Today may I speak according to Thy will, O God ( Read more... )

Punxsutawny Pete, the premier groundhog of the USofA, has spoken, Six more weeks of winter (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/02/02/ ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I finished {... finished? HA!} ... coding the lexicon on which I've been working for some time.

Over the years, as I've come across ... ummm, interesting words, I've been saving them in one of four or five places. Which meant, of course, that when I would look for a specific word, I risked looking in the WRONG place. So, this past ( Read more... )

I want to listne to this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wt043

I've been posting Gaelic lessons to my puxill journal taken from a textbook published in 1912. As there are only 16 people on the f-list (one of whom is deceased and not interested in learning Scottish Gaelic when alive - I can't imagine that she's any more interested now, assuming that she is checking the internet from her current location) ... ( Read more... )

I posted Torr-a-bhuilg to my puxill lj last night. In the Gaelic because puxill is primarily for Gaelic. When I posted the story here earlier, I became curious and wondered what Torr a' Bhuilg actually looked like, so I Googled the name (which means, basically, mound of the bag or belly, or in other words - Belly Hill - which sounds a bit like a ( Read more... )

{from Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English
collected from oral tradition by Rev. James MacDougall (1910)}

( The Changeling of Torr-a-builg )

I once read a story in which a postman encountered one of the Little People late one evening and was only terrified into running for his life when the Other addressed him in English. According to the story, "everyone" knew that the Fey who spoke English were the worst of the lot ( Read more... )

(This is a page from a coloring book I've created for a friend.)

This is a pictsie.
Seo luspardan.


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It snowed last night - there is a light layer lying atop the flowers & grass in the yard. The Gaels called this the time of ...the Cailleach or Old Woman, which lasted a week, - 12th to 18th April. The grass has by this time begun to grow, and the Cailleach, representing a hostile and withering influence, sits down and tries hard with her ( Read more... )