`The beautiful maiden #Sadb, daughter of the great magician Bobd Derg, was turned into a deer by one of his magical enemies, Fear Doirche. #Fionn Mac Cumhaill fell in love with a mysterious woman who visited him at night after he had saved a fawn from being killed by his hunting dogs. After many nights of pleasure, the dark sorcerer—her father’s enemy— found that Sadb had managed to slip out of her deer form and enjoy the hero’s affections. He cast a darker spell upon her so that she could never regain her womanly form.
Heartbroken, Sadb fled from her lover, who searched #Ireland for nearly a year. Then, near the great flat peak of Ben Bulben, he found a deer nursing a human infant. Recognizing his lover and their son, Fionn took the boy from her tenderly, naming him Oisín (“little fawn”).`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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SADB (SIVE) by #JimFitzPatrick
Sadb was a cult warrior goddess in the County Kerry region and goddess of all the arts, and the mother …
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#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: `The beautiful maiden #Sadb, daughter of the great magician Bobd Derg, was turned into a deer by one of his magical enemies, Fear Doirche. #Fionn Mac Cumhaill fell in love with a mysterious woman who visited him at night after he had saved a fawn
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SADB (SIVE) by #JimFitzPatrick
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In #Meiche`s heart were three great serpents. The hero Mac Cécht killed him, because had he lived, the serpents would have split his heart open and devoured all of #Ireland. Mac Cécht burned the heart to ashes, then threw the ashes into a river, which boiled to death every living creature within its waters. #Meiche was the only son of the #Morrígán.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Morrigan Na Badb by #JimFitzPatrick
The Crow of Battle and War-Witch of the Tuatha Dé.
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: #Etain, daughter of Etar, wore a bright purple mantle waved round her; and beneath it was another mantle ornamented with silver fringes: the outer mantle was clasped over her bosom with a golden brooch. A tunic she wore with a long hood that might cover her head attached to it; it was stiff and glossy with green silk beneath red embroidery of gold, and was clasped over her breasts with marvellously wrought clasps of silver and gold; so that men saw the bright gold and the green silk flashing against the sun.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
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MIDIR AND ETAIN FICHELL GAME Close up detail by #JimFitzPatrick
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: Aige`s beauty provoked so much envy that a spiteful #fairy transformed her into a doe.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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THE FAIRY FAITH by #JimFitzPatrick
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The final cover in the trilogy of covers for publisher Colin Smythe, the book titled ‘The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries’ by W.Y Evans Wentz…
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Ériu may have been a cosmic goddess, for she is described as decked in rings, while her name, which derives from the word for “round,” suggests that she originally may have been a solar or lunar goddess whose domain included the sky. Usually seen as a massive woman, Ériu was sometimes a long-beaked gray crow. She was also embodied in her sacred mountain, which slowly grew as she aged.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Ériu by #JimFitzPatrick
Ériu was a goddess of the mystical Tuatha Dé Danann. Éireann (the country of Irela…
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`The #fairy queen #Fand, “tear,” came to #CúChulainn, in a vision in which she whipped him senseless. The greatest of #Irish heroes fell into a lovesick stupor in which he lingered for a year. When the year had passed and the great feast of #Samhain came, he went to Fand, leaving behind his loyal wife #Emer. Although Emer had endured #CúChulainn`s other affairs, she could not bear to lose him to Fairyland, so she followed him. When she saw how deeply Fand loved him, and he her, Emer offered to step aside. Fand, not to be outdone, offered the same and returned to her own husband, Manannán Mac Lir, who wrapped her in his magical cloak to make her forget the human hero. On earth, #CúChulainn and #Emer drank a potion of forgetfulness and returned to their earlier state.`
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EMER, WIFE OF CÚ CHULAINN by #JimFitzPatrick
Emer, daughter of Forgall the Foreigner became wife of Cú Chulainn when, after her father…
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`The beautiful maiden #Sadb, daughter of the great magician Bobd Derg, was turned into a deer by one of his magical enemies, Fear Doirche. #Fionn Mac Cumhaill fell in love with a mysterious woman who visited him at night after he had saved a fawn from being killed by his hunting dogs. After many nights of pleasure, the dark sorcerer—her father’s enemy— found that Sadb had managed to slip out of her deer form and enjoy the hero’s affections. He cast a darker spell upon her so that she could never regain her womanly form.
Heartbroken, Sadb fled from her lover, who searched #Ireland for nearly a year. Then, near the great flat peak of Ben Bulben, he found a deer nursing a human infant. Recognizing his lover and their son, Fionn took the boy from her tenderly, naming him Oisín (“little fawn”).`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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SADB (SIVE) by #JimFitzPatrick
Sadb was a cult warrior goddess in the County Kerry region and goddess of all the arts, and the mothe…
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The #fairy Sin faked an army of blue men, men with goat heads and similar monsters that made Muircertach mac Erc go mad. After raging through illusions of rain and snow, he came home and fell into a dream in which he saw demons who wanted to punish him. Imagining the palace on fire, he leapt into a vat of wine, where he drowned. The fire was another of Sin’s illusions, a final revenge for his destruction of her family when he conquered Tara.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Nuada and The Collector of Lost Souls by #JimFitzPatrick
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THE KISS BENEATH THE SKY OF STARS by #JimFitzPatrick
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Fantasy Art Print from my original painting ‘The Kiss Beneath The Sky Of Stars’. This original artwork is based on the Celtic art, myths and legends of Ireland.

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THE KISS BENEATH THE SKY OF STARS by #JimFitzPatrick
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Fantasy Art Print from my original painting ‘The Kiss Beneath The Sky Of Stars’. This original artwork is based on the Celtic art, myths and legends of Ireland.