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	Cailleach - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters
		The Cailleach Beara is ever-renewing and passes through many lifetimes going from old age to youth or flesh to stone in a cyclic fashion.
		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 the folklore of Ireland and Scotland, the term cailleach was used to denote the last sheaf of the harvest season.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Cailleach (3547 words)

	Cailleach
		In Goidelic mythology, especially Scotland, Cailleach was the "Mother of All".
		In art, she was depicted as a wizened crone with bear teeth and a boar's tusks[?].
		Each year, the first farmer to finish his harvest made a corn dolly representing Cailleach from part of his crop.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cailleach.html (100 words)

	A View of the Cailleach \| The Druid Network
		Cailleach Bheur, as the goddess of winter, brings the snows and frosts with her magical staff which she taps upon the ground, causing it to freeze.
		Cailleach Beara represents the crone or hag in Irish mythology, to be respected as she has shaped the land by carrying boulders in her skirt and dropping them where she willed, similar to Scottish myth.
		Cailleach is the patron of deer, and some myths tell of her herding deer and milking them as well as protecting them from the dangers of hunters.
	druidnetwork.org /deity/deity/articles/joanna (451 words)

	Dark Goddesses- Specific Information on Cailleach
		Cailleach's white rod, or slachdan, made of birch, bramble, willow or broom, is a Druidic rod which gives Her power over the weather and the elements.
		Cailleach is connected to the 'bean sidhe' or banshee (which means 'supernatural woman') who are the wild women of the Fey.
		Cailleach Beara inhabits the Beara peninsula on the Cork-Kerry border on the north side of Bantry Bay, Scotland.
	www.dutchie.org /Tracy/goddess/caill.html (824 words)

	Cailleach Bheur
		Cailleach Beara is not the only name one may know the Cailleach as within the Irish tradition, but it is definitely the most common one.
		Cailleach Bheur may be the most known from the Scottish tradition, but the people of Isle of Man have their share of stories and belief surrounding her.
		Connecting the Cailleach's mission to protect the deer, and her role as the goddess of winter -the time when the land is the least fertile and everything appears dead, could mean that she is the one controlling fertility and protecting it so that it doesn't spoil or become over-used.
	www.geocities.com /caer_annwfnn/cailleach.htm (3476 words)

	Inner Light Coven's Celtic Lore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brigit was concerned to be the goddess of new beginnings and birth, being represented by the lamb and the sheering of sheep in the spring.
		The corn dolly was called the Cailleach Beara, and it was considered that she was the one who had helped to fertilize and harvest the crops.
		Cailleach means "Old Wife." The historical figure of Beara was actually a Spanish princess who married an Irish man by the name of Eoghan Mo'r of Magh Nuadat.
	hometown.aol.com /innerlightcoven2/celtic.html (2856 words)

	Mythmaking: The Cailleach
		The Cailleach is a crone goddess, usually depicted dressed entirely in grey with a dun-coloured plaid wrapped around her shoulders and carrying a wooden staff.
		As the weather witch, the Cailleach is the sharp and biting wind (‘Bheur’, one of the additions to her name in Scotland, means ‘sharp’), the bearer of storms and in her most prominent role, the bringer of snow and frost.
		Furthermore, the Cailleach is said to have been so fearful in appearance that she scared animals into hiding throughout the cold season, thus ensuring their survival, and also protected all of Scotlands’ deer by ensuring that enough ground was left untouched by frost for them to graze on.
	myth-making.blogspot.com /2007/07/i-n-wonder-tales-from-scottish-myth-and.html (1906 words)

	Inner Light Coven's Celtic Lore
		Brigit was concerned to be the goddess of new beginnings and birth, being represented by the lamb and the sheering of sheep in the spring.
		The corn dolly was called the Cailleach Beara, and it was considered that she was the one who had helped to fertilize and harvest the crops.
		Cailleach means "Old Wife." The historical figure of Beara was actually a Spanish princess who married an Irish man by the name of Eoghan Mo'r of Magh Nuadat.
	members.aol.com /innerlightcoven2/celtic.html (2856 words)

	DeDanaan » 2005 » May
		Cailleach Beara, (Beare, Bera) : (kill-ogh vayra) “Crone of Beare”; The ancient mountain mother of the south-west of Ireland.
		South-west Munster was believed to be the abode of the dead and here the Cailleach had lived for countless ages so that her successive husbands died of old age while she enjoyed endless youth.
		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.
	dedanaan.com /2005/05/page/3 (1247 words)

