mastodon 4.7.3Lead author of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto (https://zotum.net/profile/ncm), fantasy novelist (unpublished), patchwork family person, environmentalist & conservationist, lightworker, psychic, student of the representatives of Dr. and Master Sha
Lives and works in Béal Átha Caointe
#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: Hares were sent by the dwellers in the hill to warn mortals if they trespassed too closely into forbidden places, or sought to damage or destroy the old mounds. So if you happen to be in the wild places of Ireland when the moon waxes full above and see a hare looking at you steadily from the tall grass, look out!
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-irish-hare
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: In the episode Nuckelavee, Scotland's Scariest Demonthe makers ofStories of Scotland journey to the cold waters of the North Sea. Annie relates, howas the middle of autumn approached, and the autumnal equinox drew near, the Sea Mither (In an evil hour her powerful and black-hearted rival breaks his bonds; a terrific battle ensues, called the Gore vellye (harvest destructive work).
The Sea Mither is overcome, and has to take her flight from the ocean, leaving it for a time under the dominion of the wintry-faced Teran.`
Listen to https://www.storiesofscotland.com/podcast/)
#FindsFriday: Macabre finds and a warrior figure in a Bavarian Celtic settlement baffle experts Researchers have unearthed more than 40.000 new artefacts in Manching, near Ingolstadt. In the process, they have learnt new things about diet and craftsmanship and have come across what may be the remains of a ritual: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000283551/morbide-funde-und-kriegerfigur-in-bayerischer-keltenstadt-geben-fachleuten-raetsel-auf
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: James Macgrigor encountered a Kelpie disguised as a stallion. Recognizing it, he stroke its nose with his claymore, severing its magical bridle bit. The Kelpie pleaded for its return, revealing its transformational powers and ability to reveal hidden beings: “If you look through the holes in the bit, you will see all manners of fairies and witches and devils.” Macgrigor lifted the bit to his eyes and peered through, and sure enough, the world he saw was bright with colour and full of beings invisible to the human eye. He was so enamoured by the contraption that he wanted to study it in more detail. He was also not deaf to the Kelpie’s claim that without the bit, he would die, and Macgrigor saw an opportunity to free the people of the surrounding area from the Kelpie’s reign of terror. Macgrigor, captivated by the bit’s power, decided to study it further, leaving the Kelpie in a vulnerable state. Despite the Kelpie’s pleas and threats, Macgrigor cleverly kept the bit, learning about the #Otherworld.
„Rarely is a Kelpie the victim of a trick, but after that day, no one went missing on the banks of Loch Ness ever again, all thanks to the cunning of James Macgrigor.“
Source: https://folklorescotland.com/the-kelpie-of-loch-ness/
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Two-part neck ring with stamp ends, brooch with base disc, knotted arm ring with stamp ends, bronze finger ring from a women’s grave, recovered in 1911 at Praunheim-‘Ebel’, City of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
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#FindsFriday #Celtic: Small combs with a bronze horse-shaped handle from a cremation grave found at Fechenheim – ‘Schwedenschanze’, City of Frankfurt am Main
Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `The #tarroo-ushtey, the #Manx Water-Bull, is an "amphibious creature" with every semblance of a natural bull, but a cow mating with it calves only a misshapen "lump of flesh and skin without bones" and often dies giving birth. Waldron also wrote that a neighbor detected a stray bull in his herd and, suspecting it to be a Water-Bull, rounded up a group of men with pitchforks to give it chase. The beast, however, dove into a river and eluded them, bobbing its head up in mockery.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Bronze belt chain with an animal-head clasp from a woman’s grave found at Berstadt, ‘Im Felde’, Büdingen district
Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
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#FindsFriday #Celtic: Bronze comb, second half of the 5th century BCE, find from a mountain pass, Aigle, Routes des Ormonts, Canton of Vaud`
Source: Special exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `In the folklore of the Isle of Man the #Fenodyree is a hairy supernatural creature, often carrying out chores to help humans, like the brownies. Besides herding animals, reaping and threshing overnight may be added to the list of chores he performs for the farmer, as well as herding sheep on a snowy night. The fenodyree may also repair fishnets or the boat, according to lore among fishermen.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenodyree
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Grace McGloighlin lived in the townland of Creevelea at the north-west corner of Glenade Lough.
