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	Cailleach
		Later, the Cailleach took the name of Nicneven as the "Bone Mother" and was said to be seen flying through the air followed by a league of demons at Samhain.
		In the folklore of Ireland and Scotland, the term cailleach was used to denote the last sheaf of the harvest season.
		The Cailleach Bheur of the Scottish Highlands, is a blue-faced hag who personified winter, is one of the clearest cases of the supernatural creature who was once a primitive goddess, possibly among the ancient Fomorians before the Celts.
	www.blueroebuck.com /cailleach_bera.htm (2042 words)

	Cailleach - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Irish and Scottish mythology, Cailleach was the "Mother of All".
		In art, she was depicted as a wizened crone with bear teeth and a boar's tusks.
		In Scotland, she is Cailleach Bheur, The Blue Hag of Winter, an Underworld goddess and a faery spirit.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cailleach (170 words)

	The Cailleach
		When the Cailleach is done the plaid is white and the Land is covered with snow.
		Another aspect of the Cailleach is as protector and steward of wild animals, particularly deer and wolves.
		The Cailleach was said to speak to hunters telling them where the deer were grazing, and how many they were to kill and when.
	www.celtictale.com /our_gods/cailleach.htm (427 words)

	House Shadow Drake - Cailleach Bheara
		The Cailleach was said to possess the ability to change from an old ugly hag into a beautiful young maiden.
		Later, the Cailleach took the name of Nicneven as the "Bone Mother" and was said to be seen flying through the air followed by a league of demons at Samhain.
		In the folklore of Ireland and Scotland, the term cailleach was used to denote the last sheaf of the harvest season.
	www.shadowdrake.com /cailleach.html (1584 words)

	Encyclopedia of the Celts : Cabal - Cynon
		She is almost identical with the Cailleach Bheur of the Highlands except that she is not so closely connected with winter nor with the wild beasts.
		The fountain overflowed, its waters rushed down the mountain side, the roar of the flood as it broke open an outlet through the Pass of Brander awoke the Cailleach, but her efforts to stem the torrent were fruitless; it flowed into the plain, where man and beast were drowned in the flood.
		The Cailleach was filled with such horror over the result of her neglect of duty that she turned into stone.
	www.celticgrounds.com /chapters/encyclopedia/c.html (19428 words)

	Celtic Goddess Cailleach Beara
		The Cailleach Beara is one of the oldest living mythological beings associated with Ireland.
		This is similar to the Mórrigan who appeared to the hero Diarmuid O Duibne as a hag who asked him to carry her over the river, he complies and is rewarded by her.
		In Scotland the Cailleach Bheur serves a similar purpose as the personification of Winter she has a blue face, and is born old at Samhain (Nov 1st) but grows ever younger over time until she is a beautiful maiden at Bealtaine (May 1st).
	www.shee-eire.com /Magic&Mythology/Gods&Goddess/Celtic/Goddess/Cailleach-Beara/Page1.htm (392 words)

	The Cailleach - Caer Clud: Articles
		Cailleach was “one who is wearing a veil.” During the last century, some used it for witch.
		The Cailleach escapes his fatal blow by becoming part of the landscape, turning into a rock or boulder (there’s a Cailleach Mountain in the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye, for example — one of her haunts).
		The Cailleach is very fond of animals, which leads on to the last aspect, that of the supernatural guardian.
	www.caerclud.vscotland.org.uk /articles/cailleach.html (1530 words)

	Cailleach Bheur
		Lightning Lift -- Cailleach raises her hands into the air and summons lightning to come forth from the ground underneath her opponent, lifting them high into the air for a quick follow through.
		Talon -- Cailleach turns one of her hands into a lion's claw and slashes at her opponent in a slapping type motion.
		Cailleach is working hard to become an active goddess in the realm, something that has quickly made her one of the most trusted goddesses in the realm.
	members.fortunecity.com /nijia2/bios/01/cailleach_bheur.htm (402 words)

	Black Annis - leicester legend or Widespread Myths
		She is associated with Cailleach Bheur (Ireland's Cailleach Beare) and is seen as the winter face of the goddess.
		Cailleach Bheur had one eye in a visage of mackerel blue and her teeth were red.
		Cailleach Bheur was also the keeper of animals and is seen as their guardian spirit.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/blackann.htm (3756 words)

	The Cailleach, Celtic Crone-goddess of the Land in Winter--Celtic gods and goddesses celtic triple goddess pagan gods ...
		The Cailleach is a widespread form of Celtic hag-goddess tied to the land and the weather who has many variants in the British Isles.
		The Cailleach Uragaig, of the Isle of Colonsay in Scotland, is also a winter spirit who holds a young woman captive, away from her lover.
		The Cailleach Bheur ("genteel old lady") of Scotland is a blue-faced hag of winter, who ages in reverse--from old and ugly (symbolizing winter) to young and lovely (spring).
	www.thaliatook.com /AMGG/cailleach.html (358 words)

	Cailleach
		When an unusually heavy storm threatened, people told each other: ‘The Cailleach is going to tramp her blankets tonight”, for at the end of summer she washed her cloak in Corrievreckan, the whirlpool off the west coast, and when she pulled it up, the hills were white with snow.
		In early spring, she could not bear the grass and sun, and would ßy into a temper, throwing down her wand beneath a holly tree, before disappearing in a whirling cloud of angry passion, “…….and that is why no grass grows under holly trees”.
		At the first glimmer of dawn, she drinks the water that bubbles in a crevice of a rock, and is transformed into Bride, the fair maid whose white wand turns the bare earth green again.
	www.druidry.org /obod/deities/cailleach.html (2096 words)

	Goddess - Cailleach
		The Cailleach (KAL-y-ach) is the Ancient Earth herself.
		It is clear that the Cailleach is one with the land, clothed in snow in winter, with brushwood growing on her body.
		The Cailleach, fierce though she may be, lives in all of us.
	www.firetree.net /wheel/Brighid/cailleach.html (605 words)

	Cailleach
		Cailleach is referred to as the "Mother of All" in parts of Scotland.
		Also known as Scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a wild bear and boar's tusks.
		Article "Cailleach" created on 06 July 1997; last modified on 16 January 2004 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cailleach.html (166 words)

	Cailleach Invocation - ADF Neopagan Druidism
		As the Earth falls into sleep the Hag of Baere is wielding her scythe and cutting the green corn down, to sow it again in the later winter's night.
		She is the Cailleach, the wise and cunning old woman, who passed into seven periods of youth while her husbands passed away behind her, grandmother to peoples and races of the Earth.
		Her eyes are keen and sparkling like the cold river stream, her hands are gnarled like the twisted roots of ancient trees, and her skin is old and wrinkled like the scattered leaves of autumn.
	www.adf.org /rituals/celtic/samhain/cailleach-invocation.html (350 words)

	Cailleach
		Cailleach's body is of a suede-like soft fabric, Winter-inspired in its hues of blue.
		Her hair is the bright white of fresh snow, and her necklace is of rough clear crystals which look like ice.
		Her skin is the traditional blue shade referred to in all of her legends.
	www.dancinggoddessdolls.com /id79.htm (107 words)

	Cailleach Australian Shepherds » News
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	Definition of cailleach - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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