#FairyTaleTuesday: `What Patrick lit was a #Bealtaine blaze – not only an affront to the king’s power but as a threat to the sacred order that assured the land’s fertility. Not wonder the #druids were mad. After Patrick’s usurpation, the Church substituted Christ for the milky animal-mother and diverted celebration of life springing from death to Easter. But Bealtaine was not to be extinguished.` #Celtic
Source: Patricia Monaghan `The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog`
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