RT @JoyParry13
#FairyTaleTuesday
Siblings #Crearwy (1 of the 3 most beautiful maids in Britain), #Morfran (so ugly nobody would wound him in battle in case he was the devil) & #Taliesin the great bard were the varied offspring of sorceress Ceridwen & giant Tegid Foel.
#Mabinogion

#Celtic #Fairytale: #Ceridwen, the 'Beloved Beautiful', was skilled in magic and divination. For year and day she cooked herbs in order to make her ugly son #Morfran more acceptable by becoming a fortune teller through three drops of it.
However, #Gwion had pushed Morfran aside and was hit by the 3 drops of the potion. He turned into a hare, but the sorceress pursued him in the form of a black hunting dog.
But now #Gwion changed into a fish whereupon the sorceress slipped into the shape of an otter. But from the fish form the boy changed into a bird.
#Ceridwen pursued him as a sparrowhawk. Now the boy dropped as a wheat grain on a pile of wheat.
Finally #Ceridwen took the form of a black hen and pecked up the grain of wheat that #Gwion had turned into. After 9 months #Gwion was reborn. The sorceress did not have the heart to kill her unwanted child and abandoned the little boy in a #Coracle. He survived and became the famous poet #Taliesin.