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'The Morrigan: Celtic Goddess of Magick and Might,' by Courtney Weber

The Morrigan ('phantom queen' or 'great queen') is famous for being a goddess of war, witchcraft, death, protection and retribution.

🎨 Magdalena Kaczan

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In Irish myth The Morrigan is a goddess of war and death. Spurned in love by Cúchulainn, she hinders him in battle. Some legends say she was gifted with foresight, and, thus able to predict the death of warriors which she used to influence the outcome of war.

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When the baby daughter of the Moon Giant and the Giantess of the Great River was born it was decreed among the giants that she should be the Princess of all the Springs and should rule over all the rivers and lakes.Her smile was like moonlight on still waters.

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Eight Mules from Monterey
by Patricia Beatty

Fayette longs for an exciting summer. And she gets it—on the back of a mule. A library in a saloon? In a general store? In a post office? Sounds crazy, but not to thirteen-year-old Fayette Ashmore’s mother!

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An Irish youth discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the spell of a Celtic goddess



Song of the Sea, 2014
Dir. Tomm Moore

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Gordafarid is a woman warrior in the Persian epic poem The Shahnameh, described as "a lion eager for battle." She delays enemy troops marching on Persia by riding out to meet them, roaring, "Where are your heroes, your warriors, your tried & tested chieftains?"

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In the Chinese tale "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," a serpent terrorizes a village into feeding him a maiden once a year in exchange for their safety. A girl volunteers to be the sacrifice, then pulls out a sword & slays the serpent with help from her hunting dog.

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This is what the Spring Fairy said: "Everything is waking from its winter sleep. […]In the garden plots crocuses and snowdrops and golden daffodils nod to one another across the ground,primroses and violets scent the air, and hyacinths ring their merry chimes.“

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In Welsh mythology sea god Dylan Eil Tôn personifies darkness, his twin Lleu Llaw Gyffes light. At the spring equinox night & day are of equal length - after which the balance tips towards the light ....

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'In an age before this, and the one before that, when time was an infant and dawn dews were diamonds, there lived a worthy knight who performed many deeds of valour to keep marauders from raiding the shores of his homeland...'
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Persephone to Hades
‘You are the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told…
You showed me how a love like ours can turn even the darkest, coldest realm into the happiest of homes.’ N. Gill

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Jarilo is a Slavic god of fertility, spring & the life-death-rebirth cycle. He's the lost tenth son of Perun but was abducted & taken to the underworld by Veles. He was raised there by him, but returns to the surface every year, bringing springtime with him.

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According to Polish legend, a cat was crying as her kittens fell into the river chasing butterflies and a sympathetic willow tree rescued the drowning kittens with its long branches. Each Spring the willow sprouts catkins where the kittens clung to its branches

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In this week's episode, we talk about the 5 types of fairies, The Mermaid of Zennor, , the Lizard Peninsula and more! Listen here: https://t.co/FqoX7ocm5n

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Daffodils were the harbinger of Spring in the distant past. It was once believed that if you looked at a daffodil and it drooped, it was an omen of death.

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