#Celtic#MythologyMonday: #FinnmacCool is depicted as a magical, benevolent giant. In a #Manx Gaelic tale, Fionn and the Buggane (a Manx huge ogre-like creature) fought at Kirk Christ Rushen. As Finn fled across the sea, the buggane tore out one of its own teeth and hit Fionn with it. The tooth fell into the water and became a chicken rock, and Fionn cursed the tooth and explained why it was a danger to sailors.
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: The #Cailleach was both ageless and immortal; as winter gave way to spring, she would take a drought that returned her to youth. In #Manx legend, she spent half the year as a young woman and the other half as a old crone—she was only known as the Cailleach during the latter half. In #Ireland, she had seven periods of youth, after which she remained old permanently.
Source: https://mythopedia.com/topics/cailleach
2 Jan 1663: Illiam Dhône or William Christian #Manx leader executed by shooting #otd at Hango Hill on a charge of High Treason against the Countess of Derby in 1651. He died of his wounds. (Manx National Heritage)
13 Nov 1662: A six-man jury on the Isle of Man find Illiam Dhône or William Christian #Manx leader "a traitor for his [1651]insurrection" against the Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby #otd (Manx National Heritage)
#Celtic#FairyTaleTuesday: „A buggane was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. A shapeshifter, the buggane is generally described as a malevolent being that can appear as a large black calf or human with ears or hooves of a horse. Its natural form is described as "covered with a mane of coarse, black hair; it had eyes like torches, and glittering sharp tusks". Another tale describes it as a huge man with bull's horns, glowing eyes and large teeth. As magical creatures, bugganes were unable to cross water or stand on hallowed ground.“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggane
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RT @Katinesss
The Buggane, in #Manx folklore, is the ultimate baddie: a supernatural ogre-like creature, with long black hair, cloven hooves, claws, tusks, and a blood-red mouth that decapitates its prey. Sometimes the fairies would hire a Buggane to punish a human who displeased them. 3/
#Celtic#FolkloreThursday: The tarroo-ushtey, the #Manx Water-Bull, is an "amphibious creature" with every semblance of a natural bull, but a cow mating with it calves only a misshapen "lump of flesh and skin without bones" and often dies giving birth. Waldron also wrote that a neighbor detected a stray bull in his herd and, suspecting it to be a Water-Bull, rounded up a group of men with pitchforks to give it chase. The beast, however, dove into a river and eluded them, bobbing its head up in mockery.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glashtyn
Apparently this cardboard box said something about their mothers because they have f*cked this thing up. The terror of two tuxedo cats, Mr. Minx and Oreo are both crazy! 🤪
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: On the Isle of Man the #Berrey Dhone (Brown Berry) lived either on top of North Barrule Mountain or inside it. Like other forms of the #Cailleach, this hag or witch was an Amazonian giant, and her rocky heelprint can still be seen on the mountainside.
Source: Ali Isaac #Celtic
Photocredits: 1. Neu-Kelte
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: Cronk ny Arrey Laa is a hill in the south west of the Isle of Man and according to @oldweirdbritain traditionally the usual home of the #Manx weather spirit „Old Woman of Gloominess“ (aka #Caillagh Ny Groamagh).
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney on the Isle of Man: The summit of Cronk ny Arrey Laa is one of the few places anywhere with views of what #Manx people call "the six kingdoms" (Mann, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Heaven), with some adding a seventh "kingdom", Neptune (the sea).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronk_ny_Arrey_Laa
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in Glen Rushen, Isle of Man: John Rhys supposes that it is to Glen Rushen the Fenodyree from the tale „The Stone mover“ has gone off to.
In the folklore of the Isle of Man, the Fenodyree is a hairy supernatural creature, a sort of sprite or #fairy (#Manx: ferrishyn), often carrying out chores to help humans, like the brownies of the larger areas of Scotland and England.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenodyree
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: A superstition is to greet the fairies (an English term for the Mooinjer Veggey ("Little People"); historically never called fairies or ferrish by the #Manx and not of similar disposition to the English #fairies) when crossing the Fairy Bridge; it is considered unlucky not to greet them.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Bridge_(Isle_of_Man)
Mr. Minx really loves his adopted son Oreo. They're having whiskers Wednesday spa day to prepare for Caturday. For the large group of dogs and cats I currently they all get along surprisingly well. 👍
Hi everybody!👋🙂 It's a super lazy Caturday at the Harper House. I fed Mikey the turtle and cleaned his enclosure. 🐢 My wife cooked me a delicious potato, pepper, onion and cheese omelette. 🍳 Now we're just playing some Xbox on the couch, my daughter is pretending to sleep to avoid chores. 🤦 You can see what the furry kids are up to...
Have a chill day and take a puff for me if that's your thing! 😉
Goodnight from the Three Mouseketeers: Elsa, Mr. Minx and Oreo. It's been a long day in St. Louis, we're watching another 15 minutes of Heat, the heist movie, then going to bed. 😴💤
Good morning everyone on the other side of the world. 🌎👋
Happy Caturday everyone! I'm off to a friend's kids party but wanted to share whatever this is 1st. Part hug part headlock. Oreo and Mr. Minx are quite the pair.
#Fairies were not evil. However, they were amoral, not tied to the moral and ethical demands of humanity. They were merely playful troublemakers rather than devilish opponents. They commonly tried to lead travelers astray. This was a minor inconvenience and could be quite frightening, but even without protection, the #fairy eventually grew bored with the trick and released the ensnared human. More seriously, the fairies attempted to lure useful or attractive people into the #Otherworld, to do their bidding until released.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#FairyFriday: The #Manx ferrishyn liked to disorient people who walked the hills in the evening, turning them around so that they do not know where they are headed.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/flamencobug/status/1111319133818376193