Crossposted to crossoverqueen (my normal journal).

Sorry to clog your feeds up with my constant posts, but you know how I've been obsessed with Spring Awakening, the musical I desperately want to be in? I've been talking about this among three forums plus LJ to make sense of it all, which means "KEEPING TRACK OF WHO I'VE TOLD WHAT? LOL DON'T BE SILLY ( Read more... )

Anyone know a good place to find these two Brigidine texts (with English translation, or English only)?

Ta.

Reading about wooden figures offered to the waters in hopes, perhaps, of healing, and of the introduction of severed heads to waters at times, I wonder if anyone has come across hints of these associated with Brigit--however remote a hint or leap, I'm interested. I'm curious what was hoped by placing the head in the waters, too ( Read more... )

Heyo ( Read more... )

I mentioned on this site a while ago that I would be editing an anthology of Brigit poetry and prayers (old and new), beginning around Imbolc this year. I still intend to do the book, but the project is unavoidably delayed; not sure for how long. (At most a year, I would think.)

If anyone is interested in submitting, the email address is . You can ( Read more... )

 A question for you all.

I am looking at Ella Young's 1910 book Celtic Wonder Tales on the Sacred Texts site , She gives Brigit an active role in some stories that look based more or less on old tales. My hunch is that she was starting from old tales and then branching off on her own. But does anyone know more about it?

The illustrations by Maud ( Read more... )

 I was reading a book earlier this evening, The Book of Devi by Bulbul Sharma, and there were a couple of things that reminded me of Brigit, the Morrigan, and simply the telling of the Irish tales--such as the strange transformations that Cu Chulainn undergoes when going into a battle frenzy. I remember reading in the Celtic Consciousness years ago ( Read more... )

Hello ( Read more... )

Hi all. I have been reading back in the archives with great interest, but couldn't find a post discussing this in specific. I have of course heard of this idea of Brighid and the Cailleach being sort of alternate "faces" of the other or being otherwise related, but I have not found anything about that from a source that I would be really ( Read more... )

Adapted from the Carmina Gadelica:

33. Coisrig Cadail / Sleep Consecration

I lie down to-night
With fair Boann and with her Son,
With gentile Aengus,
And with comfort beneath her mantle. 
I lie down with Dagda,
And Dagda will lie down with me,
I will not lie down with Bres,
Nor shall Bres lie down with me.

O Good Father of the poor,
Help me ( Read more... )