#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Milucra hoped to win over the legendary hero #Fionn mac Cumhaill, #Áine's lover. Knowing that her sister had sworn never to marry a man with gray hair, #Milucra secretly cast a spell on the lake near the summit of #SlieveGullion so that anyone who swam in it would grow old. She tricked Fionn by asking him to fetch her golden ring from the lake, and he emerged as an old man with gray-white hair. His men, the Fianna, forced her to give him a healing potion from her cornucopia. Fionn became young again, but his hair did not regain its true color. This is said to be the origin of his name Fionn, which means "white". In some versions of the tale, Milucra turned out to be the Cailleach Bhéara (Calliagh Birra), an ancient goddess. https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1590023742540783618?t=FCBA1DBT8zjGz6YnvhKT2g&s=09
Source: Slieve Gullion - Wikipedia
