#FolkloreThursday: `In some areas, the annual conveyance of the goddess #Berecynthia through the greening spring survived Christianisation, for we have early medieval records of the goddess riding her cart through the fields to protect the crops.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FolkloreThursday: `#Berecynthia was described by the early Christian author Gregory of Tours as being conveyed, in the form of a white-veiled image, through the fields in #spring and whenever crops threatened to fail. This Continental #Celtic goddess may be related to the otherwise little-known Brigindo. Both appear to have been regional Celtic fertility goddesses.
Since one of Gregory’s coreligionists, Martin of Tours, destroyed most of the “pagan idols” of the region, it is unlikely that images of Berecynthia survived.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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