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@NeuKelte "#FolkloreThursday #Celtic: As with Beltaine all hearth fires would be extinguished at #Samhain in anticipation of this most significant event. As the golden fiery orb of the sun slipped beyond the horizon and darkness took hold huge communal bonfires were lit"
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"remains of rga are buried at Strongbow's Tree in Co. Waterford in the southeast of Ireland. It is said: the locals pile stones on her grave every year on the eve of her death thus preventing her from rising and sucking the life blood from their fleshy bones but sometimes 2/3"
X Link @NeuKelte 2025-10-15T15:08Z 4853 followers, XX engagements

"#MythologyMonday #Celtic: #Cuchulainn went in a scythed chariot to Forgall's palace. He leaped over its triple walls and slew everyone who came near him. Forgall met his death in trying to escape Cuchulainn's rage. 1/3"
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"law of the human mind which has always held the unknown to be the terrible. The Cornish Britons gazing from the shore saw Gower and Lundy and deemed them outposts of the over-sea #Otherworld. 3/5"
X Link @NeuKelte 2025-10-21T12:10Z 4853 followers, XX engagements

"To the Britons of Wales Ireland was no human realm a view reciprocated by the Gaels who saw Hades in Britain while the Isle of Man was a little Hades common to them both. 4/5"
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"Nor even was the sea always necessary to sunder the world of ghosts from that of "shadow-casting men. Source: #Celtic Myth & Legend Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire 5/5"
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"The princess and her lover felt safe enough and were married: they multiplied and became numerous while their town grew to be as it were another Sodom; and the original pair lived on so astonishingly long that they saw their descendants of the ninth generation. 4/6"
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"They exulted in their prosperity and one day held a great feast to celebrate it; and when their descendants were banqueting with them and the gaiety and mirth were at their zenith ancestors and descendants were one and all drowned in a mighty cataclysm which produced the 5/6"
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"#FairyTaleTuesday: In 1859 an Isle of Man farmer offered a heifer as a burnt offering near Tynwald Hill to avert the anger of the ghostly occupant of a barrow which had been desecrated by opening. Source: #Celtic Myth & Legend Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire"
X Link @NeuKelte 2025-10-21T18:08Z 4850 followers, XXX engagements

"Zoho: #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: Huarn went off to seek his fortune. His intended Bellah gave him three Talismans. Among these was a bell that would ring when he was in danger"
X Link @NeuKelte 2025-10-22T17:48Z 4850 followers, XXX engagements

"Huara went until he reached the Isle of Lok where the groach lived surrounded by treasures gathered from ships that sank in the ocean"
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"Huach almost forgot himself in the splendor of this #fairyland but back home Bellah heard the bell ring and disguised as a boy came rushing to save her promised lover. As they escaped together the sea drowned the palace of the tempting but destructive #Breton water-witch"
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"Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore"
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"Torches would be dipped into the sacred fire and carefully carried home to rekindle the hearth fires thus representing the power of the sun keeping the dark winter at bay in peoples homes and bringing the Gods blessings to the inhabitants"
X Link @NeuKelte 2025-10-23T16:36Z 4850 followers, XX engagements