Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World).
Lugh said: „Only these apples will satisfy me, as they are the best and most beautiful in the world. This is what they are made of: Their color is that of polished gold, and the head of a one-month-old child is no larger than any one of these apples. When you dine on them, they taste like honey, and bleeding wounds and the most malignant diseases disappear. The apples do not diminish when eaten, even if one eats from them for a long time and constantly. Whoever succeeds in taking one of these apples has accomplished his greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.“
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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#LegendaryWednesday
In Greek myth the Hesperides were 3 sisters who tended the goddess Hera’s garden. In the garden grew a magical tree that pro…
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #Diancecht had inserted a prosthesis of silver for #Nuada's severed arm, but a black beetle lived in it, causing the king terrible pain by nibbling at his wound. With the help of his sister #Airmed, #Miach was able to grow him a new arm. But Diancecht then killed his son out of jealousy and buried him in the ground. From #Miach's grave, however, 365 different medicinal herbs grew through #Airmed's tears, which she named and saved. When #Diancecht found out, he mixed them all up so that their powers were lost. Only #Airmed knew them and knew how to use them.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`

#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: `#Nettle spinach has been used since time immemorial as a #spring cure to purify the blood.`
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“

`The #hawthorn gradually came to epitomise protection and security because it passionately likes to settle on the edge of cultivated land together with blackthorn, wild rose, blackberry, buckthorn and elderberry to form a natural hedge, as it were, as a border between the land tamed by man and the untamed, wild land.`
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“ #Celtic
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: `Tea made from #hawthorn flowers (also mixed with hawthorn leaves) is traditionally taken over a long period of time to g…
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as a border between the land tamed by man and the untamed, wild land.`
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“
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`Tea made from #hawthorn flowers (also mixed with hawthorn leaves) is traditionally taken over a long period of time to gradually and gently lower pathologically increased blood pressure and, above all, to counteract arteriosclerosis. The use of hawthorn as a heart tonic has a long tradition in France, dating back to the time of the #druid doctors.`
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“ #Celtic
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#FolkloreSunday: `Our ancient #Celtic ancestors made much use of the hawthorn. Young leaves could be included in salads, or mixed with speedwell and …
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hawthorn as a heart tonic has a long tradition in France, dating back to the time of the #druid doctors.` 
Source: Urbanovsky/Le Scouëzec „Der Garten der #Druiden“ 
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Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World).
Lugh said: „Only these apples will satisfy me, as they are the best and most beautiful in the world. This is what they are made of: Their color is that of polished gold, and the head of a one-month-old child is no larger than any one of these apples. When you dine on them, they taste like honey, and bleeding wounds and the most malignant diseases disappear. The apples do not diminish when eaten, even if one eats from them for a long time and constantly. Whoever succeeds in taking one of these apples has accomplished his greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.“
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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RT @ElsaMc1878
#LegendaryWednesday
In Greek myth the Hesperides were 3 sisters who tended the goddess Hera’s garden. In the garden grew a magical tree that pro…
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greatest feat, since he will never lose it again.“
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World).
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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RT @ElsaMc1878
#LegendaryWednesday
In Greek myth the Hesperides were 3 sisters who tended the goddess Hera’s garden. In the garden grew a magical tree that pro…
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Beltane – Das Fest der Vereinigung

Neben Samhain gehört Beltane zu den wichtigsten Festen im modernen Heidentum. Die Vereinigung von Gott und Göttin, Hochzeiten, der Sommeranfang, die Verbindung zur Anderwelt und die Verbindung zur Erde, den

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#Ahnenverehrung #Blütenzauber #Druiden #Feuerzeremonie #Folklore #Fruchtbarkeit #Frühlingsfest #GöttinderFruchtbarkeit #HeidnischeRituale #Hexenfest #Hexenfeuer #Hochzeit #Jahreskreisfes

