#Celtic #BookologyThursday: โ€žAt midnight Ethne came, dressed ready for the journey, and standing over the Fians lifted her hands above their heads, and chanted in a curiously even tone these words:
By the light of suns afar
And the guiding, distant star;
By the mystic new-born moon
And the lilt of magic rune,
You are freed from the ill spell.

Take your swords and let us go,
From this place of death and woe;
Leave this shadowy land behind
And the words that hold and bind:
Now my bidding breaks the spell.

The Fians rose, and with great gladness found that their strength had returned to them.โ€œ
Source: The Chase of GLEANN-NA-SMOL in Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel

#Celtic #BookologyThursday: After the death of his son, #CรบChulainn was in such a fury that #Cathbad the #druid โ€žcast a spell on him to make him think the waves of the ocean were attacking warriors, and he strove with them from the waxing of the moon to the waxing of the moon until he collapsed from exhaustion.โ€œ
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/cuchulainn-meets-his-son
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Cuchulainn Meets His Son