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Tag Archives: Lady Gregory
Mor (Twin of Hazel or the Sea)
(Black Rock, County Kerry, Ireland. Photograph by K. Glavin) “In the midst of the Irish Sea, almost equidistant from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and concentrating in itself the psychical and magnetic influences from these three Celtic lands, and from Celto-Saxon … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Carmichael, Ancestors, Beech, Celtic Tree Oracle, Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects, Finn Mac Cool, Golden Bough, James Frazer, Joseph Campbell, Lady Charlotte Guest, Lady Gregory, Lady Wilde, Magical Alphabets, Manannan Mac Lir, Manannan's shirt, Mor, Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Ogham, Ogham Tract, Robert Graves, Samhain, Sea, Twin of Hazel, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, White Goddess, Witch Hazel
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Iphin (Honey or Gooseberry)
(Photograph by Frank Vincentz) “I was to go out fishing tonight,” said the younger as he came in, “but I promised you to come, and you’re a civil man, so I wouldn’t take five pounds to break my word to … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 Pigs, Amanita Muscaria, Ancient Legends, and Superstitions of Ireland, Asail, Asal, Bones of Asal's Pigs, Celtic Tree Oracle, Children of Tuireann, Christopher Bird, crane bag, Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects, Easal, Edward Clodd, Gods and Fighting Men, Gooseberry, Guelder Rose, Honey, Iphin, J.M. Synge, James MacKillop, Lady Gregory, Lady Wilde, Magic Pigs, Magical Alphabets, Manannan, Mystic Charms, Ogham Tract, Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Peter Tompkins, Raul France, Robert Graves, Scotch Fir, Scots Pine, Secret Life of Plants, Sympathetic magic, The Aran Islands, Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philospohy in Folktale, White Goddess
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Oir (Gold or Spindle)
“Lochlann was the mythical undersea home of the later Fomorian invaders of Ireland, against whom the Tuatha de Danaan fought a bloody war. The god Tethra ruled it. It seems that legends of the war between these two nations were … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Tree Oracle, Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects, Dublin, Famorian, Gods and Fighting Men, Gold, Ireland, James MacKillop, Lady Gregory, Lochlainn, Lochlin, Magical Alphabets, Manannan, Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Oir, Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Robert Graves, Spindle, The White Goddess, Tuatha De Danaan
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Straif (Blackthorn)
“Better the bramble than the black-thorn, better the black-thorn than the devil. He who would go in the bramble for me, I would go in the thorn for him” – Proverb (Alexander Carmichael: Carmina Gadelica Vol. II. 1900) The Roots: … Continue reading
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Tagged Aine, Ancient Legends Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, Ban-Sidhe, Banshee, Black Magic, Blackberry, Blackthorn, Carmina Gadelica, Celtic Tree Oracle, Devil, Evan Wentz, Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, Fairy Queen, Gods of Fighting Men, Hawthorn, James MacKillop, Lady Gregory, Lady Wilde, Leanan-Sidhe, Lunantishee, Magical Alphabets, Meaning of Trees, Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Otherworld, Oxford Dictionary or Celtic Mythology, Prunus, Robert Graves, Sidhe, Straif, Thorn, Tree Wisdom: the Definitive Guidebook, Tuatha De Danaan, White Goddess, Witch Trials
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