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According to local legend the stones represent the Cailleach, her husband the Bodach, and their children and the site may represent the only surviving shrine of its kind in Great Britain. The local legend suggests that the Cailleach and her family were given shelter in the glen by the locals and
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is also the day the Cailleach gathers her firewood for the rest of the winter. Legend has it that if she intends to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on 1 February is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood to keep herself warm in the coming
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In Scotland, the Cailleachan (lit. 'old women') are also known as the Storm Hags, and seen as personifications of the elemental powers of nature, especially in a destructive aspect. They are said to be particularly active in raising the windstorms of spring, during the period known as
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months. As a result, people are generally relieved if LĂ  FhĂšill BrĂŹghde is a day of foul weather, as it means the Cailleach is asleep, will soon run out of firewood, and therefore winter is almost over. On the Isle of Man, where She is known as
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on Bealltainn and reverting to humanoid form on Samhainn in time to rule over the winter months. Depending on local climate, the transfer of power between the winter goddess and the summer goddess is celebrated any time between
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states, "she had fifty foster-children in Beare. She had seven periods of youth one after another, so that every man who had lived with her came to die of old age, and her grandsons and great-grandsons were tribes and races."
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while they stayed there the glen was always fertile and prosperous. When they left they gave the stones to the locals with the promise that as long as the stones were put out to look over the glen at
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features a passage tomb known locally as the 'Calliagh Beara's House'. There is also a lake, where the Calliagh is said to have played a trick on the mythical warrior,
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Donncha Ó hAodha (1989). "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare". In Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach and Kim McCone (ed.).
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The Witch Figure: Folklore Essays by a Group of Scholars in England Honoring the 75th Birthday of Katharine M. Briggs
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in Ireland. Other connections to the region include her above-mentioned strong ties with the fierce whirlpool in the
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Hull, Eleanor (30 September 1927). "Legends and traditions of the Cailleach Bheara or Old Woman (Hag) of Beare".
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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature
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In Ireland, the Cailleach is associated with craggy, prominent mountains and outcroppings, such as Hag's Head (
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Jeffares, Alexander Norman. A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, 1968, Stanford University Press
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in Scottish Gaelic. Gearóid Ó Crualaoich believes this comes from a word meaning 'sharp, shrill, inimical' –
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and is, according to folklore, the Cailleach's grave and former dwelling where she lived with her husband,
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sunrise shine down the passageway and illuminate an inner chamber filled with megalithic stone carvings.
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A taste of the unexpected: subverting mentalités through the motifs and settings of Irish passage tombs
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refers to the Sligo Cailleach as the 'Clooth na Bare'. In County Sligo she is also called the
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The Silver Bough, Vol.2: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Candlemas to Harvest Home
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said to resemble the Cailleach. In mythology she is said to have leapt across the bay from
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then the glen would continue to be fertile. This ritual is still carried out to this day.
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of the year marked the end of her reign as Queen of Winter, at which time she visited the
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The Cailleach displays several traits befitting the personification of winter: she herds
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Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic studies in Honour of Professor James Carney
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theatre programme, Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh, November 2023, p. 11
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Illustration by John Duncan in Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend (1917)
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In Scotland and Ireland, the first farmer to finish the grain harvest made a
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On the west coast of Scotland, the Cailleach ushers in winter by washing her
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Meehan, Padraig. Listoghil, A Seasonal Alignment, 2014, Gungho Publications,
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Krappe, A. H. (1936). "La Cailleach Bheara. Notes de mythologie Gaélique".
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Displaying the expected /p/ > /c/ change of early Latin loans in Irish.
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Hags, Queens and Wise Women: Supernatural Females of the Irish Otherworld
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The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit
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Tigh nam Bodach stones of Glen Cailliche get makeover from dyking expert
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Ross, Anne (1973, reprint 2004) "The divine hag of the pagan Celts", in
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in the Glen, known as either Tigh nan Cailleach (Scottish Gaelic for
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in Manx. The word is found as a component in terms like the Gaelic
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in Perthshire with a stream named Allt Cailliche which runs into
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and put back into the shelter and made secure for the winter at
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was said to be her "mountain throne". The two mountains on the
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Gaelic Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: A Bilingual Anthology
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and, after drinking its magic water, grew younger day by day.
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in the form of a gigantic bird, carrying sticks in her beak.
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and other megalithic features at Slieve na Calliagh, Ireland
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The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-Woman Healer
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The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-woman Healer
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with white hair, dark blue skin, and rust-colored teeth.
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She is also associated with other Scottish mountains.
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photos and videos taken on site for six years running
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says that the Cailleach's name is Digdi or Digde. In
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Oran eadar am BĂ rd agus Cailleach-mhilleadh-nan-dĂ n
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In later tales she is known as the 864:The Cailleach is prominent in the landscape of 1872: 1870: 3557: 3119: 2315: 549:, the Cailleach is said to have been seen on 8: 1796:, 1st edition 1988, John Donald Publishers, 1772: 1770: 1411: 1409: 1407: 958:) or Tigh nam Bodach, (Scottish Gaelic for 3426: 3417: 3275: 1854: 1852: 1814:National Record of the Historic Environment 672:, meaning 'the hag's bed') is located near 454: 445: 436: 430: 418: 412: 360: 297: 288: 256: 3564: 3550: 3542: 3126: 3112: 3104: 2735: 2349: 2322: 2308: 2300: 1456: 1454: 1452: 1450: 1448: 1446: 1444: 1437:. University of Chicago Press. p. 40. 1421:Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend 1288:Etymological Dictionary Of Scottish-Gaelic 1200:, 'Hag's Head', the most southerly of the 1180: 1178: 625:Some scholars believe the Old Irish poem " 390: 347: 296:The Cailleach is often referred to as the 34: 1929:Association for Scottish Literary Studies 1863:. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. p. 114. 1570:. 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Index

Print of old woman holding a hammer with a background of mountains
The Hag of Beara
Labbacallee wedge tomb
Glas Gaibhnenn
The Hag of Beara
Mug Ruith
Gaelic
Irish
Scottish
Manx
[ˈkalÌ ÊČəx,kəˈlÌ ÊČax]
[ˈkʰaʎəx]
hag
creation
weather
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
folkloric
Ireland
Scotland
Isle of Man
The Hag of Beara

Cliffs of Moher
County Clare
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Old Irish
Latin
Slieve Cuilinn

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