Top 10 Irish Myths and Legends
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irish myths and legends let's get started ireland's long history is riddled with
ancient mythology and folklore ireland's ancient societies the druids and the celtics believed in the
power of magic and many of these beliefs spread to modern day legends told again and again across the
country stories of warriors with all the knowledge of the world fairies playing pranks on farm owners
and leprechauns hiding their gold at the end of a rainbow all add to the mysterious appeal of ireland
let's get started 10. the
banshee
urban legend the banshee was a woman who carried with her an omen of death sometimes you saw the
banshee as an old woman dressed in rags sometimes you saw her as a young and beautiful girl and
sometimes you saw her as a wash woman wringing out bloody clothing whenever she was seen she let out a
horrible cry and legend has it that this cry brought death to any family that heard it king james the
first of scotland thought he was approached by a banshee shortly after he died at the earl of athol 9.
phukets pukas a certain type of fairy one bent on creating havoc in the mortal world the puka appeared
at night across rural ireland and the seaboard on a good day the pooka would cause destruction on a
farm tearing down fences and disrupting the wild animals on a bad day the puka would stand outside the
farmhouse and call the people outside by name if anyone came out the puka would carry them away the
pukas also loved to mess with the ships pulling away from ireland and were blamed for many shipwrecks
along the rocky coast number 8. changelings as legend has it female fairies often give birth to
deformed children since the fairies prefer visually pleasing babies they would go into the mortal world
and swap with a healthy human baby leaving behind a changeling while the changeling looked like a human
baby it carried none of the same emotional characteristics the changeling was only happy when
misfortune or grief happened in the house the changeling legend has lasted for centuries william
shakespeare talks of a changeling in his play in midsummer's night's dream 300 years later scarlett
ahara believed rhett butler's illegitimate child was a changeling in gone with the wind 7. dagda's harp
in irish mythology the dagda was a high priest who had a large and beautiful harp during a war a rival
state stole agnez's harp and took it to an abandoned castle dagta followed the tribe and called to the
harp the harp came to dagda and he struck the chords the harp let out the music of tears and everyone
in the castle began to cry dagdar struck the chords again and the harp played the music of mirth and all
the warriors began to laugh then dagter struck the chords a final time and the harp let out the music
of sleep everyone but dagged dagda fell into a deep sleep allowing him to escape with his magical harp
unharmed 6. the children of lear the story of the children of lea comes from the irish mythological
cycle leah was the lord of the sea he had a wife and four children when lear's wife died he married his
wife's sister afee afee was jealous of lear's children and wanted to be rid of them one day athe took
the children to a lake while they were swimming she performed a spell on them and turned them into swans
under the spell the children were to remain as swans until they heard the sound of a christian bell
the swan swam from lake to river to stream for years waiting for the sound of that bell but it wasn't
until saint patrick came to ireland that the children could be free of the curse 900 years later 5. st
patrick for most people said patrick is the man who brought a day of good times and green beer to pubs
across the world in reality st patrick wasn't made a saint until centuries after his death and he
wasn't even irish saint patrick was born in britain to a wealthy family during his childhood he was
kidnapped and sold into slavery in ireland during his years in slavery he converted to christianity and
once freed he did spend the rest of his life teaching the irish about the christian religion but he
was soon forgotten after his death it wasn't until many years later that monks began telling the tale of
saint patrick forcing all the snakes out of ireland something he never could have done as there never
were any snakes in ireland 4. the shamrock the three green leaves of the shamrock is more than the
unofficial symbol of ireland and once of the marshmallows in lucky charms the shamrock has held meaning
to most of ireland's historic cultures the druids believed the shamrock was a sacred plant that could
ward off evil the celtics believed the shamrock had mystical properties due to the plant's three
heart-shaped leaves the celtics believed three was a sacred number some christians also believed the
shamrock had special meaning the three leaves representing the holy trinity number 3. finn mccool finn
mccool is a mythological warrior that appears in several
Dullahan irish urban legends one popular story tells of a salmon that knew of
all the world's knowledge finn decided to eat the salmon in order to gain the knowledge as he was
cooking the fish juice squirted out and burned finn's thumb finn stuck his thumb in his mouth to stop
the pain and instantly learned the knowledge the salmon carried from then on anytime finn sucked his
thumb he gained whatever knowledge he was seeking 2. fairies fairies exist in some form in mythology
all over the world but hold a special importance to the irish the fairy society in ireland is thought to
be very much alive and far from peter pan's tinkerbell an irish fairy can take any form she wishes but
will usually choose a human form they are said to be beautiful powerful and hard to resist which is
unfortunate because most fairies in ireland love to bring misfortune and bad luck to the mortals who
come near them 1. leprechauns the leprechaun is likely the most widely known type of fairy living in
ireland leprechauns have been in existence in irish legends since the medieval times traditionally
leprechauns are tall fairies and often appear to humans as an old man much different from the modern
view of a small childlike fairy in a green suit as
Puca urban legend holds leprechauns love to collect gold which they store in a pot and hide at the end of a rainbow if a
human catches a leprechaun the fairy must grant the human three wishes before he can be released so i
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