#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: #Tara was once reigned by a Wolf King. According to legend, #Cormac mac Art was the High King of Ireland at the same time as #Fionn mac Cumhaill was the leader of the #Fianna, c. the third century AD. He ruled from Tara for forty years, and during his reign, all of #Ireland flourished.
Source: Ali Isaac https://twitter.com/lethemain/status/593090313603915776
Conan mac Morna was regarded as the jester of the #Fianna Eireann, and no matter how rude and scoffing his speeches were, no one heeded them.#Celtic
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
#FairyTaleTuesday: Deceived by the splendid sight of Midacs palace that was surrounded by magical rowan trees, #Fionn Mac Cumhaill entered and made himself comfortable in the grand banquet hall. Midac came in, stared at them, and departed without a word. It was then that Fionn and his warriors realized that a trap had been set. They had been deceived by a glamour and were really being held hostage in a crude shack. One after another of the #Fianna warriors came to their rescue, with Diarmait finally lopping off Midac’s head. Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic#Mythology and #Folklore`
#Celtic#LegendaryWednesday: In the #CavesOfKesh powerful hags or goddesses, Camóg, Cuilleann and Iornach, described as members of the #TuathaDeDannan, held the great hero #Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the rest of the #Fianna captive. They were set to take revenge on Fionn on behalf of their father, who hated to see the wild things of his woods disturbed by the hunting of the Fianna.
Fionn’s archenemy Goll mac Morna rescued them. He was cleverer and experienced enough to not put one toe beyond the holly bush at the entrance to the enchanted place. He challenged the hags to battle and slaughtered them finally. Goll mac Morna was rewarded with the marriage to Fionns daughter Sgannlach. credit @EithneMassey Legendary #Ireland`
#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
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
#FairyTaleTuesday: #Milucra bewitched a lake near the summit of #SlieveGullion and tricked #Fionn Mac Cumhaill into swimming in it. He emerged silver-haired, aged and bent. The #Fianna, captured the #fairy and forced her to give their leader a restorative potion from her golden Cornucopia, but in doing so she made sure his hair remained silver. Some texts say it was the #Irish hero Cuilenn who came to Fionn’s rescue by offering him a drink from a golden cup, which also endowed the hero with wisdom.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1590023742540783618?t=FCBA1DBT8zjGz6YnvhKT2g&s=09
Deceived by the splendid sight of Midacs palace that was surrounded by magical rowan trees, #Fionn Mac Cumhaill entered and made himself comfortable in the grand banquet hall. Midac came in, stared at them, and departed without a word. It was then that Fionn and his warriors realized that a trap had been set. They had been deceived by a glamour and were really being held hostage in a crude shack. One after another of the #Fianna warriors came to their rescue, with Diarmait finally lopping off Midac’s head. Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic#Mythology and #Folklore` https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1526200149894213634?t=krGiVL6__mSb5jgFyicFYg&s=09
3 young warriors joined the #Fianna, but made it a condition that they shall camp apart from the rest of the host, and that when night has fallen no man shall come near them or see them, because one of them had to die each night. The mystery of why this had to happen could never be solved by #Fionn Mac Cumhaill.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
In the #CavesOfKesh powerful hags or goddesses, Camóg, Cuilleann and Iornach, described as members of the #TuathaDeDannan, held the great hero #Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the rest of the #Fianna captive. They were set to take revenge on Fionn on behalf of their father, who hated to see the wild things of his woods disturbed by the hunting of the Fianna.
His archenemy Goll mac Morna rescued them. He was cleverer and experienced enough to not put one toe beyond the holly bush at the entrance to the enchanted place. He challenged the hags to battle and slaughtered them finally. Goll mac Morna was rewarded with the marriage to Fionns daughter Sgannlach. credit @EithneMassey Legendary #Ireland` #Celtic