#MythologyMonday: `#Scottish heroine Fionnghal nam Fiadh was jilted by her lover, who took his ambitious mother’s advice to marry a richer woman. Fionnghal went mad, running into the mountains naked and screaming. She lived there among the deer, growing hair so that she looked like a member of the herd, who accepted her as one of their own.
Eventually all her kinsmen and other pursuers gave up the chase, save her once-beloved, who kept tracking her despite her madness. At last one day he found her, naked and asleep, in his own campsite. He covered her with his cloak and waited. When she awoke she was sane and thankful but told him that she was dying and, indeed, did so soon thereafter. Her lover brought her body down from the mountains and, as soon as he had delivered it to her kin, died himself. From their adjoining graves, two great weeping willows grew up and entwined themselves.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #folklore