#NationalStorytellingWeek #FolkloreThursday: `When Fintan the Wise of the hundred lives came to Ireland before the flood he thought himself the first but found the #Cailleach living there, and knew her to be far more ancient than himself.
He asked of her, β€œAre you the one, the grandmother who ate the apples in the beginning?” but she gave him no answer.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/an-cailleach
An Cailleach | Emerald Isle Irish and Celtic myths, fairy tales and legends

An ancient witch of the earliest days, the Cailleach