#Celtic #mythology tells that the #Boyne was formed when #Bóand desecrated the secret spring of her husband #Nechtan in the Síd by walking around three times against the course of the sun (tuaithbel). 3 waves broke over Boand from the spring of #Nechtan and took from her a thigh, a hand and an eye. #Bóand fled to the mouth of the Boyne into the sea, whereupon she was drowned in it.
`Segáis is not only the name of the secret well of wisdom but also the name given to Bóand herself. She was called by that name in the #Otherworld, and that the other name for the Boyne is Sruth Segsa, “river of Segáis.” If the well were in the possession of Bóand from the start, as this implies, rather than of her husband Nechtan, the likelihood that her drowning was not punishment but creation is heightened.`
Sources: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden` + P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: Stories of both the Boyne and the Shannon rivers include descriptions of the magical #hazel groves that fed the fish …
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#Bran mac Febail received a silver apple branch of the tree of Emain from the Queen of the "Woman's Land". She sang 50 stanzas for him. Hence his longing for the #Otherworld was irresistible. Bran's journey lasted several centuries.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
#Celtic
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One of the companions of #Bran the Seafarer was seized by longing for home in #Ireland. Despite a warning, #Nechtan, the son of Collbran, jumped from the boat. Upon contact with the earth, he immediately crumbled to ashes. The hundreds of years of absence in the #Otherworld had caught up with him, when he had crossed the 'insurmountable barrier between the eternal-mystical and the human time'.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
#Celtic
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One of the eeriest episodes of the Irish legend of the Voyage of Bran concerns an island whose inhabitants do nothing but inexplicably stare a…
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World).
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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RT @ElsaMc1878
#LegendaryWednesday
In Greek myth the Hesperides were 3 sisters who tended the goddess Hera’s garden. In the garden grew a magical tree that prod…
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: The cluichi caintech was a competition in pre-Christian #Ireland, which followed the funeral ceremonies on the death of a hero.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`

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Lughnasadh | Ancient Festival

In Irish mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have been begun by the god Lugh (Lú) as a funeral feast and athletic competition in commemoration of his mother (or foster-mother) Tailtiu.

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Among the talismans #Lugh demanded from Tuireann's three sons as punishment for the murder of his father #Cian were three apples (according to the tale, from the Hesperides Garden in the East of the World).
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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#LegendaryWednesday
In Greek myth the Hesperides were 3 sisters who tended the goddess Hera’s garden. In the garden grew a magical tree that produced golden apples, those who ate the fruit gained immortality. The sisters with Ladon the dragon were tasked with protecting it.

#AppleDay: Because of the heat under their feet on the #Celtic #Otherworld island of the `burning earth`, #MaelDuin and his seafarers had to collect the apples by night. These saved them from hunger and thirst.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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It's #Apple Day in the UK.
In #Irish #mythology, there is a mythical island called Emain Ablach.
"Ablach" means apple.
It is the domain of sea god Manannán.
He once gave the branch with soothing, golden apples to legendary High King Cormac in exchange for his family.

On his sea voyage #Mael Duin passes another island of the #Celtic #Otherworld, which was surrounded all around by high cliffs. There was an immeasurably long and equally narrow strip of forest there. On a tree branch that Mael Duin breaks off as the boat sails very close to the cliffs, three apples hang after three days. Each of them was food for them for 40 days.
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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Manannán’s kingdom was Emain Ablach (of the apples) & Mag Mell; oversea & undersea, sometimes equated with Avalon

On #MaelDuin`s sea voyage to the #Otherworld they rowed for a long time `until another wonderful island showed itself to them, where there was a fabulous forest full of fragrant apples. When the wind moved the treetops, a music sounded that was more beautiful than anything else. The Ui Corra ate a few apples and drank some of the wine from the river that meandered through the middle of the forest. Their hunger & thirst were quenched instantly & they felt neither wounds nor sickness.`
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`
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A Fruit from Emain Ablach