#FairyTaleTuesday: #Etain, daughter of Etar, wore a bright purple mantle waved round her; and beneath it was another mantle ornamented with silver fringes: the outer mantle was clasped over her bosom with a golden brooch. A tunic she wore with a long hood that might cover her head attached to it; it was stiff and glossy with green silk beneath red embroidery of gold, and was clasped over her breasts with marvellously wrought clasps of silver and gold; so that men saw the bright gold and the green silk flashing against the sun.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
There is a legend that there was once a large lake where the #Loibltal in #Carinthia opens today. But one day, on the advice of a mountain gnome, a charcoal burner set out to penetrate deep into the earth, where a #Lindworm was guarding a great treasure. But instead of just taking a few gems, the man got greedy and stole his golden egg from the dragon. When the mighty creature noticed this, it raged so terribly that the mountains split and the lake flowed through the resulting gorge. https://blog.mountainbatchers.de/region/alpen/karawanken/
In Norse myths, Garm is the watchdog of the Underworld. Garm and Tyr will kill each other at Ragnarok. Since Tyr had previously lost his hand to the similar Fenris Wolf, some scholars theorize that Garm and Fenris were the same beast in an earlier version.
🎨 Johannes Gehrts #FairyTaleTuesday
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: When the goddess #Boann went to the Tobar Segais, also known as the Well of Wisdom, her lapdog #Dabilla was trotting faithfully at her heels. As the waters rose to form the river Boyne, little Dabilla was tossed from wave to wave, like a sliotar between hurlers.
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#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: „Once, the cat was much admired for its independence, stealth and hunting prowess. In medieval times, this love of cats, particularly black cats, was considered a sign of witchcraft, and the cats were burned alive, along with the women who owned them, or were thought to own them.“
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#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: „In the British folk tale "The King of the Cats", a man comes home to tell his wife and cat, Old Tom, that he saw nine black cats with white spots on their chests carrying a coffin with a crown on it and one of the cats tells the man to "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum is dead." Old Tom then exclaims, "What?! Old Tim dead! Then I'm the King o' the Cats!" The cat then climbs up the chimney and is never seen again.“
Source: Cat-sìth - Wikipedia
King Arthur owned the hound Cavall in Welsh myth. His name is similar to a Latin word for "horse," indicating great size, strength, and speed. While hunting the giant boar Trwyth, Cavall left a permanent footprint on a stone cairn, which is impossible to remove. #FairyTaleTuesday
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: Was it in one of these caves that a she-wolf suckled the infant #Cormac who would one day become the rightful High King of #Ireland?
Source: Caves of Kesh - Wikipedia
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: Airitech had three daughters who were werewolves. Every #Samhain, they emerged from the Cave of Cruachan, said to be a gateway to the #Otherworld, to kill sheep. They liked music, so the poet Cas Corach played his harp to distract them, and persuaded them to change back into their human form. Caoilte, a warrior of the #Fianna, then cast a spear that penetrated all three at once, and so they were killed. https://twitter.com/ChristineV8/status/1322054923232681984
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When Sir Lancelot rescued Queen Guinevere from the otherwordly land of Gorre (Land of No Return), he faced many trials of the body and soul. Lancelot had to cross a bridge that was a huge razor-sharp sword to prove his courage to go on no matter how much it cut him. #FairyTaleTuesday
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday#FairyTaleFlash: On #Arthurs Seat in #Edinburgh there‘s a #hillfort of #IronAge date, which is connected with the legend of Arthur of Britain. Here young people still go on May Day morning in order to wash their faces in the dawn dew and make a wish. Source: Anne Ross #Celtic Britain`
The most powerful monster in Welsh legend was Trwyth, an evil man cursed by God to become a gigantic boar. King Arthur's greatest warriors attacked Trwyth to acquire the golden comb, scissors, and razor entwined in his fur, and the boar slaughtered many of them. #FairyTaleTuesday
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday#FairyTaleFlash: Several works relate a battle between the chapalu (or an anonymous cat) with King #Arthur himself (rather than with Kay). Sometimes the beast wins, sometimes King Arthur wins.
Source: Cath Palug - Wikipedia
The first record of Merlin is Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain." Geoffrey based Merlin on the Welsh prophet Myrddin from 100 years after King Arthur, but had him perform magic previously attributed to Arthur's father Uther and uncle Ambrosius. #FairyTaleTuesday
In Welsh sources such as "Culhwch & Olwen," many of King Arthur's warriors have weird superpowers with no explanation. Some can grow in size, leap over trees, drink a river dry, talk to animals, or glow red-hot. They're less like knights and more like the Avengers.
🎨 Margaret Jones #FairyTaleTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday#FairyTaleFlash: In a tale from South Germany collected by Ignaz and Joseph Zingerle, titled Die Schlange ("The Snake"), a count's wife gives birth to a serpent son who lives in his own chamber. When the snake is twenty years old, it requests his mother to find him a wife. On her wedding night, the maiden wears seven layers of clothing, as she was instructed to do, and to dispose of each layer as her husband sheds his own layers of snakeskin.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lindworm#Germany
#FairyTaleTuesday: The legend "The Lindworm of Goggausee" tells that a seven-year-old rooster once laid a red egg in a dunghill, from which a #Lindworm hatched after three years. The worm grew quickly and ate the cattle of the farmers in the area, so they made plans to kill the creature.
A sorcerer who lived in the area had the saving idea. He hid a poisonous black lump in a hay cart, and harnessed two oxen to the device. However, since no one dared to steer the cart to the dragon, a mentally handicapped servant was sent off with the cart. When the servant led the wagon past the Goggausee, the dragon jumped out and swallowed it along with the servant and the oxen. A short time later he died of the poison.
Source: https://drachen.fandom.com/de/wiki/Lindwurm_vom_Goggausee