#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: Manchán Magan, author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, described the #Cailleach as: “the personification of winter … her veil may have represented the land being clad in frost and snow. In #Scotland and the North of #Ireland her method for hastening winter was flying and beating back the summer vegetation with her cudgel … [s]he’d stir up strong winds or set the sea spewing by belting the sky and the earth. Her primary impetus wasn’t so much malevolence as a wish to agitate, to incite change - an awareness that things require an animating force.”
Source: Ali Isaac https://twitter.com/RubyFaesRealm/status/1620678633336750080
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday#WyrdWednesday: Once a beautiful blonde mermaid had warned a fisherman's son about the ice masses of the Danube. Together with his father, he had informed all his neighbours so that they could all get to safety from the flood. Since then, the young man thought only of the "Donauweibchen". Finally, on a bright full moon night, he rowed out onto the wide river. With arms spread wide, he went into the water - the "Donauweibchen" had fetched him.
Quelle: Freunde des Kahlenbergerdorfes "Sagen- und märchenhaftes Kahlenbergerdorf"
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