Fionn mac Cumhaill
" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston
Lovely to be part of such a fab, folklore-filled window display @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
#dublin #mythologymonday #booksky #nature #IrishFolklore #customs #beliefs #myths #legends #gardening #spéirghorm #buylocal #bookchatweekly
Dive in the misty lanes of Irish Folklore with Unlock Kids - a series of enchanting jigsaw puzzles; where mystery meets wonder. #IrishFolklore #UnlockKids
https://www.spaziogames.it/recensioni/unlock-kids-trilogia-del-folklore-irlandese-recensione
Tomorrow on Cryptid Hunter, we dive into the chilling Irish legend of the Dullahan—a headless horseman with a glowing skull, a whip made of human spine, and one goal: deliver death.
This isn't your Sleepy Hollow story. It's older. It's darker. It's way more metal.
Episode drops 6/17—get ready.
In Ireland, sheets were once rinsed in a saffron infusion. This was believed to strengthen arms and legs during sleep...
#IrishFolklore #MythologyMonday
Fragment from a Minoan fresco from Santorini
"The Saffron Gatherers"
Malgré un accueil très positif, Le Peuple Loup est presque passé inaperçu en France ! Car diffusé dans peu de salles. Ceci explique pourquoi je ne l'ai découvert que tardivement.
Voici la bande annonce française 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4bkSBiTaQ
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I've finally seen Tomm Moore's latest creation, Wolfwalkers 
I loved it. One of the most beautiful animated film I've ever seen 
As a 5th-century saint, St. Patrick was roughly contemporary with King Arthur. Some say Patrick left Britain for Ireland in the reign of Ambrosius Aurelianus, Arthur's alleged uncle. Though there are legends of Arthur meeting numerous saints, none survive of him meeting Patrick.
Far darrigs are nasty, solitary Irish goblins famous for their red coats and rat-like features, including a snout and long tail. They love to play cruel tricks on humans, such as replacing babies with changelings or filling their sleep with nightmares Brian Froud
The werewolves of Ossory (a medieval Irish kingdom) are referenced in many Irish, English, and Norse texts. Their sins caused God to transform them into wolves. However, they were still Christian; a priest was once brought to perform last rites for a dying female werewolf.
"They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again,
Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back,
Between the night and morrow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
Deep within the lake,
On a bed of flag-leaves,
Watching till she wake."
- William Allingham, "The Fairies" Florence Mary Anderson
"By the craggy hillside,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For pleasure, here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night."
- William Allingham, "The Fairies" Cicely Mary Barker
Morrigan (also known as Morrigu), revered as a formidable deity in #Irishfolklore, embodies the Irish war goddess archetype and is one of the Triple Goddesses.
She is intricately associated with fate, particularly foretelling doom and death in the chaos of battle.
Morrigan frequently appears in the form of a crow, ominously flying over the battlefield. #NiftyBucklesFolklore
Iren Horrors
A folk tale in Donegal tells of all the fish voting on a king and electing the herring. The plaice was upset, and that's why its mouth is crooked
In many Irish folktales, the leprechaun is a skilled cobbler; the reason he has a pot of gold is that many fairies pay him to fix their shoes. W. B. Yeats theorized that most fairies need a good cobbler because they wear out their shoes with all their dancing. Tony DiTerlizzi
My first review of 2025, A Fix of Light by Kel Menton, coming out February 6th. Loved this little gem of a book. Check out my review:
https://markkieltywriter.com/2025/01/06/book-review-a-fix-of-light-by-kel-menton/
#LGBTQ #Fantasy #IrishFolklore @littleislandbks #Octobooks #Octocon #MastoDaoine #YA #IrishLit
Bread in Irish folklore, and the "hungry grass", from Bríd Mahon's book Land of Milk and Honey
According to Irish folklore, the banshee is a type of female spirit whose terrible, mournful cries serve as a warning that a death will soon occur. The name banshee can be translated as "woman of the mound" or "fairy woman." #MythologyMonday
: William Henry Brooke
In the Irish folktale of 'The Wonderful Tune,' Maurice Connor was a blind piper whose playing was so marvelous that one day it so enamored a woman from the sea that she came up onto the shore to propose marriage and make him the "King of Fish." #MythologyMonday
Cú Chulainn ties himself to a standing stone to die on his feet, facing his enemies.
Illustration by Stephen Reid (1904)
