#MythologyMonday: `"Good Donn," said Finn, "have you knowledge of any physician that can cure our men?" "I only know one physician could do that," said Donn; "a physician the Tuatha de Danaan have with them. And unless a wounded man has the marrow of his back cut through, he will get relief from that physician, the way he will be sound at the end of nine days." "How can we bring that man here," said Finn, "for those he is with are no good friends to us?" "He goes out every morning at break of day," said Donn, "to gather healing herbs while the dew is on them." "Find some one, Donn," said Caoilte, "that will show me that physician, and, living or dead, I will bring him with me." #Celtic
Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#MythologyMonday: `The battle between the Firbolgs and the Tuatha de Danaan went on for four days, and there were great feats done on each side, and a great many champions came to their death. But for those that were alive at evening, the physicians on each side used to make a bath of healing, with every sort of healing plant or herb in it, the way they would be strong and sound for the next day's fight.` #Celtic
Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#FolkloreSunday: From „A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases: based on Macintosh's collection“: `>The great churl's whisky, let`s drink it, and no thanks to him.< This is the only proverb in all the present collection in which whisky is mentioned ; and it is not an old one.` #Celtic

#FolkloreSunday: From „A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases: based on Macintosh's collection“: „A man may live though not full. One may live on little, though not on nothing. Tighten your belt till you get food. Eat less and buy it. Only dogs eat to surfeit. Hunger is a good cook. Hungry birds fight best. Big belly was never bountiful. A sweet mouth will send you to beggary. Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. I like not the drinking fellowship. The uneasy seat in the ale-house is best.“ #Celtic
Whiskey in the garden, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#FolkloreSunday: From „A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases: based on Macintosh's collection“: `>The intoxication of the ale he drank not.< The meaning seems to be that stupid or disorderly conduct, without the excuse of drink, is much worse. Ale, and not whisky, was the common stimulant when this saying arose.` #Celtic

#FolkloreSunday: `Gaelic sayings on the subject of food belong to a time when the cultivation of the soil, though of a rude and primitive kind, supplied the chief source of living to the population, and was done with ploughs and not with spades, when the great majority of the peasantry had horses, cows, and sheep, of their own. Their food consisted chiefly of oatmeal cakes, porridge, and gruel, butter and cheese, occasionally fish, very rarely meat. One Gaelic word peculiarly indicates the dependence of the Gael on the soil — ' Teachd-an-tir,' the yield of the land, the most common term for living, sustenance.` #Celtic
Source: „A collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases: based on Macintosh's collection“

#FindsFriday: ` In the wood-covered chamber of the so-called Colchester Druid/Surgeon a board game with blue and white glass pieces is highlighted, thirteen on each side of the board, which was in poor condition, although it was possible to reconstruct it thanks to the hinges and corners. And finally, eight metal rods were also found for divination purposes, to know if it was the ideal time for an operation.“ #Celtic
Source: https://mitologiaceltablog.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/druida-de-colchester/

#FindsFriday: `In the wood-covered chamber of the so-called Colchester Druid/Surgeon medical instruments were found resting on a board. Among them were scalpels, needles, tweezers and other items. A cup with remnants of herbal mugwort and a tea strainer containing other types of herbs associated with herbal remedies in ancient times were found." #Celtic
Source: https://mitologiaceltablog.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/druida-de-colchester/

#FindsFriday: Horned helmet found in the River Thames at Waterloo Bridge, 150-50 BC. Originally this helmet would have been a gleaming golden colour and decorated with red glass studs. This rare helmet is the only horned one to be found in Europe. It is unlikely to have been used in battle and was probably a form of ceremonial headdress. #Celtic
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday: `This leather children's shoe from the Hallein salt mine is something special. It roughly corresponds to today's shoe size 30 and thus proves the presence of children underground. A remnant of a lacing made of flax or linen has also been preserved. The shoe was probably made in the 2nd century BC.` #Celtic
Source: Montanarchäologische Grabungen fördern über 2000 Jahre alten Kinderschuh zutage (bergbaumuseum.de)

Modified from a design on bracelet book.com. (Those patterns are charted on a square grid, so end up stretched when transferred directly to a loom.) Final pic is the complete piece. Love how it turned out! Meant to try a border of strung beads but forgot, whoops. Next time.
Used nymo thread, which seems like it’s harder for me to keep even tension with? Will try Fire Line next time to compare.
#handmade #MastoArt #beads #beading #loombeading #celtic #art #crafting

#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). `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 colour 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.` #Celtic
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`

#FolkloreThursday: `A cattle-herding #brownie of the #Scottish islands, the #gunna hung about small farms making sure the cows did not trample the garden. As with many such helpful sprites, he went naked despite the weather. Any attempt to provide clothes drove the gunna away.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#FolkloreThursday: `In the plain of Bray, lay the Gardens of the Sun-god #Lugh. So sunny and so fair and fertile was that plain, with waving meadow-grass and buttercups, and the sweet may-blossom girdling the fields. Close all about the fort the gardens lay, with apple-trees shedding their pink and white upon the playing fields of brilliant green.` #Celtic
Source: Cuchulain, The Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#FolkloreThursday: One of the greatest #Celtic visions of the #Otherworld was that of Emain Albach, the Isle of Apples, a beautiful place of everlasting summer whose handsome residents danced the sun-drenched days away. The Otherworld looked like this world, only more beautiful and changeless: trees bore blossom and fruit at the same time there, no one ever aged or grew infirm, death had no dominion in the #Otherworld.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FolkloreThursday: The apples significance continues into folkloric uses such as that in the British Cotswolds, where an apple tree blooming out of season meant coming death. Symbolizing harmony and immortality, abundance and love, the apple was considered a talisman of good fortune and prosperity. Some have connected the word to Apollo, whose name may have originally been Apellon, a word derived from the same source as our word “apple.”
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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#WyrdWednesday: `A hand-sling stone had carried off the coronet or golden ‘mind’ that bound Meave’s hair, but hurting not so much as a lock upon her head. “A bad stroke that,” laughed out the fool that gambolled round the King, joking to make him merry; “had I been he who shot that stone, the head I would have taken off and left the ‘mind’ behind.”
Hardly were the words out of his foolish mouth, than a second stone, coming from the same direction as the first, in the full middle of his forehead struck the fool, and carried off his head, while at Meave’s feet dropped down his pointed cap.` #Celtic
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

When a strange light is seen at night in the Welsh wilderness, often it's a pwca's candle. These black-furred goblins love to play nasty tricks. Sometimes pwcas turn into animals (such as horses), other times they use their candles to lead travelers into bogs or off cliffs.
Huw Aaron