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#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Beinn na Caillich on the #IsleOfSkye is one of the #Cailleach haunts, as are other mountains prominent in the landscape, and from which fierce storms of sleet and rain descend, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the lands below.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beinn_na_Caillich_(Red_Hills)

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The #Cailleach is also known as the Hag of Storms. She lays claim to the creatures of the wild and cold places, the red deer and the wolf, the leaping salmon and the springing goat, warding them and watching over them. She it was who decided which would live and which would perish in the storms of winter.`
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/an-cailleach

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: The #Cailleach aka Hag of Storms „lived (and rumour has it, lives still!) in the Beara just in the south of Ireland, and a wandering friar came to her house, for he had heard tell of a woman of great age, so old that even she herself had lost count of the years. Her house was small enough and he didn't think much of it, but she made himself and his scribe welcome.
“If it's no harm,” he asked, “may I know your age, as there are those who say you're older than the road I walked to get here, and the fields around it, and the hills in which they lie!”
“No harm to me at all,” she answered, “for I've little to say about it, knowing even less! But I do kill an ox every year and stew up the bones for my soup, then throw a leg bone up into that loft above your head. If you send your young lad up he can make a tally.”
Well the friar's lad went up a the narrow ladder to the loft and began throwing bones down as there was no room to do a count up there in the dimness, and for each one the friar made a mark in a thick book he bore with him. At length the book was full of marks and the friar was weary with totting, so he shouted up to the lad to ask was he almost done.
The lad stuck his head out and said he hadn't even one corner cleared yet, so the friar looked askance at the old woman and bid him come down out of it, for he was up to his knees in bones. He spoke to the lady and learned of some of the wonders she could recall, and they were strange tales indeed that hardly made much sense. But for all that he didn't write them down as his book was already full.“ #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/an-cailleach

A new 2025 print for #artAdventCalendar with a winter solstice story. In the Gaelic mythology of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, the divine old woman, or hag, created the landscape itself and the storms and weather of winter. Known by many names, she is the Cailleach (literally the old woman or hag) or Cailleach Bhéarra in Ireland, she is Cailleach Bheurra, or The Hag of Beara or Beira, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #folklore #folktale #Cailleach #winter #Beira #WinterSolstice #mastoArt

#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: „It is told that Beira (also known as the #Cailleach) was an old hag described to have long, frosty white hair, dull dark blue skin and only one eye, is the Goddess of Winter. Beira, along with her eight sister hags, ushers #Scotland into winter by riding out from Ben Nevis, her home, to hammer frost into the ground. Beira carried a staff or rod that is said to have frozen the land wherever she tapped, and a mighty hammer she used that created and shaped the land of Scotland, raising mountains and crafting valleys and rivers.“
Source: Angus and Bride - Folklore Scotland

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `At #Samhain, the #Cailleach brings the cloak of winter, sending all to sleep. While the land around us seems to die off in winter, there is so much activity going on beneath our feet preparing for the great renewal of spring.`
Sources: Ali Isaac | Substack
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `On the west coast of Scotland, the #Cailleach ushers in winter by washing her great plaid (Gaelic: féileadh mòr) in the Gulf of Corryvreckan (Gaelic: Coire Bhreacain - 'whirlpool/cauldron of the plaid'). This process is said to take three days, during which the roar of the coming tempest is heard as far away as twenty miles (32 km) inland. When she is finished, her plaid is pure white and snow covers the land.`
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailleach

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In Ireland and Scotland the legends of the #Cailleach have endured. She is interpreted not just as the creator of landscape but also as controller of winter.`
„I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.“ Andrew Wyeth, visual artist and painter
Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `It’s been suggested the Cailleach and St Bridgit (not Bridghe) are two sides of the same thing. The #Cailleach is the winter representation of the Magna Mater, whereas St #Bridgit, is the now christianised version of the same thing but of Summer. One perhaps a dark half and one perhaps a light half.`
Source: https://cailleachs-herbarium.com/2015/08/the-cailleach-a-tale-of-balance-between-darkness-and-light-part-two/