The most magical of creatures, the honey #bee🥰
"...the scientists discovered that the dance floor is more dynamic than previously thought. It drifts across the honeycomb depending on the time of year, hive size & time of day. In the smaller hives, the dance floor..."
#spéirghorm #HoneyBee #Gobnait
Tobar Gobnait (Saint Gobnait’s Well), Dún Chaoin, Ciarraí. A holy well enclosed in a circle of stones on a hillside above the cliffs, looking west on the Atlantic Ocean and the Blasket Islands. The afternoon sun is low in the sky over An Blascaod Mór (Great Blasket Island), but much higher than it was at the same time on Christmas Day, there being a grand stretch in the evening now. There are clouds on the horizon (not the menacing type though), with a clear blue sky above them.
Where I go to get my head and my heart right, and to make prayers for healing and biodiversity. #Gobnait #HolyWells
“The story current in the neighborhood is that a poor widow, who was unable to pay her rent, had her sole wealth, a few cows, whose milk she sold, seized by bailiffs, and in her distress, invoked assistance of St Gobnait, whose church she was passing at the moment, while police and bailiffs drove her cows before them. Even as she prayed, a tall woman appeared, holding a beehive in her hand and clad in a brown cloak. Looking with compassion at the tearful face of her supplicant, St. Gobnait for it was she, raised the hive in the air, whereupon out flew a swarm of bees that were immediately transformed into a troup of armed soldiers. At a sign from the saint, they fell upon the bailiffs and police who were driving the cows away, but who, the moment themselves at the mercy of the soldiers began to scream and howl and scattered in all directions. They were far too eager to save their lives to give a thought to the poor woman's cows, which she at once took possession of. She would have fallen on her knees at the feet of St. Gobnait, but that the vision vanished as suddenly as it had come.”
It's the 11th of February, which means it's Saint Gobnait's Day!
St. Gobnait is a 6th century Irish saint, born in co. Clare, and the saint of bees and ironworking.
Please enjoy my favourite narrative of her from the National Folklore Collection. #Gobnait #SpéirGorm #folklore
The feast day of St. Gobnait, the Gaeltacht's saint and lover of bees 🐝 , takes place on 11th February! #Gaeilge #Gobnait #Gaeltacht
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