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"A compendium of witches"

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montycrusto said:
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I don’t know what they’re doing, but it’s intensely suspicious! :thinking:
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'Unholy Trinity' by a Vancouver-based art photographer, Natalie Shau.
Not that that gives us much clue who's who or what they're a-doing.
Maybe something to do with the Fates?
 
I heard this legend some years ago while on holiday in Ireland. It deals with the origin of the famous Blarney stone. Clíodhna was a banshee queen and the goddess of love and beauty. Some monks called her a witch, to most others she was a goddess.

Legends about Blarney​


While building his castle in Cork, Cormac McCarthy became involved in legal difficulties and appealed to Clíodhna for her help. In a dream she instructed him to kiss the first stone he found the following morning, and if he did so his problems would be resolved.

McCarthy did as instructed and when he argued his cause in the courts found that he was possessed of such eloquence and convincing language that he easily won his case. He honored Clíodhna by having the stone he had kissed set into a wall, where today it is visited and kissed by countless thousands of visitors from all parts of this world.

The legend of Blarney was enhanced even more when Queen Elizabeth I found that she could not successfully persuade Cormac McCarthy to surrender his castle to her. Such was his delaying tactics and now superior negotiating skills and turn of phrase that the frustrated Monarch of England described his communications as 'Blarney, as what he says he does not mean'.

And so it is that Clíodhna is well remembered in Ireland. Her Palace was near Mallow in Cork at a place that is still called 'Carrig-Cleena', meaning 'Cliodhna's rock'.

And every time a massive thunderous wave breaks on the seashore her memory rises from the history of Ireland, echoing from the mythic era that, although now at an end, is never forgotten.

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Pictures of Clíodhna

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The witch stone where Clíodhna is imprisoned as long as there is daylight

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The wich's kitchen

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Heineudo said:
I heard this legend some years ago while on holiday in Ireland. It deals with the origin of the famous Blarney stone. Clíodhna was a banshee queen and the goddess of love and beauty. Some monks called her a witch, to most others she was a goddess.

Legends about Blarney​


While building his castle in Cork, Cormac McCarthy became involved in legal difficulties and appealed to Clíodhna for her help. In a dream she instructed him to kiss the first stone he found the following morning, and if he did so his problems would be resolved.

McCarthy did as instructed and when he argued his cause in the courts found that he was possessed of such eloquence and convincing language that he easily won his case. He honored Clíodhna by having the stone he had kissed set into a wall, where today it is visited and kissed by countless thousands of visitors from all parts of this world.

The legend of Blarney was enhanced even more when Queen Elizabeth I found that she could not successfully persuade Cormac McCarthy to surrender his castle to her. Such was his delaying tactics and now superior negotiating skills and turn of phrase that the frustrated Monarch of England described his communications as 'Blarney, as what he says he does not mean'.

And so it is that Clíodhna is well remembered in Ireland. Her Palace was near Mallow in Cork at a place that is still called 'Carrig-Cleena', meaning 'Cliodhna's rock'.

And every time a massive thunderous wave breaks on the seashore her memory rises from the history of Ireland, echoing from the mythic era that, although now at an end, is never forgotten.

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Pictures of Clíodhna

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The witch stone where Clíodhna is imprisoned as long as there is daylight

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The wich's kitchen

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I've been there, kissed the stone - it works! :p
 
Barbaria1 said:
I’ve been there too, leaned over backwards to kiss the stone …. Great expectations … but nothing happened. I must have done something wrong.
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Perhaps you were complaining at having to lean over backwards, and have never stopped since? :p
 
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