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Songs and Shrouds: The Mythical Banshee and the Bean Nighe as Harbingers
... and grief. S.T./ Flickr Since the Otherworld of Irish mythology can be interchangeable in certain texts as either ... Featured image: Similar to banshee and bean nighe of Celtic legend, i n Slavic folklore, vilas and rusalkas were ... New York, 1976.) Evans Wentz, W.Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Citadel: New York, 2003.) Illes, Judika. ...
Riley Winters - 08/04/2015 - 01:28
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Was Dracula Story inspired by Abhartach, the Bloodsucking Chieftain of Ireland?
... ) Just over a decade ago, Bob Curran, a lecturer in Celtic History and Folklore at the University of Ulster, ... Abhartach and buried him standing up, as befitted a Celtic chieftain. However, the story goes that Abhartach ... Dracula is based on the Wallachian Vlad or Irish mythology. Still, old habits die hard, and while Transylvania ...
dhwty - 02/05/2015 - 00:22
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Väinämöinen: The Finnish Deity and Hero Who Inspired Tolkien to Create Gandalf and Tom Bombadil
... the spectrum of motifs and many characteristics of Norse mythology and Finnish folklore. R.W Ekman: Väinämöinen. ( ... to be expected: To have power over something [like] the mythology of the Kalevala one must know its origins and be ... not notice the analogies among his books and old Norse and Celtic myths. Top image: Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Departure ...
Natalia Klimczak - 27/01/2017 - 19:54
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When Irish Legends and History Combine: The Tomb of the Fairy Queen Maeve
... she was called Meḋḃ, Meaḋḃ and Medb. In old Irish mythology, she appears as a fairy queen and an independent ... created a beautiful vision of the goddess based on the old mythology. According to Patricia Telesco: Maeve’s themes ... his sling, from T. W. Rolleston's Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911 (illustration by Stephen Reid). ( Public ...
Natalia Klimczak - 06/02/2017 - 02:05
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Comparing the Prehistoric Stone Symbols of Scotland and the Judaculla Rock
... University researcher Gilbert Markus, an expert in Celtic and Gaelic Cultures, tackles this issue in what he ... of enigmatic cupmarks and cup and ring symbols? Norse Mythology Gaelic traditions of both Ireland and Scotland make ... were underworld giants . This name also fits with the mythology, as in the tales they are regarded as giants that ...
Mark A. Carpenter - 05/09/2021 - 14:37
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Ring of Skulls: Ancient and Modern Sacrifices to the Water Gods
... One of the more commonly recognized deities of water mythology is the Greek god Poseidon (to the Romans he was ... to protect vessels from harm while at sea. A sea deity in Celtic mythology, Manannán mac Lir is widely seen in Irish, ...
ancient-origins - 17/07/2014 - 23:55
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The Legend of Princess Tuag: An Irish Tragedy
... Mac Lir, the mighty god of the sea. According to Irish mythology, Manannan was a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann , a ... hidden knowledge. Examining the Rich Tomb of a Mysterious Celtic Princess Could Ireland’s Cairn T Really Be the Tomb ... The legend of Princess Tuag is a tragic tale in Irish mythology. Source: Вероника Преображенс / ...
dhwty - 25/12/2021 - 18:00
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Does the Iconic Plate on the Gundestrup Cauldron Depict an Ancient Poem?
... striking humanoid figure is often presumed to depict a Celtic god, Cernunnos, although the exact identity of this ... 3.0 ) This is a critical clue, because in the ancient Celtic tongue , the word torc carried dual meanings. On ... H. 1903. The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology . Hodges, Figgis and co, Dublin, p 29. Macalister, ...
Patrick Fresne - 10/02/2024 - 16:53
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Ring of Skulls: Ancient and Modern Sacrifices to the Water Gods
... One of the more commonly recognized deities of water mythology is the Greek god Poseidon (to the Romans he was ... Sea (Creative commons, www.CGPGrey.com ) A sea deity in Celtic mythology, Manannán mac Lir is widely seen in Irish, ...
lizleafloor - 22/02/2016 - 00:58
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The Slain Will Rise Again: Lost Valkyries Remembered
... fights." (Sacred-Texts.com) The Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology The Tale of Thorstein Shiver: Hell Confirmed for ... Saga Age Beware the Wandering Wilas The norns of Norse mythology (Urd, Verdande and Skuld) by J.L. Lund. ( Public ... Myths and Symbols of Pagan Europe: early Scandinavia and Celtic religions (Syracuse University Press: New York, 1988.) ...
