People have always tried to understand the strange moods of winter. It is cold, unpredictable, loud, and sometimes very magical. In old Scotland and Ireland, people believed that winter arrived ...

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The legends of the winter goddess and the locations and ancient Irish folklore, including Saint Brigid, the goddess of summer, are linked to her. The Cailleach, or the hag, has been feared and revered ...

The Cailleach is one of the pervasive characters of Scottish folklore. The Cailleach (in Gaelic) or Carlin (in Scots) is a mythical old woman associated with the creation of the natural landscape and ...

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THE sight of the dark, conspicuous figure of a cormorant, perched on a rock in Lower Lough Erne with its wings outstretched, seemed the perfect symbol for November’s bare and bleak countenance. In the ...

A walk to a remote pre-Christian shrine leaves our writer reflecting on the power of a mythical Highland woman – and how she is the perfect role model for our times In a remote Highland glen, ...

Patterson (Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch), a practitioner of witchcraft, gathers tales of a Celtic goddess known as the Cailleach in this unsatisfying volume. Originally linked with creation, the ...

"The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing... every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again." This film is an interpretation of ...