#Celtic#MythologyMonday: #FinnmacCool is depicted as a magical, benevolent giant. In a #Manx Gaelic tale, Fionn and the Buggane (a Manx huge ogre-like creature) fought at Kirk Christ Rushen. As Finn fled across the sea, the buggane tore out one of its own teeth and hit Fionn with it. The tooth fell into the water and became a chicken rock, and Fionn cursed the tooth and explained why it was a danger to sailors.
@NeuKelte "Fionn's wife, Oonagh, disguised Fionn as a baby and tucked him into a cradle. When the buggane saw the size of the 'baby', he thought that its father, Fionn, must be a giant among giants, and so he left" (from Wikipedia under "buggane")
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#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: „A buggane was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. A shapeshifter, the buggane is generally described as a malevolent being that can appear as a large black calf or human with ears or hooves of a horse. Its natural form is described as "covered with a mane of coarse, black hair; it had eyes like torches, and glittering sharp tusks". Another tale describes it as a huge man with bull's horns, glowing eyes and large teeth. As magical creatures, bugganes were unable to cross water or stand on hallowed ground.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggane
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RT @Katinesss
The Buggane, in #Manx folklore, is the ultimate baddie: a supernatural ogre-like creature, with long black hair, cloven hooves, claws, tusks, and a blood-red mouth that decapitates its prey. Sometimes the fairies would hire a Buggane to punish a human who displeased them. 3/
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: The Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse in Welsh folklore, a counterpart of the Scottish kelpie.
In her 1973 book Follore and Folktales of #Wales, Marie Trevelyan says that the Ceffyl Dŵr was believed to shapeshift and even fly, although this varies depending on region. For example, in North Wales he is represented as being rather formidable with fiery eyes and a dark foreboding presence, whereas in South Wales he is seen more positively as, at worst a cheeky pest to travellers and, at best, as Trevelyan puts it, "luminous, fascinating and sometimes a winged steed". https://twitter.com/JoyParry13/status/1617901229635678209
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceffyl_Dŵr
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: A #buggane found himself an inadvertent stowaway on a ship bound for Ireland. Determined to return to the Isle of Man, the shapeshifter caused a storm and guided the ship towards the rocky coast of Contrary Head. His plan was interdicted through the intervention of St. Trinian. Incensed, the buggane screamed, "St. Trinian should never have a whole church in Ellan Vannin." When the chapel came to be built, three times the local people put a roof on, and three times the buggane tore it off.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggane
#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: The tarroo-ushtey, the #Manx Water-Bull, is an "amphibious creature" with every semblance of a natural bull, but a cow mating with it calves only a misshapen "lump of flesh and skin without bones" and often dies giving birth. Waldron also wrote that a neighbor detected a stray bull in his herd and, suspecting it to be a Water-Bull, rounded up a group of men with pitchforks to give it chase. The beast, however, dove into a river and eluded them, bobbing its head up in mockery.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn
13 Nov 1662: A six-man jury on the Isle of Man find Illiam Dhône or William Christian #Manx leader "a traitor for his [1651]insurrection" against the Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby #otd (Manx National Heritage)
2 Jan 1663: Illiam Dhône or William Christian #Manx leader executed by shooting #otd at Hango Hill on a charge of High Treason against the Countess of Derby in 1651. He died of his wounds. (Manx National Heritage)
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday#WyrdWednesday: The #Fynnodderee is a #Manx folkloric figure. The hairy one of the #IsleOfMan loved human women – so much so that he was evicted from the #Otherworld for missing too many Fairy dances while pursuing non-fairy maidens. He roamed about, neither of this world nor the other, unable to settle down or to cut his long shaggy hair. Despite his loneliness, the fynnodderee was invariably kind to humans and could be as helpful as a Brownie.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/grimoriobestias/status/1324274240389074945?t=VXUDOfLr_-r1ldA9JZy9dA&s=09
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: The #Cailleach was both ageless and immortal; as winter gave way to spring, she would take a drought that returned her to youth. In #Manx legend, she spent half the year as a young woman and the other half as a old crone—she was only known as the Cailleach during the latter half. In #Ireland, she had seven periods of youth, after which she remained old permanently.
Source: https://mythopedia.com/topics/cailleach
