S e Latha na Caillich a th' ann an-diugh.
[It's the Day of the Hag today.]
25 dhen Mhàrt
[25 March]
#LàNaCaillich #LathaNaCaillich #Cailleach #DayOfTheHag #GaelicPolytheism #Paganism #Pàganach #GaolNaofa #Pagan #Alba #Scotland
Who knows what you'll see on a walk! Certainly necrophilic amplexus was a first for us! For expert knowledge and good advice please see @froglife.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social
#frog #amplexus #Rana #frogspawn #flatworms #Cailleach
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Here is a quick model showcase, featuring a Clurichaun, Cailleach and a Giant model, I created in #Blender. I'm modelling all the creatures I've sketched and shared as a for my Celtic themed RPG.
#clurichaun #cailleach #giant #gamedev #3dmodeling #indiedev
An old woman with glowing white eyes with black dripping eye makeup, long grey hair, dressed in a long loose robe whilst holding a glowing crystal ball in her left hand.
This is my Cailleach pencil sketch of the Celtic Goddess of Winter, who has the power to create storms ⛈️
#pencilsketch #drawing #cailleach #sketch #sketchaday #bestiary
White card with detailed pattern in red and black showing numbers, zodiac and playing card symbols
Card depicting a pattern based on authentic archives of Peggy Dvell (or ‘Devell’) of Hutton le Hole who, with ‘Old Susan, was said to travel to Malton to tell people’s fortunes. This magic book is held at Ryedale Folk Museum.
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#witch #cailleach #magic #history
Sheela na gig female statue drawing in grey tones on white card
Sheela na Gig card adapted from design of 12th century sculpture at Lavey, Cavan (now in Cavan County Museum)
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#sheelanagig #archaeology #archeology #history #skystorians #feminism #goddess #folklore #cailleach
The period of time between February 1st and May 1st is a part of the year where power is in flux between Brigid and the Cailleach. Brigid will prevail - with her sunshine and her blooming hedgerows but when exactly that happens is decided between two goddesses
#Cailleach #britishfolklore #brigid
Out Now: Episode 65 | Dark Goddesses
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We explore the power and purpose of dark goddesses, discussing their roles in transformation, healing, and empowerment.
#witchsky #pagansky #heathensky #darkgoddess #hekate #hecate #babayaga #lilith #themorrigan #cailleach
Ever since finding that connection between #Cailleach and the #Groundhog, I now have a new perspective on the movie #GroundHogsDay Phil, the weatherman, ever a rodent, was cursed by The Cailleach to re-live the day until he could be a decent person to women. (Original script: 10,000 years)
Long before the groundhog, the Cailleach would determine the remaining length of winter ❄️
According to Celtic lore, she ventured out on Imbolc (February 1st) to gather more firewood. If the weather was nice, it meant 6 more weeks of winter...
#pagan #traditions #culture #groundhogsday #cailleach
Happy ##Imbolc Yes! Two days in some traditions.
But what the heck is up with that Groundhog? I found a pretty good break-down of how the fear of "The Crone" turned a rumor into an odd holiday. #WitchSky #Pagan #WitchesOfBluesky
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Solitary rite for Imbolg tonight. Ready to host a #fullmoon zoom for Patreon & #coven. Very sunny day here so I imagine #Cailleach will be able to gather plenty of wood. ♌🌕 w/Sun in ♒& the emerging energy of Neptune moving into ♈. Quite the day for some #magick #witchsky
#pagansky (not my image)
close up of snow drop in clutch of snowdrops, in low light, dark behind, but the front ones have a little weak sunlight on them, and are just beginning to open.
Inclement Weather for Immortal Hags February comes in on a storm, wind shaking the roof to its rotten core, slates chattering. We are spare teeth compacted in its jaw like enchanted sleepers. Trees tapping at our panes with fingerbones loaned from the dead, infecting our fractured dreams. Everything screaming. All gale, no owl. No one could rest through a night like this. The day rises up like a flood, inevitable. My ancestors shudder in my skin. We go out not because the day is better, but because the nights are worse. We go out to move our blood. We meet three deer on the common. We see a giant raven carrying sticks in their beak. At the top of our tiny world, a weak sun blinks through cloud. The lightning rod of the white birch I tied a red thread round on this same day in an antique era watching suspiciously with its many eyes. The thread – a spell against loss, a plea for mercy from the perilous realm – frays into a sleety wind. Next year it will vanish entirely. I won’t notice for months. It’s not raining or snowing. It’s not fine either. The lake slate grey like a roof or wall that would shut any mortal out. Is it winter enough for an end to winter? We declare inclement weather for immortal hags. Aged as we have, a thousand years in the turbulent dark, my crone shadow on top of me now. We have one foot in this place and one in another and something is dragging at both of our hands. I want to go home. I want to sleep through. I want the cave and the torpor. I want to take all these layers off and lie skin bared to a parallel sky. Do immortal hags feel their feelings? I’m feeling all mine. We have left an offering of our sadness, our small despairs poor fuel for her fire.
