#BookologyThursday: `A young man recounts this tale from the 1930s:
„In the townland of Geevagh there lived a man named Thomas Layden. One night when he was coming home from gamboling he took a short cut through the fields. By doing this he had to go through a field of "Buachalans".
No sooner had he entered the field than he saw hundreds of fairies. They all spoke to him and said "Céad míle fáilte Romhat." (A hundred thousand welcomes) Then each pulled a "Buachalan" in turn and instantly the plants were changed into white horses. They told Tomas to do the same and so he did.
They ordered him to follow them and not to speak a word. He did as they told him until he came to "Carraig ltí Ghealaigh," a huge rock near Kilronan. Here he swore on oath that he would be killed, and as he broke the fairies command, the horse disappeared and he fell to the ground. There he was found the next morning by a passer-by“.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-buachalan-buidhe#_blank

#BookologyThursday #NowReading 'Raising Hare' by Chloe Dalton, which quotes a 1575 poem by George Gascoigne written from the point of view of a hare to a human hunter by Rob Barnes

#BookologyThursday: `Willows are really useful friends to insects and birds, their catkins being among the first to appear as early as February, offering early sustenenace to pollinators.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac

#BookologyThursday: `When walking home from school the children of Ireland who might grow hungry would take a few of the new leaves of the quickthorn appearing in spring, before the flowers appeared, calling them “bread and cheese”.
This „Aithig fedo“ (Commoner of the Wood) from Brehon law is also called hawthorn, the gentle bush, the lone thorn, the May tree, the hedgethorn, the Beltaine tree, the Gentry tree, the May blossom, the whitethorn.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-sceach-geal

"Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of El-Ahrairah’s adventures are those of Brer Rabbit. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies."
― Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

#BookologyThursday: `Early to blossom, blackthorn trees have clouds of snow-white flowers in early spring. Their tiny five-petalled flowers are unusual in that they open very early in spring, late February to March, before the leaves, which is backwards for most flowering behaviour. The result is a very striking picture of white starry flowers starkly framed by bare black bark.
Greatly admired though these flowers are, it is considered bad luck to bring these first flowers of spring indoors—and certainly never to church. The blackthorn was thought to have made up the crown of thorns put on Jesus’s head when he was crucified in Golgotha. One problem with this association is blackthorn trees aren’t exactly prolific in the middle eastern desert.` #Celtic
Source: https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/08/06/blackthorn-dark-mother-of-the-woods-crone-of-the-triple-goddess-witch-wood/

#introduction: I've been tooting as @NeuKelte@todon.eu since #Imbolc 2022 before I moved here.
I'm interested in all things #Celtic, but particularly the #IronAge and the myths of the Gaels and the Welsh.
I regularly post about my Nua-#CelticSoulJourneys to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and the Isle of Man.
You'll find my toots under the following hashtags: #MythologyMonday, #FairyTaleTuesday, #LegendaryWednesday, #WyrdWednesday, #BookologyThursday, #FindsFriday, #FolkloreSunday

We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries

"That was when I saw the Pendulum. The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"

"He could not call [outer space] 'dead'; he felt life pouring into him from it every moment.... He had thought it barren: he now saw that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes."
-C. S. Lewis, "Out of the Silent Planet"
#BookologyThursday #fantasy #scifi #CSLewis #literature

"Which is it today," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?"

[Sherlock Holmes] raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.

"It is cocaine," he said. "A 7% solution. Would you care to try it?"

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sign of Four"
#BookologyThursday #literature #mystery #SherlockHolmes