#beul-aithris

[ioma-dhiadhachd]

Q&A, Faeries & Folklore in Gaelic Culture We Love History Live

[sgribhisg]

Gaelic Comic Project - Calasraid: Àite nan Sgeulachdan - Callander's Landscape

Callander (Calasraid) has a rich Gaelic heritage (dualchas), which can be seen in place-names but also in the stories told by local people. In and around Callander, people still speak of the each-uisge (water horse) living in Loch Venachar, or the tragic death of the famous Irish hero, Diarmad, on the slopes of Ben Gullipen. This project aimed to celebrate the Gaelic heritage of Callander by working with local Primary Schools to retell these legendary Gaelic stories (sgeulachdan) with a new comic (comaig or pàipear-èibhinn)!

[sgribhisg]

We are looking for much needed assistance with the production of our ambitious short film Mara: the seal wife. Mara (Gaelic for the sea) is a magic realism tale inspired by the mysterious Selkie, creatures of Scottish & Irish folklore. It tells the tragic yet hopeful tale of Magnus & Sine, a grief stricken couple struggling to find their way out of the darkness and their respective prisons.

[ioma-dhiadhachd]

We are looking for much needed assistance with the production of our ambitious short film Mara: the seal wife. Mara (Gaelic for the sea) is a magic realism tale inspired by the mysterious Selkie, creatures of Scottish & Irish folklore. It tells the tragic yet hopeful tale of Magnus & Sine, a grief stricken couple struggling to find their way out of the darkness and their respective prisons.

[ioma-dhiadhachd]

Supernatural Safeguarding: Hidden Objects in the Post-Medieval Home

What do a child’s shoe, a cod-liver oil bottle, and a desiccated cat have in common? They’re all objects that have been discovered in unusual locations within buildings. In fact, a vast variety of objects have been found (from pantaloons to chickens), often dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, under floorboards, hearthstones, and thresholds; within walls; above doors and ceilings; up chimney breasts; in thatching; and buried in the garden. People usually find them today when they’re undertaking renovations on their homes, and they’re in such odd places that most of them can’t have wound up there accidentally; they must have been deliberately secreted away by past occupants many years ago.

(via Supernatural Safeguarding: Hidden Objects in the Post-Medieval Home - #FolkloreThursday)

[truagh-mo-thuras]

Fear a phòs Maighdean-Mhara.

Tha àite teann ar Inbhirnis ris an abair ‘ad anns a’ Bheurla “Kessock Ferry” mar a theireadh sibh “Aiseag Cheasag” agus bha duine ‘gabhail a’ cheum sios air a’chladach agus chunnaic e coltas boirionnach ‘na cadal. Agus fhuair e greim oirre, agus du dè  bh’ann ach a’ Mhaighdean-mhara? Agus thug e dhith an cochull, agus dar a bheir ‘ad dhith an cochull, mar a tha ‘chùis air innse, chan eil i na’s fhearr na neach eile ‘sa’ mhuir. ‘S thug e dhachaidh i  agus phòs ‘ad agus chuir e ‘n cochull (fad--)—a’ falach ann an àite diomhaireach ann am bothan, a mach.

Agus ba i daonnan ag iarraidh a’ chochull agus an cochull cha robh e’ toirt dith. Na’ faigheadh i ‘n cochull dheanadh i air a’ mhuir air ais agus ‘s math a bha fios aig’ air sin.

Ach dh’fhàs an gill’ aice ‘n airde – na chnapach mór làidir, agus air dha bhi mach mu’n bhothan gu dé thanaig i air an nathad ach gu’n d’fhuair e ‘n t-slige. Agus thug e ‘n t-slige bha ‘seo a staigh ‘s dar a thug e ‘n t-slige ‘staigh dháithnich is’ dé bh’ann agus chuir i oirre ‘n t-slige bha seo agus rinn i air a’ mhuir.

“Agus mar a bha mi daonnan ag ràdhtainn, na’ faighainn an cochull, cha bhidh an t-àit seo gun iasg, ged a bhiodh e gann an àiteacha eile’s duine sam bith a reachadh a dh’iasgach ann gheibh e iasg uair sam bith ann.”

Agus i’ faotainn a’ chochuill, tharruin i agus thuirt i:

“Cumaidh mi mo bhriathran.”

Agus go’s an latha  ‘n diugh aig Kesseck Ferry gheobh thu ‘m pailteas de dh’iasg ann ged bhiodh e gann an àiteachan eile.

Agus cha d’fhuair an duine forbhair riamh oirre, ach dar a thanaig e dhachaidh bho obair thuig e mar a cha chùis ‘s chaigh e choimhead agus fhuair e [‘n t-slige]...an t-àite falamh agus mar sin tha ‘naigheachd a’ dol: gheobh thu ‘n t-iasg a’sid dar nach eil e ‘n àit’ eile.

[ioma-dhiadhachd]

A Wild Witch Chase - In search of the Scottish Hecate - Nicneven

Scotland, a place where you can’t throw a stone and not hit a piece of land that isn’t associated with some local folk lore, ghost stories or tales of heroism, survival, magic or war. One of these figures I have encountered, quite recently as a significant folklore figure and Deity, is the story of Nicneven. How ever you look at it its a tale of secret lives, curses than span villages and time and is still enchanting people today .....