#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: Prince O'Donall was a brave fellow, and powerful, but given to risk and heedless thrills in his hunting and leaping and running and swimming, all the better to impress his friends. In his pursuit of ever greater excitement, he walked down paths that few have tread, and even fewer had come back from! Strange trysts he held in moonlit groves and books that were old when the hills were young he read, and from them he learned the old Druid ways of turning himself into any shape or form he desired. This was a great gift, but the one who taught it to him warned him sternly – beware should a woman screech while he was in any body but his own, or the dark old night from which he drew his strange faculties would claim him as his own! Eventually, the prince‘s wife, tired of hearing about his wonders, demanded to see them. He warned her to remain silent during his transformations. First, he became a stag, parading around with candles on his horns. Next, he transformed into a large fish, swimming in a beforehand for him built pool on the roof of the castle. The castle creaked and spun, causing his wife to scream in fear. At her scream, he leapt into a lake, disappearing forever. https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1780301631478702305
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