One day in 1722 she went to the river to wash some clothes and, failing to return that evening, her husband Terence went looking by the lough shore.
Tradition has it that he found her bloody remains with the Dobhar-Chú asleep on her breast.
James Roonian's version, recounted to Patrick Tohall in the 1940s, details how Terence “returning to the house for his dagger he stole silently on the Dobhar-Chú and drove the knife into its breast. Before it died, however, it whistled to call its fellow.”
Terence was forced to flee with the animal in pursuit. He was joined by a second man and “realising that they could not shake it off they stopped near some old walls and drew their horses across an open door. The Dobhar-Chú rushed under the horses' legs to attack the men, but as it emerged from beneath them one of the men stabbed and killed it.”
Source: https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/features/the-tale-of-leitrims-own-loch-ness-monster-the-dobhar-chu-8301142
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: While hunting, the Boar of Ben Bulben mortally wounded #Diarmaid. #Fionn would have had the ability to save his former captain and friend, but hesitated until Diarmaid was dead.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: Ciabhan went on in the curragh, and great white shouting waves rose up about him, every one of them the size of a mountain; and the beautiful speckled salmon that are used to stop in the sand and the shingle rose up to the sides of the curragh, till great dread came on Ciabhan, and he said: "By my word, if it was on land I was I could make a better fight for myself" And he was in this danger till he saw a rider coming towards him on a dark grey horse having a golden bridle, and he would be under the sea for the length of nine waves, and he would rise with the tenth wave, and no wet on him at all. And he said: "What reward would you give to whoever would bring you out of this great danger?" "Is there anything in my hand worth offering you?" said Ciabhan. "There is," said the rider, "that you would give your service to whoever would give you his help." Ciabhan agreed to that, and he put his hand into the rider's hand. With that the rider drew him on to the horse, and the curragh came on beside them till they reached to the shore of Tir Tairngaire, the Land of Promise. They got off the horse there, and came to Loch Luchra, the Lake of the Dwarfs, and to Manannan's city, and a feast was after being made ready there, and comely serving-boys were going round with smooth horns, and playing on sweet-sounding harps till the whole house was filled with the music.
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: In Mallow there is a deep cave beneath Castlecor, where they say many treasures lie glittering, guarded by a white cat that was once a queen called Aeibhill, until she was enchanted by her sister. Once a year the cat can again become human for a week at midsummer, appearing as a beautiful maiden of twenty. She is regarded as the guardian spirit of the Dalcassian race, and Queen of the Fairies of North Munster. The King of Ireland, Brian Ború, is reported as saying on the evening of the Battle Clontarf that Aeibhill came to him the previous night and told him he should fall that day.
Source: Midsummer Bonfire Night | Folk and Fairy Tales from the Emerald Isle
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: When Becfhola attempted an assignation to the hero Crimthann, the queen of Tara instead met Flann ua Fedach and spent an enchanted night with him on an island in Lough Erne. When she returned to Tara, it was as if no time had passed, for she was living in the #Otherworld in #fairy time with Flann, who soon came to take her away. Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: The Carle was in the midst of eating porridge mixed with blackberries when Cael appeared, charging furiously along the hill-road, his sword bare in his hand and his eyes blazingred, like the eyes of an angry dog. "Surely he will do some one a damage if he comes nearer," said the Carle, and seizing a mass of the mixed corn and berries in his enormous hands quickly kneaded it up into a hard ball, and threw it with such precision of aim that it struck Cael on the head, hitting him with so great a force that his head was twisted sideways on his body, and he could not straighten it again.
