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- In Gaelic (Irish, Scottish and Manx) myth, the Cailleach (Irish: [ˈkal̠ʲəx, kəˈl̠ʲax], Scottish Gaelic: [ˈkʰaʎəx]) is a divine hag and ancestor, ****ociated...
- known as The White Nun of Beara, The Cailleach or The Old Woman of Dingle) is a mythic Irish Goddess: a Cailleach, or divine hag, crone, or creator deity;...
- Nunton (Scottish Gaelic: Baile nan Cailleach) is a settlement on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Nunton is within the parish of South Uist...
- Slieve Gullion appears in Irish mythology, where it is ****ociated with the Cailleach and the heroes Fionn mac ****haill and Cú Chulainn. It dominates the countryside...
- 25 other banshees who would always be at her attendance. Baobhan Sith Cailleach Caoineag Clíodhna Devil Bird La Llorona Klagmuhme Madam Koi Koi Psychopomp...
- The goddess in question usually is identified as Celtic, the hag-like Cailleach figure of Irish and Scottish mythology. Margaret Murray proposed this...
- the beithir and the mythological hag known as the Cailleach Bheur. In a story from Argyll the Cailleach was slain by a hunter who hacked her to pieces,...
- Stranger in 2010. In 2011, she appeared in the BBC1 series Merlin, as the Cailleach, the gatekeeper to the spirit world. Also in 2011 she appeared in the...
- giving advice or by giving gifts. In Irish and Scottish mythology, the cailleach is a hag goddess concerned with creation, harvest, the weather, and sovereignty...
- dangerous dive in Britain". In Scottish mythology the hag goddess of winter, Cailleach Bheur, uses the gulf to wash her great plaid, and this ushers in the turn...