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The Cailleach: The Complete Legend of the Ancient Winter Goddess | Gaelic Folklore for Sleep
The Cailleach: The Complete Legend of the Ancient Winter Goddess | Gaelic Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the Cailleach, made for falling asleep to.
She is older than almost anything else in these islands. Not a goddess in a temple with a priesthood — a presence in the landscape, still attached to specific hills and lochs and stretches of coast in Scotland and Ireland, and in some places still spoken about by people who live there.
The stories say she made the country. She carried stone in her apron and dropped it, and that's a mountain. She struck the ground with a hammer and…
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