#theritualofGlámDícenn

Ali Isaac

Apr 25, 20166 min read

speaking in tongues of fire

In ancient Ireland, a poet was expected to be able to raise a satire so powerful as to raise blemishes, ie boils on the face of the accused.

The Ritual of the Crane Dance Curse in Irish Mythology

Ali Isaac

Nov 16, 20156 min read

The Ritual of the Crane Dance Curse in Irish Mythology

the corrghuineacht, and is a form of magic-working, the power of which is intensified when practised in a particular stance.

Ali Isaac is an author and blogger specialising in Irish mythology. Through word and image, she tries to draw the human story from Ireland's landscape and tumbled stones, with a particular focus on the women history has abandoned, and legend only half remembers.

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