„Probably because fine weather was so important during harvest time, the #Cailleach was seen as a weather spirit, sometimes called the old gloomy woman or envisioned as a crane with sticks in her beak which forecast storms.“
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic#Mythology and #folklore
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The Cailleach is the embodiment of winter itself, an old woman and witch who flies like a storm over Ireland and Scotland and wields a powerful hammer that can break trees during a cold snap. A trickster and almost certainly a goddess, she can bless too. #FairyTaleTuesday
Tor Mór was a tower without doors and only windows, where Balor of the Evil Eye locked his daughter Ethniu away: she was destined to give birth to the child that would slay the Fomorian chief, and so he fearfully locked her away. Yet destiny has its way. #LegendaryWednesday