An imbolc poem from #EmergencyDream. I wish you inclement weather for immortal hags today. I wish you fuel enough for your fire but less need for it. I wish you an early and thorough thaw. Melted ice. A new season of hope blooming. Spring spring spring spring spring. #Imbolc #BrigidsDay #Cailleach
Christian David, Beinn na Caillich from Beinn na Cro, CC BY-SA 4.0
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Beinn na Caillich on the #IsleOfSkye is one of the #Cailleach haunts, as are other mountains prominent in the landscape, and from which fierce storms of sleet and rain descend, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the lands below.`
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Christian David, Beinn na Caillich from Beinn na Cro, CC BY-SA 4.0
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `Beinn na Caillich on the #IsleOfSkye is one of the #Cailleach haunts, as are other mountains prominent in the landscape, and from which fierce storms of sleet and rain descend, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the lands below.` […]
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Winter woodland, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The #Cailleach is also known as the Hag of Storms. She lays claim to the creatures of the wild and cold places, the red deer and the wolf, the leaping salmon and the springing goat, warding them and watching over them.
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Winter woodland, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: `The #Cailleach is also known as the Hag of Storms. She lays claim to the creatures of the wild and cold places, the red deer and the wolf, the leaping salmon and the springing goat, warding them and watching over them. She it was who […]
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Cailleach from Wonder Tales From Scottish Myth & Legend; at the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: The #Cailleach aka Hag of Storms „lived (and rumour has it, lives still!) in the Beara just in the south of Ireland, and a wandering friar came to her house, for he had heard tell of a woman of great age, so old that even she herself had lost count of the years.
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Cailleach from Wonder Tales From Scottish Myth & Legend; at the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API
#MythologyMonday #Celtic: The #Cailleach aka Hag of Storms „lived (and rumour has it, lives still!) in the Beara just in the south of Ireland, and a wandering friar came to her house, for he had heard tell of a woman of great age, so old that even she herself […]
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when despite her efforts to fight against spring, the goddess Brìghde takes over and rules summer through to the next Samhain.
This print is part of my ongoing series of slightly sinister winter and yuletide folklore.
#linocut #printmaking #folklore #folktale #Cailleach #Beira #WinterSolstice
Wishing everyone a blessed and happy Winter solstice.
#WinterSolstice #goddess #Cailleach #Yuletide #paganlife
The #Cailleach (or Beira), the fierce Gaelic hag of winter in Scottish folklore, shapes mountains, herds deer, and rules the cold months with her icy staff——symbolically banished by burning the "Cailleach Nollich" Yule log on Christmas Eve. #ScottishFolklore
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Drawing of older woman in cloak with raven flying
#darkmoon and #solstice upon us: time of the #cailleach
Illustration by John Duncan in Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend (1917)
Cailleach from Dunailline Files, licenced under CC BY-SA-NC
#LegendaryWednesday #Celtic: „It is told that Beira (also known as the #Cailleach) was an old hag described to have long, frosty white hair, dull dark blue skin and only one eye, is the Goddess of Winter. Beira, along with her eight sister hags, ushers […]
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `At #Samhain, the #Cailleach brings the cloak of winter, sending all to sleep. While the land around us seems to die off in winter, there is so much activity going on beneath our feet preparing for the great renewal of spring.` […]
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#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `At #Samhain, the #Cailleach brings the cloak of winter, sending all to sleep. While the land around us seems to die off in winter, there is so much activity going on beneath our feet preparing for the great renewal of spring.`
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Walter Baxter, The Corryvreckan Whirlpool - Coire Bhreacain (whirlpool or cauldron of the plaid), the washtub of the Cailleach - geograph-2404815-by-Walter-Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `On the west coast of Scotland, the #Cailleach ushers in winter by washing her great plaid (Gaelic: féileadh mòr) in the Gulf of Corryvreckan (Gaelic: Coire Bhreacain - 'whirlpool/cauldron of the plaid').
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Walter Baxter, The Corryvreckan Whirlpool - Coire Bhreacain (whirlpool or cauldron of the plaid), the washtub of the Cailleach - geograph-2404815-by-Walter-Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `On the west coast of Scotland, the #Cailleach ushers in winter by washing her great plaid (Gaelic: féileadh mòr) in the Gulf of Corryvreckan (Gaelic: Coire Bhreacain - 'whirlpool/cauldron of the plaid'). This process is said to take […]
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Cailleach from Wonder Tales From Scottish Myth & Legend; at the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API
#FairyTaleTuesday #Celtic: `In Ireland and Scotland the legends of the #Cailleach have endured. She is interpreted not just as the creator of landscape but also as controller of winter.`
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