#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: `#Manannan Mac Lir, a celebrated merchant, was in the Isle of Man. He was the best pilot that was in the west of Europe. He used to know, by studying the heavens, the period which would be the fine weather and the bad weather, and when each of these two times would change. Inde Scoti et Brittones eum deum vocaverunt maris, et inde filium maris esse dixerunt, i.e., Maclir-, 'son of sea.' Et de nomine Manannan the Isle of Man dictus est.`
Source: Myths Connected With The Legendary History of The Isle of Man from Folklore of the Isle of Man by A. W. Moore

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic #EarthDay: `#Manannan, disguised as a clown, went on, and he reached Sligach just at the time O'Conchubar was setting out with the men of Connacht to avenge the Connacht hag's basket on the hag of Munster. And this time he gave himself the name of the Gilla Decair, the Bad Servant. And he joined with the men of Connacht, and they went over the Sionnan into Munster, and there they hunted and drove every creature that could be made travel, cattle and horses and flocks, into one place, till they got the hornless bull of the Munster hag and her two speckled cows, and O'Conchubar brought them away to give to the Connacht hag in satisfaction for her basket.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116443731545597623

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Seaghan, Son of the Earl, an #Manannan, disguised as a clown, walked out together then on Cnoc Aine, but while they were talking there, the stranger was gone all of a minute, and Seaghan, Son of the Earl, could not see where he went.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116443381184083899

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic #EarthDay: `The clown wished O'Donnell good health, and O'Donnell did the same to him, and asked where did he come from. "It is where I am," he said, "I slept last night at Dun Monaidhe, of the King of Alban; I am a day in Ile, a day in Cionn-tire, a day in Rachlainn, a day in the Watchman's Seat in Slieve Fuad; a pleasant, rambling, wandering man I am, and it is with yourself I am now, O'Donnell," he said. "Let the gate-keeper be brought to me," said O'Donnell. And when the gate-keeper came, he asked was it he let in this man, and the gate-keeper said he did not, and that he never saw him before. "Let him off, O'Donnell," said the clown`, who was no other than #Manannan in disguise, "for it was as easy for me to come in, as it will be to me to go out again." There was wonder on them all then, any man to have come into the house without passing the gate.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114790287929419920

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Aodh Dubh O'Donnell and his retinue tried to prevent the clown from leaving their feast. But at that the stranger took up the harp again, and he made the same sweet music as before. And when they were all listening to him, he called out to the men outside: "Here I am coming, and watch me well now or you will lose me." When the men that were watching the gate heard that, they lifted up their axes to strike at him, but in their haste it was at one another they struck, till they were all lying stretched in blood. Then the clown said to the gate-keeper: "Let you ask twenty cows and a hundred of free land of O'Donnell as a fee for bringing his people back to life. And take this herb," he said, "and rub it in the mouth of each man of them, and he will rise up whole and well again." So the gate-keeper did that, and he got the cows and the land from O'Donnell, and the clown`, who was no other than #Manannan in disguise, brought all the people to life again.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
Here’s the backstory: https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/116086831907061753

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `In the Yellow Book of Lecan (https://www.isos.dias.ie/TCD/TCD_MS_1318.html#108) it is written that there were four men called #Manannán who lived at different times. These were Manandán mac Alloit, a “druid of the Tuath Dé Danann” who was really called Oirbsen, Manandán mac Lir, a mighty sailor, merchant and druid, Manandán mac Cirp, king of the Isle of Man, and Manandán mac Atgnai, who harboured the sons of Uisnech and sailed to Ireland to avenge their deaths.`
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/manannan-mac-lir

#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `#Manannan, son of Lir, took notice of a split and withered tree, and he bade his men to dig it up. And when they began to dig, a mist of poison rose up from the roots, and nine of the men got their death from it, and another nine after them, and the third nine were blinded. And Luchtaine the Carpenter made a shield of the wood of that hazel for Manannan. And after a while Manannan gave it, and a set of chessmen along with it, to Tadg, son of Nuada; and from him it came to his grandson, Finn, son of Muirne and of Cumhal.`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: `#Manannan gave the Sídh the gift of invisibility and shape-changing, and some say that it was he who divided the palaces in the hollow hills among the Tuatha Dé Dannann after their defeat by the Milesians.`
Source: Eithne Massey `Legendary Ireland`