The feinid lives on the margin of society, in forest and wilderness where the tribal hero adventures only on brief expeditions, the domain of the Tuatha, of the people of the Side, the Celtic spirits of the wilderness. He is in constant contact with those mysterious powers which the man who dwells within the tribe, upon the tribal land and close to the hearth, encounters only rarely, in the chaos of Samain-eve or by favour of an initiation from the Otherworld.
Celtic Gods and Heroes, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt













