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Tag Archives: Samhain
Ireland’s Samhain
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland was published in 1887. In it, Lady Wilde lets us look into the minds of the Irish peasantry of the time. She did this by interviewing the elders of a dying faith … Continue reading
Fear Dorcha: Shadow Creature from the Land of the Celts
The Fear Dorcha is a mysterious, malignant, fairy being, found in Celtic myth and legend. Despite modern associations with the word, the term “fairy” was once used to refer to spirits such as the Fear Dorcha. Unlike modern fairies, however, … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts
Tagged Black Druid, Black Sorcerer, Dark Man, Evil Spirit, Fairy, Fairy Abduction, Far Darrig, Far Doroche, Far Gorta, Far Liath, Fear Doirche, Fear Dorche, Fear Doroche, Fionn, Ghost, Samhain
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The Bat in Celtic Folklore
In the land of the Celts – from lonely moors to haunted castles –the bat has long been associated with witches, ghosts, and other tragic beings of the night… In the 1949 Encyclopedia of Superstitions by Edwin and Mona Radford … Continue reading
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
Posted in Tree Ogham
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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Ur (Heather)
“When we reflect upon the many unique characteristics of the Heather- its stern beauty of delicate purple bells nestling to a green mantled burly growth of brushwood; its distinctive vitality and strength of endurance; the wild rugged solitude of its … Continue reading
Posted in Tree Ogham
Tagged Alexander Wallace, Bee, Beltane, Cailleach, Celtic Tree Oracle, Cluricaune, Fairies, Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland, Gort, Heath, Heather, Heather in Lore Lyric and Lay, Highlands, Macdonald Clan, Magical Alphabets, Ngetal, Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Ogham Tract, Paul Kendall, Robert Graves, Rowan, Samhain, Scotland, Thomas Croker, Tom Cowan, Ur, White Goddess, Yearning for the Wind
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