Latest / KnotWork Myth & Storytelling
Life and Death on the Farm Atop the Hill: A Story of an Irish Cailleach | S.2 Ep.8
Our Story
There’s a long, strange tradition in Irish mythology and folklore in which a powerful man tries to steal a valuable cow from an old woman (cailleach). Maybe it’s not so strange… It’s just one more example of how independent older women are considered a threat to the status quo.
Marisa Goudy tells the story of Mona, the Cailleach who lived upon a hill that bore her name (Cnoc na Móna/Knocknamona). The original tale, found in a footnote in an 1860 publication of the Ossianic Society, a translation of a medieval Irish manuscript called the Imtheacht na Tromdhaimhe, includes few…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.