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116913291151214645
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `Moore says there was a sighting of the #cabyll-ushtey, a #Manx Water-Horse, in 1859 at Ballure Glen, and after being spotted people from nearby Ramsey flocked to see, but no one caught sight of it. The glen beneath the Glen Meay Waterfall was haunted by the ghost of a man who unwittingly rode on the horseback of the glashtin or cabbyl-ushtey, and was drowned at sea.
One tale recounts how a cabbyl-ushtey emerged from the Awin Dhoo (Black River) and devoured a farmer's cow, then later it took his teenaged daughter. Nevertheless, recent literature makes the cabyll-ushtey as being more benign than the Scottish Gaelic each-uisge.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: During his footrace against Cael (here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116556976390936605) the Carle took a break when he came to a road edged with high blackberry bushes, and here and there clumps of tall pink foxgloves growing in the hollows. The wild bees were busy gathering honey from the blooms, and for some time the Carle, smiling gently to himself, stood watching them as they crawled in and out of the hooded flowers, and observed how their little legs were heavy with balls of the golden honeydust. Then he picked a huge heap of blackberries, warm with the sun, and sat down on a grassy bank to eat them.
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: In his poem “I and Pangur Ban“ the author is talking about his pet cat, Pangur Bán, bán meaning ‘white’ in Irish. Pangur means ‘fuller’, a tradesman involved in the production of woollen cloth, in which it is cleansed of oils, dirt and impurities, making it thicker. Perhaps this was a reference to the cat’s thick, white, clean fur. The author is comparing Pangur’s skill at hunting mice with his own industriousness as a wordsmith. It is quite clear from the poem that Pangur is his pet, and that there is fondness and companionship between them.
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/BrentMerrill/status/1754138062756422079
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: Loughanleagh is a land steeped in ancient folklore, where mythical creatures and legendary figures from Ireland’s past continue to stir the imagination. Local folklore has many stories loaded with ancient mythology. One such example is the ‘One-eyed Hare of Loughanleagh’. It is said that a gamekeeper lived on the mountain and had been told that a fine hare had been seen beside the “Lake of the Cure”, so he concealed himself nearby to kill it. One day, just as the sun was sinking beneath the horizon a hare came abounding to him. But what he saw astounded him and he could not move. The hare was no ordinary hare – it had a great big red eye in the centre of its forehead and dived right down into the lake to the ‘#Otherworld’ where it belonged.
Source: https://www.loughanleagh.com/folklore/
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: In no wise could the sons of Turenn direct their magic boat to the Isle of Finchory, and a quarter of a year they traversed the seaways and never could get tidings of that island. At last Brian fashioned for himself by magic art a water-dress, with a helmet of crystal, and into the depths of the sea he plunged.
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook of „The High Deeds of Finn, And Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland“ by T. W. Rolleston
#FindsFriday #Celtic: The throwing stick or ‘boomerang’ from Urville-Nacqueville (https://charabanctour.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/le-boomerang-de-normandie/) was found in situ in a vertical position against the wall of the ditch. Preserved from degradation by soil moisture since it was buried during the Second Iron Age (La Tène D1b: 120–80 BC), the stick was unearthed from a ditch into which it appears to have been deliberately placed as part of a ritual act. Beyond taphonomic evidence (relating to the various processes that have taken place since it was buried), this impression is reinforced by the deposition nearby, and under similar conditions, of a chimera combining, in an anatomically incorrect manner, the pelvis of an equid with a dog’s skull, and associated with several pieces of whale rib. A throwing stick – of which the boomerang is the most famous example – is a universal and timeless weapon. In an article from 1843, Samuel Ferguson was one of the first to recognise the existence of the boomerang in ancient Europe. Drawing on the writings of ancient authors, he proposed restoring its Latin name, ‘cateia’, which was subsequently explained by Salomon Reinach and later adopted by the Gaffiot Latin-French dictionary to mean a ‘throwing weapon of the Gauls which, like the boomerang [sic], returns to its point of origin’. Whilst the general context of the site does not suggest any military activity, this weapon does, however, find its place within a settlement where hunting was facilitated by the presence of various mammals (deer, roe deer, wild boar) and waterbirds (great and little auks, herring gulls, northern gannets, etc.). Through the social values it embodies, the Urville throwing stick also fits perfectly into the material culture of the site. As a hunting weapon intended for a leisure activity reserved for a privileged population free from productive labour, this object, like many others discovered at the site, outlines the contours of a prosperous civilian population whose status remains difficult to assess in detail.
