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Fúamnach, or
Fuamnach, is Midir's
first wife and a
witch of the
Tuatha Dé
Danann in the
medieval Irish text
Tochmarc Étaíne ("The
Wooing of Étaín"). The...
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marries Étaín, Midir's
rejected first wife
Fúamnach becomes jealous and
casts a
series of
spells on her.
First Fúamnach turns Étaín into a pool of water, then...
- and silver.
Midir takes Étaín as his wife. However, Midir's
first wife,
Fúamnach, out of jealousy,
turns her into a pool of water, out of which, as it evaporates...
- Midir's wife
Fuamnach turns Étaín into a
beautiful fly.
Returning Étaín into her
human form at night,
Aengus makes her his
lover until Fuamnach discovers...
- the
Fomorian leader Balor and the
mother of Lugh Fand
Finnabair Flidais Fuamnach Gráinne
Grian Lí Ban Loígde -
attested as
Logiddea in
Archaic Irish and...
- swan and
cursed by her
stepmother Flidais -
goddess of
cattle and
milking Fuamnach -
witch of the
Tuatha Dé
Danann Iuchar - son of
Tuireann and
murderer of...
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husband of
Fúamnach but
falls in love with Étaín, and
receives the help of his foster-son
Aengus (also Oengus) to make her his new bride.
Fuamnach's vengeance...
- of Lir, into
swans to be rid of them. Likewise, in the
Tochmarc Étaíne,
Fuamnach jealously turns Étaín into a butterfly. The most
dramatic example of shapeshifting...
- away by Midir's
jealous first wife
Fuamnach. In her
insect form she
becomes the
companion of Aengus,
until Fuamnach once
again drives her away, and she...
- god, Midir. As
punishment for her
jealousy towards Midir's
first wife
Fuamnach, she had been
reborn as a human. High King
Eochaid having heard of Étaín's...
