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Elizabeth Magill (Irish, b. 1959), Site with Blue Tree, 1998. Oil on canvas, 152 x 183 cm.

“Druid priest offering human sacrifice in the Sacred Grotto” illustration from book “History of the world from the creation of man to the present day”, 1894 ~ I hope you know that patriarchal druids came to the celtic world from Asia Minor/Middle East? Well… If not, check R. Graves “The Greek Myths”, cuz I can assure you they had nothing to do with ancient celtic beliefs and traditions. Their reign brought doom of power of women priestesses on Islands, reducing the role of the Goddess to her mortal lover, which arose since then as a god.

eibhlincatha

“The name of these twin hills in Co. Kerry was Da Chich Anann, ‘The Paps of Anu’, and they are still referred to in English as 'The Paps’. The goddess Anu was known as the mother of the gods, and under the former title she was identified especially with the province of Munster, with its land and its fertility.”

–Celtic Mythology, Proinsias Mac Cana

witch-lore-craft

“In the living folk-lore in Celtic countries, as we found among the Irish peasantry, the crossing of a bridge or stream of water when pursued by fairies or phantoms is a guarantee of protection. There is always the mystic water between the realm of the living and the realm of subjectivity.”

-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)