Riley Winters - 30/03/2017 - 19:03
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Polytheistic Religion: How Pantheons Reigned in the Ancient World
... This theory seeks to rationalize the stories found in mythology by suggesting that the gods in these tales are in ... their conquests, a good example of which being Sulis, a Celtic goddess worshipped at Bath. The Romans associated ... Bath. (Hchc2009/ CC BY SA 4.0 ) The Romans associated the Celtic goddess Sulis with their own Minerva and built a ...
dhwty - 22/01/2020 - 14:02
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Glastonbury Tor: The Mysterious British Hill Steeped in History and Legend
... the middle of the sea, which later became a lake. The old Celtic name of the Tor, according to this legend, was the ‘ ... would lead the pilgrim to the church of St Michael. But Celtic legends would say that this maze is the path that ... Stock Glastonbury is immersed in extremely interesting mythology and fascinating legends and is a very special place ...
Joanna Gillan - 20/02/2022 - 18:00
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Notorious Knight Greysteil and His Magical Sword Sit on the Cusp Between Legend and Reality
... feature in fantasy fiction. Being inspired by Norse and Celtic mythology, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ...
ashley cowie - 18/02/2018 - 20:10
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Tricking and Treating Has a Long History
... and Demons, Possession, and Death The Hill of Sorcery: Mythology and Archaeology of the Tlachtga Barrow People ... States until the 1840s, when waves of immigrants from the Celtic countries of Ireland and Scotland arrived. These ...
ancient-origins - 31/10/2017 - 17:57
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Malevolent Phantoms, Corpse Brides, and Ancestor Spirits: The Ancient Belief in Ghosts – PART I
... the Bean Nighe as Harbingers Beware the Wandering Wilas Celtic and Ancient European Undead Walk the Earth Many people have heard of the Banshee creatures of Celtic lore —women who had died prematurely and whose ... CC BY 2.0 ) Ancient Norse beliefs of ghosts included the mythology of the draugr, an undead creature, literally ...
lizleafloor - 16/10/2015 - 00:56
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Ireland as Atlantis – Ancient Egyptian and Greek Clues
... and Perseus, two of the most important characters in Greek mythology, were both said to have visited Hyperborea, which ... of Atlas’. The titan Atlas was a key figure in Greek mythology and is depicted as being the bearer of the heavens. ... Towers of Ireland . The Druids: Higgins, Godfrey, The Celtic Druids (Cosimo Classics, 2007) p. 121 Comet impact in ...
Keystone University - 05/07/2020 - 03:13
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Battle of the Gods, When Titans Took on Zeus
... Cronos gave it no thought and swallowed it in haste. A Celtic Creation: Sea-foam, the Placenta from the Birth of the ... Stock ) By B.B. Wagner References Black, J. 2013. Greek mythology and human origins . Ancient Origins. [Online] ... Bruxton, R. 2004. The Complete World of Greek Mythology . Thames and Hudson. Campbell, J. 1949. The Hero ...
B. B. Wagner - 13/10/2019 - 06:14
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In the Spirit of Science: Casting Light on the Enchanting Will-o’-the-Wisp
... to understand the place of Will-o’-the-Wisps in mythology and to establish what they actually are, we must ... record around the 13th century and tell us that ancient Celtic cultures in Britain and Ireland gave them dozens of ...
ashley cowie - 08/02/2018 - 18:56
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Newgrange and the Boyne Valley monuments – advanced lunar calculations and observation of the effects of precession of equinoxes in Neolithic Ireland - Part 1
... of its design, its alignments, its cosmology and its mythology that command the attention of those exploring its ... deeper than all this. In 1958, in his book about primitive mythology, Joseph Campbell recounted a folk tale from the ... stones visible. In his 1911 book about Fairy-Faith in the Celtic countries, W.Y. Evans-Wentz said: “But when we hear ...
anthonymurphy - 03/09/2013 - 09:32
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Worship? Meditation? Sacrifice? What Ancient Ritual Activities Were Held at the Externsteine Sacred Stone Formation?
... reindeer hunters • Neolithic meditation center • Celtic cave sanctuary • Germanic astronomical center • ... with permission. Carolyn Emerick writes about the history, mythology, and folklore of Northwestern Europe. Follow her on ...
ancient-origins - 03/01/2018 - 19:02