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Morgan Daimler

@morgandaimler.bsky.social

Independent folklorist, author of nonfiction about irish myth & fairies and fiction (UF & HF), amateur translator of old/middle Irish, general trouble maker

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Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · yesterday

"You said: The Shining Ones. You said: The Fair Folk. And you spat, and touched iron. But generations later, you forgot about the spitting and the iron, and you forgot why you used those names for them, and you remembered only that they were beautiful" — Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · last wk.

Friendly reminder that Lúnasa isn't generally associated with weddings & the idea of it being Lugh's wedding is modern. There's no mythology or older folklore supporting this idea. The word lughnasadh does not mean wedding of Lugh. Nasadh means funeral games or assembly, later just games or assembly

Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm excited to say that the first Element in this series is now scheduled for publication in September - an Element about the functions of folklore by none other than the inimitable Jeremy Harte: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The front cover of a Cambridge University Press Element by Jeremy Harte, entitled 'What Did Folklore Do?'
Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm delighted to announce that I've just been appointed by @cambridgeup.bsky.social to edit a brand new and exciting Elements series, 'Elements in Folklore' (with Dr Tabitha Stanmore), which will aim to publish the latest research in folklore that's 20-30k words long! #folklore 📚

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · last mo.

review of The Wild Hunt: 'what we get here - from the Nordic Odin to the Welsh Gwynn ap Nudd, and inclusive of a whole host of other versions in-between - is a fascinatingly well-researched must-read for all those with an interest in the subject matter.' annecarlini.com/ex_books.php...

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Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's Irish myth/folklore fun fact: Although most well known today as a king of the sidhe in Galway, Finnbheara is also one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The Altram Da Tige Medar tells us that he is the youngest son of the Dagda.

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Sed dicunt non per diabolum, sed pulchrum populum, nec a diablo didicimus nec ei credimus sed pulchro populo." - Summa Predicantium, 1586 "It is not the work of the Devil [what we do] but of the Fair Folk, for we haven't learnt it from the Devil, nor do we believe in him, but from the Fair Folk."

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Irish myth fun fact Although widely assumed to be a sun god today Lugh wasn't associated with the sun until the Celtic Revival period, when the poets & artists of the day seized on a description of Lugh coming over a hill "like the sun rising in the west" in the Oidheadh Chlainne Tuireann.

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the 'sit out under a tree on Bealtaine & the fairy queen might take you away' thing seems to originate with a witchvox article from 2000 There is no precedent in older or culture specific folklore to support this This is an example of modern social media based folklore & should be understood as such

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"...May Eve & May Day were supposed to be times of greater than usual activity among supernatural beings. Every lios in Ireland was said to be opened that night, & their inhabitants moved abroad in great numbers, often changing residence at that time." - Nósanna agua Piseoga na nGael

Morgan Daimler@morgandaimler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

random tip: hagstones (aka holey stones, ie a stone with a natural hole through it) protect against malefic magic and fairies. Among other uses they were traditionally hung in barns to keep fairies from harassing the horses and elf-locking their manes at night.