ailell's house, she found his sickness was gone from him, and his desire. And she told him all that had happened,` and he said: "It has turned out well for us both: I am well of my sickness and your good name is not lessened." "We give thanks to our gods for that," said Etain, "for we are well pleased to have it so."
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: "Do you know who is the young man?" said Balor of the Evil Eye then.
"I know well," said Ceithlenn, his wife; "he is the son of your daughter and mine. And it was foretold," she said, "that from the time he would come into Ireland, we would never have power there again forever."
`Then the chief men of the Fomor went into a council, Eab, son of Neid, and Seanchab, grandson of Neid, and Sital Salmhor, and Liath, son of Lobais, and the nine poets of the Fomor that had learning and the gift of foreknowledge, and Lobais the Druid, and Balor himself and his twelve white-mouthed sons, and Ceithlenn of the Crooked Teeth, his queen.`
Source: Gods And Fighting Men, by Augusta Gregory
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `In the veneration of the #NewMoon for protection we can see the admixture of old pagan beliefs with Christianity. A seventeenth century German writer wrote: “The wild Irish have this custom, that when the moon is new they squat upon their knees and pray to the moon that it may leave them vigorous and healthy.`
Source: Under an Irish Moon (emeraldisle.ie)

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Sliabh Mis is celebrated by Keating and other more ancient Irish writers as the scene of the first battle between the Milesians and Tuatha De Dananns. An anonymous author states that this mountain received it’s name from “a distracted woman of great strength and activity called Mis na Dairi, who proved a great enemy and hindrance to passengers in this mountain during her reign of it.” The Four Masters style it the Mountain of the Lady Mis, the daughter of Muiredh the son of Cuireadh but do not mention the period at which she flourished.`
Source: https://www.logainm.ie/en/101383

#FolkloreSunday: `Caesar claimed that the continental Celts believed in reincarnation, while other writers of his era expressed their belief that the impressive bravery of #Celtic warriors stemmed from their belief that they would live to fight again.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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#FolkloreSunday: `Roman writers describe #Celtic warriors as painted with the blue dye-plant woad. The sight of blue-painted warriors, wild with drink, charging across a battlefield is described as terrifying by more than one ancient writer.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`