#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `A fine February, a cold November.`
Source: Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales by Mary Trevelyan

"What wilt thou have, Hans My Hedgehog?"

"Father,” [Hans] said, “bring me bagpipes, then go to the forge and get the rooster shod, and then I will ride away forever."

The father was delighted that he was going to be rid of him.

- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "Grimms' Fairy Tales"
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Many myths have a hero gaining allies with weird powers. In the German fairy tale "Six Servants," the powers of the hero's servants are respectively super-hearing, extreme height, super-vision, a huge appetite, immunity to heat and cold, and a stretchable neck.
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Imbolc is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring. It’s held on, or around, 1 February and is associated with the onset of the lambing season, the beginning of spring sowing, and the blooming of the blackthorn.`
Source: https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/08/06/blackthorn-dark-mother-of-the-woods-crone-of-the-triple-goddess-witch-wood/

#FairyTaleTuesday: `Gobnat was an Irish heroine, saint or goddess associated with bees, which served as her watchdogs, warning her against any danger that approached.
She is said to have been one of three sisters, the others being the more clearly mythological Crobh Dearg (or Lasair) and Latiaran. Early February the beginning of #spring in Ireland and the time of the #Celtic feast of Imbolc is devoted to Gobnait, suggesting that she was the first of a triad of seasonal goddesses, for her sisters are also linked to dates in the ancient calendar. A famous shrine to her is located at what is now Kilgobnet (church of Gobnat) in Co. Kerry.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: In Scotland, February 2nd was a Quarter Day till 1886. `They are known as 'Witches' Days', and fairies hold revels and raid helpless human beings on their Eves. It is said that the fairies remove to different dwellings at the beginning of each quarter.
Changelings can be got rid of on Quarter Days as they can at noon time, but it is unlucky to 'straddle' the beginning of a quarter-for example, by proclaiming a marriage at the end of one quarter and solemnizing it at the beginning of the next.
The turning points in time have a paradoxical quality everywhere. In one sense they do not exist; in another sense they epitomize the whole of existence.`
Source: CELTIC HERITAGE - Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales by Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees

In addition to their seminal work on fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm were linguists, noting the similarities of language. This led to the suggestion that cultures from India to Ireland share an ancestor: the theory of Indo-European language and culture. #FairyTaleTuesday

In addition to their seminal work on fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm were linguists, noting the similarities of language. This led to the suggestion that cultures from India to Ireland share an ancestor: the theory of Indo-European language and culture. #FairyTaleTuesday

The work of the Brothers Grimm is an early example of work that aids nationalism. They wanted to create specifically German stories, making them authentically German: except Germany didn't exist as a nation until 1871. It helped create a single German identity. #FairyTaleTuesday

The work of the Brothers Grimm is an early example of work that aids nationalism. They wanted to create specifically German stories, making them authentically German: except Germany didn't exist as a nation until 1871. It helped create a single German identity. #FairyTaleTuesday

Prior to 1840, the mother, not stepmother, of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? Most versions default to that. #FairytaleTuesday

Prior to 1840, the mother, not stepmother, of Hansel and Gretel is the villain who forces her husband to leave the children in the woods, but the Brothers Grimm sanitized the tale, for how could a biological mother do such a thing? Most versions default to that. #FairytaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `The God of Summer, Angus Og, did not want to wait until the winter seas were calm and decided to cast a spell on the land and sea – he borrowed three days from August and gave them to February and the sea drowsed serenely, allowing him to cross. That night, Bride had also dreamed of Angus, and awoke to the knowledge that he was arriving to free her. Violets blossomed where her tears of joy fell, as blue as her eyes.
When Angus at last came upon Ben Nevis and freed Bride from her prison, the Fairy Queen stepped out of the forest to greet them. She waved her wand, transforming Bride’s tattered clothes into a beautiful white and silver robe. In her right hand, she held a white wand adorned with golden corn-stalks, and a golden Horn of Plenty in her left.
The linnet was the first bird of the forest to hail Bride in all her beauty, and is dubbed by the Fairy Queen the ‘Bird of Bride’, and the oyster catcher was the first bird to chirp in joy on the shore, and the Fairy Queen named it the ‘Page of Bird’ hereafter. And so the Fairy Queen wed Angus and Bride, and as they walked forth, they came across a river coated in ice. Bride dipped her fingers in, and Ice Hag shrieked and fled as the ice melted under Bride’s touch.`
Source: Angus and Bride - Folklore Scotland

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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind killed one hundred on each ford from Ath Scennmend at Ollbine to the Boyne of Bray, and he fulfilled all the deeds that he had vowed to Emer, and he came safely out of it, and they reached Emain Macha towards the darkness of that night.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_4

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `After distracting Aife, #Cuchulaind approached her, seized her at her two breasts, took her on his back like a shoulder-load, and carried her with him to his own host. Then he threw her from him to the ground, and placed his bare sword over her. And Aife said: "Life for life, oh Cuchulaind!"
"My three wishes to me!" said he. "Thou shalt have them, as they come with thy breath," said she.
"These are my three wishes," said he, "thou to give hostage to Scathach, without ever afterwards opposing her, thou to be with me this night before thy dun, and to bear me a son."
“I promise it all thus,” said she.
It was done in that wise.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_3

Despite being an untrustworthy trickster, the Norse god Loki cannot break a oath, even one sworn under duress (such as swearing to deliver the Apples of Youth to a giant). However, even though Loki always honors the letter of his promises, he is skilled at escaping their consequences.
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind consented to go to Scathach to learn soldierly feats, and Forgall bound himself that were he to go in that time, he would give to Cuchulaind whatever he wished. Forgall went home, and the warriors arose in the morning and set themselves to do what they had vowed.
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_2

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `#Cuchulaind went across Bray to visit Emer. He spoke with the maiden before he went in his ship. She told him that it was Forgall who had desired him in Emain to go to learn soldierly feats, in order that Emer and he might not meet. And she told him to be on his guard wherever he went, lest he should destroy him.
Each of them promised the other to keep their chastity until they met again, unless either of them should get death thereby. They bade farewell to each other, and he turned towards Alba.`
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Tochmarc-emire/Tochmarc-emire-text.html#Extract_2

#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `Conganchnes [i.e. Horn-skin] mac Dedad devastated Ulster greatly. Spears or swords hurt him not, but sprang from him as from horn.
"Free us from this pest, O Celtchar!" said Conchobar.
"Surely I will," said Celtchar. And on a certain day he went to converse with the Horny-skin so that he beguiled him, promising to him his daughter, even Niam daughter of Celtchar, as well as a dinner for a hundred every afternoon to be supplied to him.
Then the woman beguiled him, saying to him`: "Tell me," she said, "how you may be killed."
“Red-hot iron spits have to be thrust into my soles and through my shins.”
Source: https://iso.ucc.ie/Aided-cheltchair/Aided-cheltchair-index.html