Source: https://www.inrap.fr/breves-gauloises-le-boomerang-d-urville-naccqueville-manche-20828
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: While Fergus mac Róich lived in exile, his comrade in Ailill’s household was Lugaid the blind poet, to wit, a brother of Ailill’s was that Lugaid. Once after deeds of valour Fergus and Medb went swimming [i.e. in Lough Findloch (= Lough Carra)] on Mag Ai. And jealousy seized Ailill. “It is delightful what the hart and the doe are doing in the lake, O Lugaid,” said Ailill. “Why not kill them?” said Lugaid, who had never missed his aim. “Do thou have a cast at them!” said Ailill. “Turn my face towards them,” said Lugaid, “and bring a lance to me.” Fergus was washing himself in the lake, and his breast was towards them. And his chariot is brought to Ailill, so that it was near him; and Lugaid threw the lance, so that it passed out through his back behind. “The cast has gone home!” said Lugaid. “That is true,” said all; “it is the end of Fergus.” “How sad,” said Lugaid, “if I should have killed my foster-brother and comrade innocently”.
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Aided-fergusa/Aided-fergusa-text.html
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: Mongán's wife Findtigernd asks him to recount his journey to the #Otherworld. When they are at the hill of Uisnech, a supernatural hailstorm comes on. When it ends Mongán, his wife, his poet, and seven companions, find a hall ringed by trees. They enter, are greeted by the inhabitants, and Mongán is given to drink, after which he recounts his journey. Although it seems as though they are in the house for only a short time, when they leave a year has passed, and they are now at Rath Mor, Mongán's home near modern Larne, 150 miles away.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong%C3%A1n_mac_F%C3%ADachnai
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: There were two monsters fighting in the sea one time, the Curruid and the Coinchenn their names were, and at the last the Coinchenn made for the strand to escape, but the other followed him and killed him there. Then Bolg, son of Buan, a champion of the eastern part of the world, found the bones of the Coinchenn on the strand, and he made a spear with them. And he gave it to a great fighting man, the son of Jubar, and it went from one to another till it came to the woman-champion, Aoife. And Aoife gave it to Cuchulain, and he brought it to Ireland. And it was with it he killed his own son, and his friend Ferdiad afterwards.
Source: Cuchulain of Muirthemne by Lady Gregory
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Pollnagollum Cave is hidden away behind a waterfall. It was here that the Brotherhood Without Banners hid from the forces of Lannister. #GoT
Source: https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/game-of-thrones-filming-locations-northern-ireland/
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#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: #Fionn and a few Fians had left the Hill of Allen a few days before, thinking how much pleasanter the sea and mountains of Donegal would be than the sun-baked bog-country of the midlands.
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: Tadg and his men set out over the stormy, heavy flood, till at last they saw no land before them or behind them, but only the hillsides of the great sea. And farther on again they heard the singing of a great flock of unknown birds; and pleasant white-bellied salmon were leaping about the curragh on every side, and seals, very big and dark, were coming after them, breaking through the shining wash of the oars; and great whales after them again, so that the young men liked to be looking at them, for they were not used to see the like before.
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: „A buggane was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. A shapeshifter, the buggane is generally described as a malevolent being that can appear as a large black calf or human with ears or hooves of a horse. Its natural form is described as "covered with a mane of coarse, black hair; it had eyes like torches, and glittering sharp tusks". Another tales describes it as a huge man with bull's horns, glowing eyes and large teeth. As magical creatures, bugganes were unable to cross water or stand on hallowed ground.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggane