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		CAILLEACH, CHAILLICH BEUR, CAILLEACH BHEURR, CAILLEACH BEARA, a sharp old wife; an ice-cold nun, a veiled woman of uncertain virtue and motives; the "Winter Hag," the "Bear-Woman." From caille, a veil + beur, sharp, pointed, clear, icy, wintry, gibe, jeer.
		The Cailleach was the huntress-goddess of the Gaels, the creature given charge of the three months of the "little sun," from Samhuinn (November 1) until the Imbolg (February 2).
		The line storm, or Cailleach's broom (sometimes entitled Sheila's broom), which occurs about March 17, is thought to "break the back of winter" and by May 1 the Cailleach is forced "to throw her hammer beneath the mistletoe." Our pagan ancestors understood that this implied her reincarnation as the summer-goddess.
	rodneymackay.com /webarchives/December/caill.html (955 words)

	Celtic Goddess Cailleach Beara
		The Cailleach Beara is one of the oldest living mythological beings associated with Ireland.
		The Cailleach Beara is ever-renewing and passes through many lifetimes going from old age to youth in a cyclic fashion.
		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)

	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.
		The Cailleach is also featured in the sovereignty myths, such as the one found in the telling of the Nine Hostages.
	www.shadowdrake.com /cailleach.html (1584 words)

	The Cailleach Beara or the Hag of Beara:: OS grid V6453 :: Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square!
		V6453 : The Cailleach Beara or the Hag of Beara
		The Cailleach Beara or the Hag of Beara
		Legend has it that this rock represents the fossilized remains of the face of the Cailleach Beara awaiting her husband Manannan, God of the Sea, to return to her.
	www.geograph.org.uk /photo/268026 (121 words)

	The Cailleach (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Beara, or Bheur, is sometimes pronounced as Vay-ra or Vare.
		She is sometimes pictured as having a blue face, with one eye in the center of her forehead.
		However, one night she forgot to do this, and the water flowed down the mountain in to the valley where every creature and person was killed.
	www.the-night.net /wicca/cailleach.htm (584 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)

	Library
		In Irish lore, the Cailleach (pronounced "kyle-yeukh") descends from the mountains at Samhain to rule the land until Beltaine.
		The Hawk of Achill says to her "You are as old as the old grandmother, long ago, who ate the apples." She is older than Fintan, who is supposed to be the longest-lived human.
		Beara is a peninsula on the southern coast of Ireland in West Munster, County Cork.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/HomesiteRoom/10548 (1087 words)

	Welcome to the Maps and Clans page:
		The Cailleach is the wise woman, who lives on the mountain, overlooks the ordinary lpeople below, takes care of the dark primal areas of existance so that they can live happy undisturbed lives.
		The Cailleach is not the Crone of wicca, nor does she take her place in any maiden/mother/crone trilogy.
		She is in herself many things, and yet one; a cailleach is also capable of appearing young and beautiful, or as a Fury, or as herself, even as a Hare or deer.
	itw.lilirose.net /rvnsprwldr/maps.htm (2544 words)

	Archaelogical Sites
		She is mentioned in verse by Padraig Pearse "Mise Éire Siné mé ná an Cailleach Béara" The rock lies beside the coast road from Eyeries to Ardgroom on the Kilcatherine Peninsula.
		Follow the Beara Way from town, behind the Millbrook Bar, take the first turn to your left and continue on up it until you come to a gate.
		Follow the coast road from Eyeries to Ardgroom, you come across it soon after passing the Hag of Beara (above) The cemtary is thought to have been built by the same monks who built the beehive monastery on Skellig Michael.
	www.bearatourism.com /archaelogical.html (607 words)

	The Schools' Folklore Scheme: A Valuable Primary Source for the Local Historian: Oral Literature
		The older members of the community refer to her as the ‘Cailleach Béalátha.’ She is reputed to have lived in Bealaha fort, a well preserved but densely overgrown roadside ringfort.
		The ‘witch’s seat’ is a white-painted stone with a hollow on a roadside fence and rounded landstones of varying sizes in nearby fields are alleged to have fallen from her apron as she flew across the sky.
		Like the Cailleach Bhéarra she ‘can be seen as a version of a supernatural female wilderness figure peripheral to and usually inimical to the human world.’ [13].
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/schools_folklore/oral_literature.htm (548 words)

	No sir -- away! A papaya war is on
		Mr Beara is unsure of it’s sartorial merits and the silver sparkly things send Beastie into a frenzy and he attempts to chew my shoulder off.
		I offered to hand feed the still-sniffly Mr Beara squares of the raspberry-flavoured chocolate bar, but he was able to reach out a feeble arm and feed himself.
		Mr Beara is entering his second week with a head-cold that is refusing to budge, while I am recovering from a mysterious attack of the vapours.
	cailleach-beara.livejournal.com (3645 words)

	Following Celtic Ways: Incarnations of the Beara Breifne Way
		The word "cailleach" pronounced in Scotland as "kyack" like any ancient Gaelic word has all kinds of interpretations which sadly include hag and witch.
		Loughcrew was once part of Bréifne and Cailleach Bhéarra was the name of the "brighid" goddess wife of High King Ollamh, speculated around 900 BC, who wanted to call this island country Fodhla, one of the triple human entities of goddess Morrigan, Brighid and Bhéarra's mother.
		Along this long march starting with about 1000 people several of them stopped and settled along the way and became known as "bearas" When Donal finally reached Bréifne to be greeted by the O'Rourkes he was only accompanied by 35 people.
	www.celticways.com /blog/2007/04/incarnations-of-beara-breifne-way.html (557 words)

	page CA-TO-CEL of celtic mythology
		She originally appeared as a triune goddess with Cailleach Bolus and Cailleach Corca Duibhne.
		She was said to have also been known as Cailleach Bui, wife of Lugh, the god of arts and crafts.
		Beara is a peninsula on the Cork-Kerry border.
	www.celtic.mythology.50megs.com /ca---cel.html (1278 words)

	The Millenium Crone Brid Murphy
		But now she announces that the crone, the cailleach, the hag and the witch - all are marking a comeback.
		I wanted to explore how it had happened that the Crone, from being regarded as the holy one, the Cailleach, the crowned one (coron), the Wise woman, came to end up in modern dictionaries as a 'wrinkled, ugly old woman, a hag'...no explanation of the fact that the word 'hag' came from heilig or holy.
		Another, reminiscent of the importance of the wisdom of the cailleach, was the bringing of the last sheaf of corn from the field to the house.
	www.aislingmagazine.com /aislingmagazine/articles/TAM28/Crone.html (1876 words)

	Cailleach
		Although reference is made to her beauty, she is also described as having an eye in the middle of a blue-fl face, red teeth, and matted hair.
		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.
		The Cailleach was reborn each Samhain and went about smiting the Earth to blight growth and then calling down the snow.
	www.blueroebuck.com /cailleach_bera.htm (2080 words)

	Celtic Gods and Goddesses
		Known by many names, Brighid's three aspects are (1) Fire of Inspiration as patroness of poetry, (2) Fire of the Hearth, as patroness of healing and fertility, and (3) Fire of the Forge, as patroness of smithcraft and martial arts.
		Brighid's festival is Imbolc, celebrated on or around February 1 when she ushers Spring to the land after The Cailleach's Winter reign.
		This mid-Winter feast commences as the ewes begin to lactate and is the start of the new agricultural cycle.
	www.wisegorilla.com /images/celtic/gods.html (3465 words)

	The Hazel Nut
		Cailleach Beara or The Cailleach Búi: {kaw-lik Bay-ra} or {kay-lik bwee} The Hag of Beara.
		Beara is a region along the borders of Counties Cork and Kerry.
		It was the Cailleach Corca Duibhne who boiled the Cauldron of Creation and gave birth to the Naurí {naw-ree}, the Seven Ancient Worms (Great Serpents or Dragons), who were spawned in the Cauldron from seven of her golden strands of hair.
	www.faeriefaith.net /HazelNut/Issue23.html (14864 words)

	Final Fantasy XI - Cailleach Bheur - FFXIclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also called Cailleach or Cailleach Beara, she was a sorceress depicted as an elderly woman with the teeth of a bear and tusks from a boar in Irish and Scottish mythology.
		Cailleach means "old woman" and Bheur means "sharp" or "shrill", a term used to apply to the weather.
		She is associated with winter time and is considered the personification of Winter in the British Isles.
	wiki.ffxiclopedia.org /Cailleach_Bheur (150 words)

	Edwin Courtenay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also associated with the Elder is The Cailleach, also known as Cailleach Beara and the Crone of Beare.
		An ancient Goddess of the pre-Celtic people, The Cailleach was thought to control the Seasons and the Weather, as well as being the Goddess of Earth, Sky, Moon and Sun.
		Animals connected to the Elder are the Black Horse, the Badger and the Raven.
	www.edwincourtenay.co.uk /html/ruismoon.html (542 words)

	Welcome to the Maps and Clans page:
		The Cailleach is the wise woman, who lives on the mountain, overlooks the ordinary lpeople below, takes care of the dark primal areas of existance so that they can live happy undisturbed lives.
		The Cailleach is not the Crone of wicca, nor does she take her place in any maiden/mother/crone trilogy.
		She is in herself many things, and yet one; a cailleach is also capable of appearing young and beautiful, or as a Fury, or as herself, even as a Hare or deer.
	www.geocities.com /rvnsprwldr/maps.htm (2544 words)

	GODTALK
		In the mythology of the Beara Peninsula the great Cailleach also known as the Hag of Beara resides on rock overlooking Coulagh Bay.
		The Cailleach or 'Hag' means a wise woman whose dwelling place is the landscape of the Beara Peninsula.
		After having lived seven lives, she is transformed into this rock, awaiting her husband Manannan Mac Lir, the God of the Sea to return.
	godtalktv.org /gallery70.html (85 words)

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